Utah's drought conditions made a rare, dramatic leap last week — and state water officials are urging communities to act now. Here's what the numbers mean for residents along the Wasatch Front.

Salt Lake City ranks second in the nation for plastic surgeons per capita — ahead of Los Angeles. Behind that statistic is a booming aesthetic economy reshaping the Wasatch Front, one med spa at a time.

First in almost everything. Dead last in one. Utah is the best state in America by nearly every measure that matters — and one of the worst for something you can't avoid. With the world coming to Salt Lake City in 2034, the clock is ticking.

Russia stockpiled 710,000 cubic meters of snow to fake a Winter Olympics. China spent $60 million on snow machines to cover bone-dry mountains for 2022. Utah doesn't have that problem — yet. But with the Great Salt Lake shrinking and 2034 approaching, the state is betting on a high-tech weather modification program, smarter water use, and sheer determination to make sure the world's greatest snow on Earth stays that way.

There’s something that happens in April on the Wasatch Front that doesn’t make the news but plays out in neighborhoods all across the Salt Lake Valley. Drip lines get checked. Plot stakes go back in the ground. Gardeners show up with seed packets and notebooks, planning what goes where. The soil, cold and compact just weeks before, starts to give.

The skies above the Wasatch Front are about to become a real-world laboratory. The rules written here — in Utah's mountain air, over Utah's terrain, under Utah's conditions — will determine how this technology serves communities across America for the next half century. The future of flight is being tested in your backyard. Summer 2026. Utah's project is called uFLY: America's AAM Crossroads to the West

Where Utah’s old state prison once stood, excavators are now carving out the foundation of what could become the most closely watched community development in the country. It’s called The Point, and its ambition is as straightforward as it is audacious: build a place where everything a person needs–work, school, shopping, dining, entertainment, and open space–sits within a fifteen-minute walk from home.