Secrets of the Great Salt Lake will showcase the remarkable story of the lake’s formation and its importance to the people and wildlife of Utah. Utah’s Great Salt Lake is drying up, foretelling a dire ...

Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard. People wade in the waters of the Great Salt Lake at Antelope ...

Note to readers • Leia Larsen is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues.

The expense would come from tamping down the dust from the dried lake bed, which contains heavy metals, PFAS and other chemicals. Utah could find itself on the hook for billions of dollars in ...

A troubled plant on the Great Salt Lake once supplied America with magnesium. Now it may shut down for good, with large ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A remote stretch of northern Utah, where cattle graze on expansive ranches and elk roam in the wild, could become the place where U.S. production of a crucial mineral is ...