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Congressman Owens’ decision comes in the wake of Utah’s long-fought redistricting and a court-appointed map with a Democratic-leaning district. Owens unsuccessfully sued to stop the map.
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Elaine Clark/KUERBrigham Young approved an order to “exterminate” Native Americans in 1850 after Latter-day Saint settlers arrived in Utah Valley. The Nation’s chief executive says her people still live in fear. -
David Condos/KUERUtah’s congressional delegation introduced a resolution to roll back the rules that govern the vast monument. Conservation groups worry the move will harm southern Utah’s landscape and protected areas across the West.
In 1856, 19-year-old Mary Ann Patten became the first woman to captain an American merchant ship after her husband fell gravely ill rounding South America. Historian Tilar Mazzeo joins us to tell her story.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted the permit to Bill Gates-backed TerraPower to build a sodium-cooled nuclear reactor in Kemmerer, about 130 miles northeast of Salt Lake City. -
Steve Pearce, a former Republican congressman from New Mexico, would next need to clear a vote in the full Senate in the coming weeks to be confirmed. -
Last year’s Running Up For Air fundraiser paid off with four new air quality monitors around Ogden. This year’s race up and down Malan’s Peak hopes to add even more. -
From Salt Lake City to St. George, communities statewide experienced their warmest winter on record. Snowpack, air quality and ski shops all took a hit. -
Modern drones map farmland, inspect power lines and help fight wildfires. Nationwide, the drone industry now employs more than 100,000 people — and demand for trained pilots continues to grow. -
“Let’s keep working on it,” one senator said after the House passed more changes, including an in-person ID requirement, for Utah’s popular mail-in ballots. -
The campaign to get a Proposition 4 repeal on the ballot has enough verified signatures — at least for now. Signers have a few weeks to remove names, and that could tip the scales in close Senate districts. -
A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center is heading to an online auction as dinosaur prices keep soaring. The preauction estimates on Trey stand at $4.5 to $5.5 million. -
Two men have been indicted on federal firearm charges in connection with a deadly shooting in a Latter-day Saint chapel parking lot last month. The shooting left two adults dead and six others injured.
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