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Mining in the West often results in polluted watersheds, but a new study shows efforts to clean up leaking mines are extremely effective.
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Marina Skutina/iStockphotoA new survey reveals that Hispanics have twice as much interest in getting vaccinated "as soon as possible" as non-Hispanic whites or non-Hispanic black people -
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Sports news outlets rarely cover women’s athletics as exhaustively as men’s leagues. Even when male reporters and broadcasters do talk about women’s sports, they don't always take the subject as seriously. Julie DiCaro talks about the changes she's seen in the industry and about her book Sidelined: Sports, Culture and Being a Woman in America.
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Gov. Spencer Cox has said Utah will likely sue if President Joe Biden enlarges Bears Ears National Monument. But experts say that could be a hard case to win. -
Gov. Spencer Cox said he chose only to lift the school mask requirement for the last week as a compromise between parents who wanted it gone immediately and those who wanted it to stay.
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A rare but serious COVID-19-related condition has disproportionately affected Hispanic and Latino children in the Mountain West.
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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, and Rep. John Curtis, R-UT, introduced legislation Thursday to designate 289,000 acres of land in Illinois as federally protected wilderness. It’s an attempt to troll Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, who introduced America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act Monday that would designate 8.4 million acres in Utah as federally-protected wilderness areas.
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The University of Utah is launching a workshop this summer for teachers to update their curriculum around Indigenous people and culture.
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The Utah Attorney General’s Office found police acted appropriately when they responded to a protest in Cottonwood Heights last summer. Some community members wonder how they came to that conclusion.
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KUER 90.1 announced today that Cristy Meiners, executive producer of RadioWest, will lead KUER as interim station manager beginning May 10.
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Renee Bright/KUERSt. George is known as a desert tourism hotspot and a retirement destination, but business and city leaders are hoping to rebrand it as a tech hub. To do that, they want to turn the 180 acres around a shuttered airport into a multi-use community.
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Renee Bright/KUERUtah’s tech industry needs out-of-state talent in order to continue growing, according to industry lobbyists. Making Utah an attractive place to live is critical to that recruitment effort, they say.
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The National Gallery of Art and four Smithsonian museums have reopened in Washington, D.C., but not fully. Some are only open five days a week and their hours are reduced.
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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with musician Annie Clark about her new '70s-inspired album as St. Vincent, called Daddy's Home.
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In Colombia, deadly anti-government protests are now in their third week. Protesters are taking to the streets over police violence, economic inequity and health reform amid the pandemic.
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House lawmakers reached a deal on a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by supporters of then-President Trump and to recommend changes to further protect the complex.
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