A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

(Leia Larsen | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dennis Sullivan, chairman of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association, and Allison Volk Dean, chairman of Save the Salt, demonstrate how thin the salty halite layer ...

TOOELE COUNTY, Utah — For many people like Dennis Sullivan, president of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association, the Bonneville Salt Flats are of another world. "When you're going on an access road in ...

It’s been two years since many of the world’s land speed racers have had a chance to strap into their cars and race across the Bonneville Salt Flats. Speed Week was rained-out completely in 2022, and ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Aug. 5, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. One of the many natural features that make Utah ...

The Bonneville Salt Flats have shrunk by 75% in the last 100 years, and they could vanish entirely by the end of the century, new research has found. “The rate of decline definitely surprised me,” ...

If you've ever driven along I-80 between Wendover, a small stopover town that sits on the very western edge of Nevada, and Salt Lake City in Utah, then you've driven across the Great Salt Lake. Not ...