Inland Port

Grantsville and Tooele county officials are celebrating the tax revenue and jobs they expect from two new Utah Inland Port Authority projects, but residents remain unsure.

A recent report from activists says nearly 53,000 acres of wetlands in the Great Salt Lake Basin could be at risk if the Inland Port and its satellites are developed as planned.

The Utah Department of Transportation plans to expand I-15 between Farmington and Salt Lake City, in part to accommodate trucks. The Inland Port’s new vision is for more trains.

The Verk Industrial Park will be around 2,200 acres on the west side of the city.

Warehouse automation could change the logistics workforce while underdeveloped trucking technology could mean more polluting trucks in the Inland Port for the near future.

The idea is to cut back on trucks and embrace rail shipping. But dwindling West Coast imports and stiff big city competition make Inland Port success unlikely.

The Utah Inland Port Authority is looking at creating “satellite ports” statewide, including in Spanish Fork.

The legislative session is in its final stretch, with just one week left. This is the time when lawmakers vote on a ton of the session's most important and most controversial bills.

The latest Utah news for Wednesday evening, Feb. 23, 2022.

Utah’s real estate market is in a crunch. Now, the state Legislature is looking at one-time funding to help address affordable housing.

On Monday, a jury found one man guilty of disrupting a meeting of Utah’s Inland Port Authority in 2019.

The Utah Inland Port Authority postponed their decision to create a new public infrastructure district and issue $150 million in bonds for port projects.