Some level of fire restrictions are now in place across nearly all public lands in Utah as the state's drought worsens.

The St. George area has replaced nearly three million square feet of turf with water-efficient landscaping since 2023.

The fire sparked in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest a few miles from the Manor Lands east of Mirror Lake Highway.

An environmental group is suing the Bureau of Land Management over the agency’s approval of a mining project in Utah’s West Desert.