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,” ...

Land speed racers and car enthusiasts gathered at the Bonneville Salt Flats for World of Speed last month, as they have nearly every year for the past four decades, greeting many longtime friends and ...

It has been long assumed that Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats was formed as its ancient namesake lake dried up 13,000 years ago. But new research has gutted that narrative, determining these crusts did ...

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 ...

One of the highlights of the 1954 GM Motorama car show was the Chevy Corvette-based Pontiac Bonneville Special. The Bonneville Special was a two-seat, high-performance luxury coupe concept from the ...

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 ...

A driver died Sunday after he crashed while he was trying to set a land speed record at an annual event on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, event organizers said. Chris Raschke, 60, died after the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WENDOVER, UTAH – Father knows fast. My dad, Ed Renck, built his first engine when he was 14 years old. He wanted a car to drive before he was old enough to ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

Utah geology graduate student Jeremiah Bernau, on top, operates a coring device with Ben Marconi while extracting cores from the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2019. Both were University of Utah graduate ...