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Opinion: How Utah’s farmers are securing our future
Some believe Utah’s farmers are reckless water consumers, but this ignores history and reality. If agriculture fails, so does ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel3d
Dwindling water supply, legal questions push Colorado River into ‘wildly uncharted territory’
Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major ...
Utah had a ‘relatively quiet’ year of water lawmaking. Two of its most important lakes are still struggling.
Before this year’s legislative session began, House Speaker Mike Schultz asked lawmakers "to take a break" from passing major ...
The prettiest places in the U.S. that you’ll need a lottery permit to visit
The Wave may be one of the oldest and most familiar examples of land managers instituting a system to protect special places ...
ABC4 Utah on MSN6d
Remains found in Grand County identified as man missing for nearly nine months
The remains of a man found along the Colorado River in San Juan County have been confirmed to belong to a man who was ...
KLAS Las Vegas on MSN5d
Snowpack at 90% of normal as ‘lean’ year projected for Southern Nevada
Current snowpack levels in the Upper Colorado River Basin hit 90% of normal on Friday, better than where snowpack stood on Monday, when it had declined to 86%. It’s been a volatile end to ...
Remains of missing Texas man found nine months after Moab flood
The Grand County Sheriff’s Office confirmed April 3 that human remains found March 26 in San Juan County, along the Colorado ...
Boise State Public Radio6d
New law gives Utah’s water agent power to negotiate with other Mountain West states
Utah lawmakers have given the state more voice in negotiations over the Colorado and Bear rivers. The move, however, has some ...
KPCW6d
State water report shows a divided Utah
Recent storms in the north have brought the statewide snow water equivalent to 82% of normal while southern Utah continues to ...
Aspen Public Radio6d
How the ‘Magna Carta’ of U.S. environmental law works in the West, and how the Trump administration wants to change it
NEPA regulates how federal agencies assess and report the environmental impacts of big projects, and provides for public ...
Sacramento Bee6d
‘Much needed closure.’ Remains of Texas outdoorsy couple identified, UT cops say
The remains of an adventurous couple from Texas who vanished last year in Utah were found and identified ... until his body was found along the Colorado River almost 40 miles from the site ...