American Chemical, owned by the Kingston polygamist family, was fined $27,000 for dumping chemicals in ponds, sewers and ...

City leaders and west-siders went for a walk along the Jordan River Tuesday night and discussed the future of the waterway ...

He points to a proposal to further dam and divert the Bear River — the tributary that provides over half of the Great Salt Lake’s freshwater and is already riddled with canals, ditches and ...

Utah Lake is a freshwater lake in the Utah Valley. The Jordan River is the lake's only outlet, and a tributary of the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake, which is the largest saltwater lake in ...

Water rights to the Bear River, the largest tributary of the lake, are shared with Idaho and Wyoming. Then, again, there’s climate change, deepening drought and accelerating evaporation.

It looks like a dying lake,” says Utah’s Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed. “We need to avoid it at all costs.” Docks to a marina on Antelope Island are stuck in the mud after water ...

In 2022, then-Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson convened a summit on Great Salt Lake where Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) spoke about what the federal government might do to help avert the impending catastrophe.

Utah’s record-setting snowpack this past winter did Great Salt Lake a favor. It gave the lake a water level boost, but not enough to remove it from the danger zone. More water is needed to lift ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah researchers are working to restore Green River tributaries with a host of strategies including reintroducing beavers and removing invasive plants.

The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands and the Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust announced Monday that they've awarded a little more than $5.4 million toward projects over ...

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.