Utah has a new city. See why creating it wasn’t easy and why the path forward looks bumpy.
A state judge found that Tooele County had worked against Erda’s incorporation and ordered the surveyor to approve the city’s boundaries.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tooele County's Erda, shown here in 2020, is Utah's newest city.
Leia Larsen is a sixth generation Utahn and a water and land use reporter reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has covered environment, energy and political issues throughout the West. When she’s not chasing the news, Leia can be found exploring the Wasatch Mountains, sleeping in the desert or rooting around her garden.