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A proposed water rights settlement for three Native American tribes in Arizona has taken a significant step forward with an introduction in the Navajo Nation Council. It's the first of many approvals needed to finalize a deal decades in the making.
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Tilda Wilson/KUERAs part of their “Shovel Bums” club, private school students from Sandy are learning about and protecting Native American rock art along the shore of Utah Lake. -
Alex Hager/KUNCNew findings about sublimation explain how snow is lost to evaporation before it can melt. The data can help form better predictions about water supplies from the Colorado River.
Has America's gratuity culture reached a tipping point? Customers increasingly find themselves in the awkward situation of wondering where to tip, whether to tip and how much is fair. Meanwhile, service workers grapple with the need to make a living wage, and their employers struggle to manage expectations on both sides of the cash register. Even the etiquette experts are confused about tipping these days. We’ll talk about how we got to this point and if there’s any way out of the tipping conundrum.
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Window collisions are a big threat during spring bird migration. New window treatments going up at Zion National Park are part of a movement to reduce glass strikes. -
Eighteen tribes that use Colorado River water sent a list of principles to the federal government as contentious talks about how to share the shrinking supply continue. -
The move follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land. -
KUER asked two Utahns — one Palestinian, the other Jewish — about their thoughts on the pro-Gaza student protest movement that has now arrived at the University of Utah. -
Legislators left it up to each school district to decide how it would communicate the changes. Some have held classroom presentations. Others have sent home fact sheets or met privately with families who might be affected. -
Nationally, the CDC is seeing a widening gap in mortality rates between urban and rural communities. -
Nineteen protesters were arrested during the demonstration, but organizers say that won’t stop them from protesting. -
The seven-hour protest in President's Circle, including a tent encampment, was later dispersed by police late into the evening. Seventeen protestors were arrested, according to the University of Utah. -
Snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin — which includes Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico — appears to have peaked on April 3, within a few days of the average.
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