Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake — and what can be done to make a difference before it is too late. Read all of our stories at greatsaltlakenews.org. OGDEN — Utah land managers said Thursday ... Read More

Land under conservation easement is not for building Re: "A counter proposal for Park Hill Golf Course development," Sept. 18 commentary First, Megan Schrader omits explaining the critical fact that the Park Hill Golf Course land conservation easement is governed by the Colorado conservation easement statute. In accordance with this statute, the conservation easement cannot be terminated, ... Read More

A three-year widening project that begins next week on E-470 in northeast metro Denver will add a third travel lane in each direction along an 11-mile stretch of the tollway. The $350 million project will start at Interstate 70, near Denver International Airport, and work north toward East 104th Avenue while also adding or revamping several interchanges, according to a news release. ... Read More

Idaho public lands and forests are in line to receive $28 million for the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to put toward improvements and upgrades through the first two years of funding from the Great American Outdoors Act. Enacted in August 2020, the Great American Outdoors Act is a five-year initiative that provides about $1.9 billion per year in federal funding from 2021 to ... Read More

Boulder County won approval Wednesday for an alternate transit service plan that will use $34.2 million in federal pandemic aid withheld from RTD in a dispute over several suspended commuter bus routes. The Denver Regional Council of Governments' board of directors, made of up of local elected officials and appointees, voted unanimously to add the county's new transit plan to its current ... Read More

Sep. 6—The latest North Dakota coronavirus news: broadband boost, airport assistance and more. Broadband boost North Dakota is getting $45 million in American Rescue Plan coronavirus aid to boost broadband infrastructure in the state. The money will connect nearly 4,000 homes and businesses to high-speed internet service, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, which announced the funding ... Read More

LAKEWOOD, COLO. – On Friday, the Rocky Mountain Region of the U.S. Forest Service learned of projects funded as part of $65 million in investments nationwide to help the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service improve water quality, roads, trails and fish habitat through the new Collaborative Aquatic Landscape Restoration Program and the existing Legacy Roads and Trails Program. “These ... Read More

A total of nearly $17.8 million was granted to two transportation improvement projects in Idaho through President Joe Biden’sbipartisan infrastructure law. The law invested $1.66 billion in grants toward low and no emission public transportation across the nation, according to the Federal Transit Administration. The majority of the funding for Idaho was granted to Valley Regional Transit in ... Read More

Dollar General plans to build a 919,000-square-foot distribution facility on 75 acres it purchased near Denver International Airport earlier this year. The Tennessee-based retail chain paid $22 million in early May for the land within the HighPoint Elevation industrial park at the southeast corner of East 64th Avenue and E-470 in Aurora, according to public records. That's about $293,000 an ... Read More

WORLAND — Wyoming Department of Transportation officials say a construction project on West River Road (Wyoming 433) will get underway later this month with some restrictions. According to a WYDOT information sheet, detours will tentatively start on Nov. 14. Crews will replace three bridges on West River Road during the project, two that cross Big Horn Canal and another that crosses Ten Mile ... Read More