OGDEN — The public will have a big opportunity to learn about sustainability and resilience this coming week. Weber State University's 17th annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit, or ISS, is set for March 19-20 at the Shepherd Union Building on the WSU campus. Bonnie Christiansen, ...
This year’s boating season report on invasive species decontamination efforts at Lake Powell and other Utah waterbodies registered larger numbers than in 2024. Technicians from different Utah, Arizona and federal offices inspected over 288,500 boats and performed 6,509 decontaminations of ...
It’s been almost two months since congressional Republicans passed their budget bill, nicknamed the “big, beautiful bill,” which had sweeping impacts on grants and funding for state programs. Now, Utah officials are starting to see those impacts. On Wednesday, officials from Utah’s ...
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 ...
