The timing and intensity of desert monsoons are notoriously hard to predict. But signs point toward some rainy relief for Utah communities in the grip of drought.

There are more than 800 square miles of exposed lakebed, and researchers are just beginning to understand how pervasive the dust problem is.

Foodscaping Utah, an Ogden-based nonprofit, recruits volunteers to help with the work and asks participants to donate some of what they grow to the community in return.

The Temple of Sinawava dam, built in 1957, kept native fish like flannelmouth suckers pinned downstream on the Virgin River.

The basin has lost 27.8 million acre-feet of groundwater since 2003. That's roughly the volume of Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir.

Environmental reviews of mining operations normally take months or years. But after President Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency,” it took just 11 days for the Bureau of Land Management to approve the Velvet-Wood uranium mine's plan to resume operations in San Juan County.

All of the gains the Great Salt Lake made over the winter will likely dissipate by the end of summer. Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed urges Utahns to be mindful of their water usage.

La Niña is over, but its counterpart, El Niño, hasn’t started either. The in-between conditions expected this summer may make predicting Utah’s seasonal weather extra tricky.

The amendment proposed by Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy would have sold more than 10,000 acres of federal land near St. George to local governments.

The Center for Biological Diversity sued in 2023 and secured a settlement last year that forced the government to decide by May whether to list the fish under the Endangered Species Act.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it is now saving 8 million gallons of water a year at Temple Square.

Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming all have seen rates at least tripled between 2018 and 2023, according to a Mountain West News Bureau analysis. In Utah's Summit County, cancellations jumped from fewer than 100 to 316 in the same period.