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A park bench warms in the sun at Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park, March 19, 2026.

The record-smashing heat dome baking Utah and the Southwest is headed east

“Basically, the entire U.S. is going to be hot,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Gregg Gallina on Monday — and the heat isn't going away for a while.

Leafy greens grow at a community garden in Salt Lake City, May 12, 2022.

It’s so warm in Utah. Is now the time to start planting your garden?

Record-warm temperatures have made March feel more like summer. But it may not be tomato time yet.

Students in the Ute language class at Kwiyagat Community Academy in Towaoc, practice using their native language to sat “bear” while gathered around a mural of the animal, which is also the school’s mascot. Sept. 18, 2025.

These southwest Colorado elementary schools are trying to save the Ute language

The only problem: No one is fully fluent.

Sunbathers in Sugar House Park were among the people taking advantage of the mid-March heat wave that swept into Salt Lake City, March 19, 2026.

From Salt Lake to St. George, Utah’s March is one of the hot ones

National Weather Service meteorologist Hayden Mahan said if Salt Lake City hits at least 81 degrees this weekend, “that would be the warmest March temperature ever recorded. The previous record being just 80 degrees.”

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office located at 2487 S 1620 W, Unit E, in Ogden, March 17, 2026.

Ogden activists want to use a city permit as an unlikely tactic against ICE

ICE sometimes holds people overnight at its temporary detention facility in Ogden, in violation of conditions set by the city planning commission in 2000. Could the city do anything about it?

A Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel along State Street in downtown Salt Lake City, Aug. 23, 2025.

Latter-day Saint women can now be a local Sunday School president

The announced change from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is effective immediately. Before this, only men could be Sunday School presidents in local wards.

Bigger crowds and increasing heat can strain national park search and rescue crews. A training at Zion National Park, seen here March 16, 2026, aims to help teams get ready.

‘Rescues are why we train’: National crews brush up at Zion before busy season

Search and rescue crew leaders from national parks across the West converged at Zion this week to share tips and tricks for how to keep people safe.

Botany professors Jim Cohen and Heather Root leaf through plant specimens in their Weber State University lab in Ogden, March 10, 2026.

Utah’s warm winter is likely to lead to a confusing spring for early flowering

Weber State scientists have an eye on the correlation between weather and the timing of flowers blooming. Short answer: heat speeds things up.

Visitors look across Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah, Aug. 31, 2025.

Utah’s Mighty 5 national parks saw a half-million visitor dip in 2025

The slump in Utah park tourism comes as American politics and rhetoric keep many international visitors away. Locals around the parks are feeling the impact.

The West’s snow drought is pushing cross-country ski areas to a breaking point

Cross-country ski areas are doing their best to adapt, but they lack the same tools available in the far bigger downhill skiing industry.

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