Health, Science & Environment

Parts of Cedar City flooded Monday leaving homes and businesses damaged, and around 200 Southern Utah University students displaced. Local leaders are preparing for potentially more flooding later this week.

The massive reservoir on the Colorado River hit a new historic low on July 24, dropping below 3,555.1 feet in elevation. The previous low was set in 2005. The last time the reservoir was this low was in 1969, when it first filled.

Salt Lake County’s health director Angela Dunn, sounded the alarm Thursday morning about a growing number of COVID-19 cases.

People who frequently recreate at Lake Powell say getting on the water is more difficult and takes more planning now, but lower water levels have also allowed them to see previously hidden sights.

In 2019, a girl from Bermuda died by suicide at West Ridge Academy, a teen treatment facility in West Jordan. The Salt Lake Tribune reports her parents filed a lawsuit against the facility last month. The litigation comes as a new state law requires centers to develop suicide prevention policies.

About 80% of Colorado’s water falls on the western side of the state. But about 80% of Colorado’s people live on the east side of the mountains. Because of gravity, that water doesn’t flow to them naturally. Instead, Colorado’s heavily-populated Front Range relies on a massive plumbing system to keep drinking water flowing to its taps.

The #FreeBritney Movement is bringing more attention to issues affecting people with disabilities in Utah like conservatorship and guardianship cases.

Those living with compromised immune systems are facing a double whammy with the region's low vaccination rates and the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine may not offer them the same protection as their peers.

A flash flood caused a freight train to derail in Iron County Thursday night. Southwest Utah has been pounded by thunderstorms in recent days as monsoon season gets underway.

A massive new infrastructure bill is slowly moving its way through Congress this summer. But a coalition of elected officials, farmers, conservationists and tribal leaders want to make sure it doesn’t include new big pipelines or dams along the parched Colorado River.

Severe wildfires across the West have prompted the nation’s top fire agency to increase its preparedness level to the highest and most critical stage — the earliest the agency has done so in a decade.

Emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream of Lake Powell have begun to preserve the nation’s second-largest reservoir’s ability to generate hydroelectric power.