Utah Junction

Letters from the U.S. Department of Justice have become a constant in Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson’s mail. As Utah’s chief election officer, she has refused to release private voter data despite threats of criminal prosecution from the agency, and has been the most vocal top elected official on the issue — until now.

You need to make $186,827 a year to afford a median-priced home in Salt Lake County.

SALT LAKE CITY – Buying a home in Salt Lake County continues to grow more unaffordable, a new report shows. A report from the Salt Lake Board of Realtors looks at what it takes for buyers to afford a median-priced home. The median price of a single-family home in Salt Lake County was $645,000 in the second quarter of 2026—a record high. To afford a median-priced single-family home in Salt Lake County, the Board of Realtors found that a household needs an annual income of $186,827.

Tooele County residents concerned about a developer’s proposal to build a large-scale data center near the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake turned their frustrations and demands to put a stop to the proposal on the Utah Inland Port Authority Board on Thursday.

There’s no beating around the bush: Utah’s farmers were dealt a bad hand this year. On the same apple orchards in Utah where trees typically stand tall and full in the fall, there are now barren trees with no plump, juicy apples for farmers to sell for profit. And it’s all thanks to a freak freeze that hit the state this April. But that’s not actually where the story starts. Before the freeze, Utah experienced a warmer-than-usual winter that kickstarted some crops’ growing cycles.

Of the 432 wildfires currently burning in Utah, 300 of them were caused by people. What are the financial liabilities of those complicit in causing a wildfire in Utah?

The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation’s only remaining conventional uranium mill, which produces yellowcake for nuclear power fuel. For decades, the mill has sparked debate over whether radioactive contamination threatens human health by getting into the water and the air. Concerns run especially deep in the White Mesa Ute Community, where Lehi and about 200 members of his tribe live some 5 miles south of the facility.

Cat’s Flower Garden, the world’s first cat café, opened in Taiwan nearly 20 years ago. The U.S. wouldn’t get a cat café for another decade; Tinker’s Cat Cafe, which opened in Salt Lake’s Central City in 2007, was Utah’s first. Utah’s two new cat cafés (MiaoMiao, also in Central City, and The House Cat in Ogden) both opened in the last year. Hopefully this means more cat cafés are on the way.

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are disproportionately responsible for the water crisis in the American West, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Tuesday.

OGDEN CITY – An arrest by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Ogden last week led residents to question the city’s cooperation with the agency. On Aug. 25, an Ogden City Police officer was filmed watching as an ICE agent arrested a driver. The footage was captured by Ogden City Council Member Kevin Lundell. Commenters on social media questioned why the Ogden City Police Department (OPD) was collaborating with ICE.