No. The 1847 pioneers, for instance, “did not pull handcarts into the Great Basin,” Reeve writes. “The handcart companies ...

As Colorado River states race to finish a deal, water users face a resource altered by drought and climate change.

Bonneville Speedway is on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, offering an extremely flat and firm surface for racing at ...

Environmental regulators have launched an investigation into a heavily trafficked lake below the Cirque of the Towers in the ...

Behind every one of those drops is a team working around the clock to mix, load, and send aircraft back into the fight,” BLM ...

On a recent flight home to Salt Lake City, I gazed out the window and shuddered. The ground below was riddled with cracks. Sporadic green pools dotted the dry earth where vast water had once been.

For the first time in more than 70 years, a rare earth minerals mine broke ground in the United States last Friday. The Brook Mine, owned by Ramaco Resources, near Sheridan, Wyoming, is also the first ...

The National Preparedness Level has increased to four (PL4) as of Saturday, July 12, according to the National Interagency ...

Dust from Sevier Dry Lake in southern Utah blows particulate as far north as Salt Lake City, but it also holds a vital mineral for growing high-value crops.

Leaders of the state agency that oversees the health of the Great Salt Lake say they're concerned after the lake's levels peaked about 1½ feet below its highest point last year.

Streams empty themselves into inland lakes in different parts of the Basin, the most important of these being familiar to everyone as the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

Energy & Industry As the Great Salt Lake recedes, industry rises Utah’s Inland Port Authority works with local officials to boost development, but residents feel ignored.