Utah's mountains, valleys under a 'soup'
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Utah's world-class mountain peaks have been barely visible at times from the floor of the Salt Lake valley. A winter storm that won't quit? No, it's nasty pollution that just won't blow away.
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Just a half hour before an avalanche outside a Utah ski resort trapped as many as five people under 30 feet of snow, skier Jess Fleig sensed that something was amiss.
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What started as a few seconds of terror for a driver in Utah has become a set of photos so unbelievable they're making their rounds on the Web's myth-busting circuit.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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High above a landscape of canyons and shadows, veteran pilot Jim Herd sees a tiny flash on a mountainside. A mirror? A piece of wreckage? A closer look reveals a prospector's small mine, the reflection most likely coming from metal fencing or some broken glass. It was just another false alarm during a week of mysteries and dashed hopes in the search for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett.
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet.
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LOGAN, Utah - Aspen trees have been dying off, leaving dwindling numbers of the white-barked fixture of the Western mountain landscape. Nobody is quite sure why.
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Western winters are getting shorter because of dust kicked up by urban and agricultural development, a University of Utah researcher said.
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By Brier Dudley, Seattle Times  Feb. 5--When hikers get lost on snowy mountains in the Northwest, it's gripping because the drama happens in our backyard.
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The U.S. Forest Service will be gathering public comment this week on several rivers in Utah, Wasatch and Summit counties that have been proposed to be included in the National Wild and Scenic River system.
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OREM - For someone who lit a firecracker of controversy that has sparked across Utah Valley and Utah at large, Joe Vogel is surprisingly demure.
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At least three people have been killed in weekend avalanches in Utah's backcountry, and a fourth man remained missing.
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By Paul Rolly, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 11--Sometimes, it ain't easy being Greek in Utah.    Father Michael Kouremetis found that out recently at a Holladay City  Planning Commission meeting.
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Some nonbelievers may roll their eyes at the mention of Soap Lake's reputed healing powers, a gift of geology that left an embarrassment of minerals in its saline waters and underlying black mud.
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By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret Morning News  LEHI -- A plan that would protect an additional 42 acres of Utah Lake wetlands could add 45 new names to the list of homeowners who could lose their property when the proposed Mountain View Corridor road is constructed.
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Due to a drought in Utah, Glen Canyon is on its way back Â viewable in much of its former glory.
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By Brice Wallace Deseret Morning News  Utah economic developers have a SURE thing for companies looking at putting operations in the state.