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Salt Lake City’s beloved whale sculpture is getting a new paint job, and fans are celebrating what they say may be its latest miracle: a very rainy August.
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ARHIT/Adobe StockFrom Spokane, Wash. to Pueblo County, Colo., fast-moving fires have again wreaked havoc in neighborhoods this summer. Now, a network of scientists, fire professionals and other experts have joined forces to seek research-based solutions to the problem. -
Matt Ramey/APThis is the third time the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow new restrictions on mail ballots in time for the midterms. Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson has said legally and logistically, it can't be done.
Can even the best technology outshine what your body can do already? Mary Roach’s latest book explores prosthetic limbs, lab-grown organs and some truly bizarre ideas about the human body. Could a butt be used as a lung? Could a finger replace another digit lost to cancer? Roach joins RadioWest to explore just how far medical science can go.
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West Valley City, home to an ICE field office and the state’s largest Hispanic and Latino population, had the most arrests of any Utah city this fiscal year. -
The organizational overhaul under President Donald Trump intends to trim costs and concentrate resources in Western states. Forest Service Associate Chief Chris French said that work being done at the research centers would continue at other sites. -
Activist and journalist Gloria Steinem has died at 92. She crossed paths with early Latter-day Saint feminists like Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. -
The environmental groups argue President Donald Trump's slashing of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments is illegal. -
High housing prices are squeezing Utahns, and residents who say “not in my backyard” to affordable housing development can get in the way of solutions. A new St. George project, however, shows one way it can be done. -
Back in March, the city council agreed to test three Flock cameras. But after hearing concerns from residents and Gov. Spencer Cox, they called it off. -
The man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk as he spoke at Utah Valley University last year will stand trial and could face the death penalty. Robinson’s attorneys entered a plea of not guilty to the charges. -
A Utah judge is slated to hear arguments Tuesday to decide whether there is probable cause to justify a murder trial for Tyler Robinson, who is accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk last fall. -
An approval for permitted outfitters to use gas-powered machines to clear trails highlights a clash between access and preservation.
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