It was the deadliest massacre of indigenous people in U.S. history. But today, many still don’t know the story. It was 1863, on an icy January morning, at dawn. Hundreds of members of the Northwestern ...

Note to readers • Leia Larsen is a reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune. She spent a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining the intersection of politics and environmental issues.

Gov. Spencer Cox recently stood on the edge of Farmington Bay, surrounded by some of Utah’s most wealthy and powerful people. He announced a goal — get the Great Salt Lake to a healthy level by 2034.