A wildfire broke out on the mountainside above south Provo around 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon and continued to burn Sunday night. The fire was initially ignited in Buckley Draw Canyon south of Slate Canyon around 5 p.m. By 9 p.m., it had burned 400 acres and was 0% contained, according to a U.S. ...
An environmental group is suing the Bureau of Land Management over the agency’s approval of a mining project in Utah’s West Desert. It’s the latest development in several years of litigation and back-and-forth over the Sevier Playa Potash Project, which would give Peak Minerals ...
What if the area you were hoping to hunt this fall is now on fire? That’s a reality for the roughly 1,200 people hoping to hunt the Monroe unit in Sevier and Piute counties, now scorched by the 61,500-acre Monroe Canyon Fire. It’s the largest fire in Utah this year. As of Monday it was ...
It's no surprise that it has been a busy and devastating wildfire season in Utah. According to UtahFireInfo.gov, as of Sunday morning there had been 712 total fires in the state which had burned 135,899 total acres. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed an executive order on July 31 declaring a ...
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said there will likely be a special session this fall that could address the Great Salt Lake, which has recently fallen to dangerously low levels. Schultz told the Great Salt Lake Collaborative on Thursday he’s asking the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they’re spurring the formation of “fire clouds” that can create their own erratic weather systems. In ...
