Photo gallery: Hundreds of Utahns rally for clean air
Though a snowstorm pushed them inside, a few hundred Utahns rallied at the Utah Capitol on Saturday in support of making clean air a priority in this year’s Legislature, which convenes Monday. The...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists: Coal ash landfill near Price must be moved
Three environmental groups have joined forces to call for Rocky Mountain Power to relocate a landfill which released more than 2,000 cubic yards of coal ash into the Price River last summer. The...
View ArticleSalt Lake City has too much control over watersheds, Utah official says
For a century, state law has granted Utah’s largest cities authority over land use in the watersheds they tap for water. Salt Lake City had learned the hard way that grazing and building should be...
View ArticleWith water demand slowing, Bear River development in Utah may be delayed
State managers say new projections on water demand suggest it may be possible to delay the construction of the Bear River Development Project. New, lower estimates of Utah’s future population,...
View ArticleLawmakers hope to create Utah state parks at Hole-in-the-Rock, Little Sahara
Utah lawmakers are angling to create two new state parks on federal lands, one at Little Sahara in Juab County and the other at Hole-in-the-Rock, the famous cleft in a cliff over the Colorado River...
View ArticleNorth Salt Lake officials calm about movement in landslide area
After a recent influx of precipitation, North Salt Lake officials and geologists detected movement in the area of a 2014 landslide that destroyed a home and threatened others, but authorities are not...
View ArticleCan Utah's Mike Noel run the BLM, an agency he despises?
As Utah state Rep. Mike Noel actively courts support for his bid to become the next director of the Bureau of Land Management, conservation and outdoor business interests are questioning the Kanab...
View ArticleAlberty: If you want to see Utah's Natural Bridges at its best, go now
High on the Cedar Mesa, on the wedge of sandstone that hovers between White and Armstrong canyons, Natural Bridges National Monument appears to have been frozen for a season. A blanket of snow settles...
View ArticlePhotos: Students rally for clean air on Utah's Capitol Hill
Hundreds of students rallied Thursday on Capitol Hill on behalf of improving Utah’s air quality. Students from schools including the Madeleine Choir School, Rowland Hall and Judge Memorial Catholic...
View ArticleUtah feeding struggling deer after relentless snowfall buries forage
The main cause of mule deer mortality in Utah is not hunters, predators or even motor vehicles. It’s winter and this January is taking a serious toll, prompting officials to begin emergency feeding...
View ArticlePoor air quality triggers wood-burning ban on Wasatch front
Poor air quality along the Wasatch front has prompted a health warning and triggered wood-burning bans in a half-dozen counties through Tuesday. The Utah Division of Air Quality issued an “orange,”...
View ArticleQuestions about California's clout stall plan for Western power grid
Negotiations to create an 11-state regional electric grid that would include Utah have stagnated, with key players deadlocked over individual states’ authority. Utah’s largest utility company, Rocky...
View ArticlePoll shows Utahns hardly united against Bears Ears as House seeks to erase it
With protesters noisily chanting nearby Tuesday, Republican lawmakers passed controversial resolutions seeking to erase the new Bears Ears National Monument and trim Grand Staircase-Escalante. On a...
View ArticleUtah BLM agent used position to get Burning Man perks, report says
A new report by Interior Department investigators tags the Bureau of Land Management’s law enforcement supervisor for Utah with various ethical lapses concerning the 2015 Burning Man arts festival and...
View ArticleIs Colorado trying to lure Outdoor Retail show away from Utah?
With some outdoor industry executives calling for the Outdoor Retailer show to leave Utah in protest of the state’s public land policies, Colorado may be positioning itself as a possible alternative...
View ArticleAlberty: Falling down a mountain, with time to reflect
The other week I got tripped up on the Funny-Stupid Line. The Funny-Stupid Line is familiar territory to those of us who like outdoor sports but are terrible athletes. You want to try something hard,...
View ArticleGrand Staircase: Boon or bust?
A renovated social hall, a pharmacy, a dentist office, a clinic, a home center, an organic grocery, a manufacturer of natural finishes, paddle-board rentals. These are some of the businesses that have...
View ArticleSolar industry drops fight over tax credit
State lawmakers and officials from Utah’s solar industry have reached an agreement for phasing out tax credits for residents installing rooftop arrays, partly by increasing those incentives while they...
View ArticleBears Ears supporters pack hearing; Senate panel OKs rescission bill anyway
Star-filled nights and natural quiet, deafening silence. Pinyon-juniper woodlands, blackbrush, rabbitbrush, bitterbrush. Mule deer, coyote, porcupine, skunk. Diversity of soils, aka dirt. These are...
View ArticleUtah on track for one of snowiest winters in decades
Heavy snow storms in January could make this winter one of the wettest in recent history, but whether all that snow makes it to Utah reservoirs by summer depends on whether the cool, wet trend sticks...
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