A new report says saving the Great Salt Lake is Utah's "moonshot," to do the improbable and something no state has done ...

Central Utah Water Conservancy District officials announced last month they expected to send about 70,000 acre-feet of Utah ...

The Salt Lake Tribune analyzed dozens of water rights applications submitted in the two years following a moratorium on most new appropriations within the Great Salt Lake Basin. Here's what we found.

A run of warm weather this week will give way to cooler temperatures beginning on Friday before valley rain and mountain snow ...

The state still has some guardrails — about $10 million will go toward leasing, which allows the state to pay water rights holders in the Great Salt Lake basin to set aside some of their water for the ...

Utah Legislative session is over, and we can share with you what happened and what didn’t related to water and the Great Salt ...

are in the Great Salt Lake Basin. A UPS sorting facility (center, shaped like the head of a fork) in UIPA’s original jurisdictional area in Salt Lake County. Credit: Russel Albert Daniels/High ...

The rest will be used to secure seasonal water rights leases from farmers, business and other water rights holders in the Great Salt Lake Basin. “In truth, it’s given us some time to figure ...

When the Great Salt Lake reached an all-time low three years ago, it generated a new concern about one of the few species ...

A state judge today paved the way for a landmark public trust suit over Utah’s failure to protect the Great Salt Lake to move forward, despite the objections of state officials. Judge Laura Scott ...

In the Great Salt Lake Basin, there are 418,000 acres of irrigated farmland and Utah has grown more alfalfa each year since 1950, the report said. Over 70% of water diversions in Utah are used for ...

The Great Salt Lake and the north end of Stansbury Island in Tooele County on Jan. 2. Utah leaders say they expect some additional Great Salt Lake gains after a "remarkably average" snowpack ...