(Salt Lake City, UT) — The state Senate committee is giving its approval to the man selected to be the first Great Salt Lake commissioner. Brian Steed was confirmed by the Senate Natural Resources Committee yesterday. Steed will be in charge of implementing policies designed to put water back into […]
HOOPER, Utah (AP) — The Great Salt Lake’s third-largest island, Fremont Island, was once the possible destination for thousands of new homes but will now be preserved in its natural state after being sold to an undisclosed nonprofit group. Land Advisors Organization’s Salt Lake City office announced the sale of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Great Salt Lake is shrinking every year, but experts are implementing measures to slow the water loss, a new report said. The Great Salt Lake Advisory Council says the water depth has dropped about 11 feet (3.35 meters) over the past 10 years, KSTU-TV reported Sunday. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Bold water conservation strategies and changes in long-standing law and water policies are needed to slow the alarming shrinking of the Great Salt Lake, according to recommendation released Tuesday by an advisory panel. Upstream diversions have long prevented vast quantities from replenishing the lake, reducing […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kayleigh Davis was hiking on a trail Friday evening at Antelope Island State Park in Utah chasing the sunset, when she was suddenly, violently, flipped into the air by a bison. When she looked up, the bison was hovering over her. The 22-year-old woman screamed […]
ANTELOPE ISLAND STATE PARK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 22-year-old woman hiking at Antelope Island State Park suffered a broken leg and a laceration on her other leg when she was charged by a bison. Officials say the woman was on a trail and heading toward a companion when […]
TREMONTON, Utah (AP) — Authorities report a minor earthquake shook parts of Box Elder County in northern Utah on Tuesday. County spokesman Mitch Zundel said there were many reports of people feeling the quake of magnitude 3.9 at 10:15 a.m. MDT but that there was no immediate report of damage […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of three kayakers rescued after having to swim while being battered by waves on Utah’s Great Salt Lake says he thought he was “a dead man” after his boat capsized. But Weston Barnett told KSL-TV that the idea of drowning was quickly replaced with the fear […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Searchers have rescued three kayakers who lost their boats and were forced to swim while being battered by 8-foot (2.4-meter) waves on the Great Salt Lake in northern Utah. Davis County authorities says the last two kayakers were found alive early Friday morning and are […]
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — The Air Force is about to start a series of detonations of surplus rocket motors and sold fuel for ballistic missiles on the Utah Test and Training Range in western Utah. The sprawling range is located between Great Salt Lake and the Nevada […]
