Fifteen-year-old David Phillips had spent six months planning a hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with his Boy Scout troop. No one could have known it would end in tragedy. When the group arrived ...

DUCHESNE COUNTY, Utah — Crews are working to contact hikers and guide them out of certain areas in the High Uintas Wilderness Area potentially threatened by a wildfire. The "East Fork Fire" is ...

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The family of an elderly, partially deaf Arizona man missing in the Uinta Mountains nearly a week pleaded for volunteers to help as the search resumed Friday. Melvin Heaps, 74, left for a hike along ...

(KUTV) — Two Utah national forests are seeking public comment on a draft environmental impact statement regarding sheep grazing allotments in the area. The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache and Ashley National ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — Snowmobilers remotely triggered a massive avalanche in the Moffit Basin area of the Uintas on Saturday. The slide was caught on camera by one of the riders and shared on social media ...

(KUTV) -- An 80-acre wildfire sparked up in the Uintas Saturday evening. The Cobblerest Fire is currently burning 80 acres and is zero-percent contained. According to Dispatcher Brian Phillips from ...

Just south of the Montana State line, in the lower Big Horn Basin, sits Natural Trap Cave: a large circular hole in the ground with a 30-foot vertical drop to a cavern below. You can’t see it until ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — The Beulah Fire, burning on the north slope of the Uinta Mountains, saw explosive fire growth on Saturday, according to the Interagency Incident Management Team. The ...

In the early 1970s Yellowstone to Uintas founder and staff ecologist, Dr. John Carter began backpacking in the Uinta Wilderness in northeastern Utah where one of his friends got giardia from drinking ...