SALT LAKE CITY — It is a possibility that's easy to ignore: the Great Salt Lake could dry up. But photographer Nick Pedersen is trying to put it right in front of Utahns — on a couple of billboards.

Gov. Spencer Cox recently stood on the edge of Farmington Bay, surrounded by some of Utah’s most wealthy and powerful people. He announced a goal — get the Great Salt Lake to a healthy level by 2034.

The loss of the Great Salt Lake would be an environmental disaster with health and economic effects far beyond Utah’s borders. The state is taking action, but critics say it’s not doing enough.

Sailfest is a Great Salt Lake tradition, bringing all types of groups together for a day of music, food, and of course, boating on the lake. “(It’s) a community celebration of the Great Salt Lake,” ...

As the Great Salt Lake in Utah continues to dry up, the arts community has mobilized to lay bare the major ecological, economic and health stakes if the decline continues. The public art project, Wake ...

It was the deadliest massacre of indigenous people in U.S. history. But today, many still don’t know the story. It was 1863, on an icy January morning, at dawn. Hundreds of members of the Northwestern ...