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The START AgriTech event at Utah Tech University focuses on emerging technologies that could help make agriculture more sustainable in dry places.
Katherine Fox, a generous friend of the station, will kick in $10,000 when we hear from 100 donors today. KUER's spring fund drive is happening April 13-19. Give now.
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Saige Miller/KUERThe party candidates seem to be getting more diverse, including more women and people of color winning their convention races. -
Brian Albers/KUERThe U.S. Department of Education’s rollout of an updated student aid application promised to make the process easier. But riddled with problems, the number of completed applications have dropped.
The people who fight wildfires are called "hotshots." Gabriel Mann’s new film gets viewers as close to the fire line as they can get without being an actual hotshot. Mann became fixated with wildfires in 2016, when the Sand Fire burned more than 41,000 acres around Los Angeles. He picked up a camera and embedded with a bunch of hotshots, trying to understand their work, and most of all, fire. You'll have to see his footage to believe it.
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Utah State Board of Education member Natalie Cline faced calls to resign after lawmakers said she bullied a student on social media has lost her nomination for reelection. She needed at least 40% of the delegate votes at the Salt Lake County Republican Convention, but fell short of that threshold Saturday. -
The Arizona Coyotes will likely be sold to Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith shortly after the team’s final game, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. -
The Cliven Bundy family is still grazing cattle on disputed southern Nevada rangeland where armed protesters and federal agents took part in a tense showdown in 2014. -
Samuel Bateman pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines. But his deal hinged on whether others charged in the case would also plead guilty. -
Arizona Coyotes players have been informed the NHL club is expected to relocate to Salt Lake City, a person with knowledge of the meeting tells The Associated Press. -
Nearly 1,800 residents of Panguitch had been on high alert in the days since inspectors discovered an unexpected 60-foot crack in the Panguitch Lake Dam on Monday night. -
The Interior Department rule finalized Friday raises royalty rates for oil drilling by more than one-third, to 16.67%, in accordance with the sweeping 2022 climate law approved by Congress.
KUER's State Street team invites you to a night of politics-themed trivia on April 24!
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