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One day after Trump's national monument cuts, Moab-based Kimmerle Mining filed seven claims within the old boundaries of Bears Ears. Less than a month later, Craig Rosequist filed two claims within Grand Staircase.
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Bekee Hotze/Forest Service“For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has tied the hands of local land managers with a one-size-fits-all federal policy,” said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. “Rescinding it restores the flexibility to make thoughtful decisions based on the needs of each forest and each community.” -
Courtesy Dawn Kish/Tad Project, Glen Canyon EmergingPhotographer Tad Nichols documented Glen Canyon’s beauty before Lake Powell’s creation when the Colorado River was dammed in the early 60’s. Now, 60 years on, Powell is receding, and photographer Dawn Kish is walking in Nichols’ footsteps.
Was Mary Todd Lincoln really as terrible as history remembers? She was criticized for her spending, her manners and her mental health. But historian Lois Romano argues that much of the hatred directed at Mary Todd Lincoln had less to do with who she was than with what Americans expected a First Lady to be.
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Utah’s push to expand energy production faces new scrutiny after three advocacy organizations accused the state Office of Energy Development of using taxpayer dollars to make false or deceptive claims about nuclear energy. -
New data shows Utah is producing far fewer vehicle emissions than it did in 2011, even as the state’s population and total miles driven have continued to climb. -
Powell reached the new low on Aug. 15. The two lakes on the Colorado River are the country's largest reservoirs and provide water and electricity for millions of people, as well as farms and wildlife. -
From March to July, snow typically melts at about 9 millimeters of water per day. But on snow-eater heat wave days, that rate jumps to about 17 millimeters per day. -
Friends and family are sharing what they'll miss about Chris Andersen and Miles Elliott. Their deaths have also further shaken the wildland fire community, which has lost several firefighters in this intense and ongoing season. -
Attendees from the crowd who witnessed the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last year are approaching Utah’s victims office about compensation for the trauma they experienced. -
Salt Lake City Council wants to tie case numbers to license plate camera data access. To get a sense of what that looks like, KUER put in a records request for camera access records over the last five years. -
With final design underway, the FrontRunner is poised for its biggest transformation yet. Transit advocates are excited because they see it as a stepping stone for even bigger Wasatch Front plans. -
Tyler Robinson’s attorneys say prosecutors have not proven that others who attended Kirk’s Sept. 10 event at Utah Valley University were in danger by the shooting. That's a potentially aggravating factor under state law that would make it a capital crime.
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