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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hikers walk among the wildflowers in Albion Meadow, on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.

Six off-the-beaten-path places to find Utah’s wildflower blooms

By Julie Jag | May 1, 2025, 7:50 p.m.

(Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteers work at the St George dinosaur site on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

A Utah city is pulling the plug on plans to build a power station on top of a premier fossil site. Here’s why.

By Mark Eddington | May 1, 2025, 10:50 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Darcy Lytle, a recreation technician with the U.S. Forest Service attaches a road closure sign at the winter gate in Mill Creek Canyon on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Starting Thursday, the road beyond the winter gate is slated to be closed for nearly two years in Phase 1 of a project to shore up the road, create a bike lane and add new parking lots.

These popular Utah canyon trails will be cut off to most users until fall 2026

By Julie Jag | April 30, 2025, 3:58 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Construction of a new green-energy system at International Power Project's coal-fired power plant in Delta on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. EnergySolutions, Intermountain Power Agency and the state plan want to bring a small nuclear reactor to the area using existing infrastructure at the Intermountain Power Project.

‘The state is robbing us’: A potential nuclear project in rural Utah highlights concern about new energy law

By Matt Ward | Millard County Chronicle Progress | Anastasia Hufham | April 30, 2025, 5:34 p.m.

(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) Heap leach pads and ponds at the Lisbon Valley Copper Mine in San Juan County on Nov. 12, 2020.

Trump admin chose to ‘streamline’ permitting for a Utah mining project

By Anastasia Hufham | April 29, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cloud cover over Red Mountain in Washington County, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

Gov. Spencer Cox declares a state of emergency due to drought in over half of Utah’s counties

By Anastasia Hufham | April 24, 2025, 10:35 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Bears Ears buttes inside Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024.

Trump may shrink 2 Utah national monuments to expand mining and drilling in the West, per report

By Anastasia Hufham | April 24, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

(Office of Gov. Spencer Cox) Kelly Pehrson, Gov. Spencer Cox's pick to lead the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. Pehrson was previously UDAF's deputy commissioner and the San Juan County administrator.

Despite a history of controversy, Spencer Cox says this is the ‘trusted’ man who should lead a state department

By Anastasia Hufham | April 21, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Bureau of Land Management office in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

Utah leaders sued to stop a Biden conservation rule they said would harm ranchers. Now the Trump administration has taken action.

By Anastasia Hufham | April 17, 2025, 3:04 p.m.