Briana Scroggins
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Special to KUER
Utah lawmakers are looking toward the 2027 legislative session to place guardrails on how AI is used in election campaigns.
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Alex Hager/KJZZThe federal government will cut back Arizona, California and Nevada's water allocations after years of state-level negotiations. Cities in the Phoenix and Tucson areas will be the hardest hit. -
Mic Smith/APAI chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere. But a growing number of U.S. public schools are now encouraging a new strategy: Bringing AI into the classroom, partly so students can see its shortcomings.
Caroline Crampton survived cancer but was left with hypochondria — that fear that something, anything, might make you terribly ill. Her book is part memoir and part history, chronicling her own struggles with hypochondria, along with those of Marcel Proust’s and Virginia Woolf’s.
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“For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has tied the hands of local land managers with a one-size-fits-all federal policy,” said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. “Rescinding it restores the flexibility to make thoughtful decisions based on the needs of each forest and each community.” -
Photographer Tad Nichols documented Glen Canyon’s beauty before Lake Powell’s creation when the Colorado River was dammed in the early 60’s. Now, 60 years on, Powell is receding, and photographer Dawn Kish is walking in Nichols’ footsteps. -
Utah’s push to expand energy production faces new scrutiny after three advocacy organizations accused the state Office of Energy Development of using taxpayer dollars to make false or deceptive claims about nuclear energy. -
New data shows Utah is producing far fewer vehicle emissions than it did in 2011, even as the state’s population and total miles driven have continued to climb. -
Powell reached the new low on Aug. 15. The two lakes on the Colorado River are the country's largest reservoirs and provide water and electricity for millions of people, as well as farms and wildlife. -
From March to July, snow typically melts at about 9 millimeters of water per day. But on snow-eater heat wave days, that rate jumps to about 17 millimeters per day. -
Friends and family are sharing what they'll miss about Chris Andersen and Miles Elliott. Their deaths have also further shaken the wildland fire community, which has lost several firefighters in this intense and ongoing season. -
Attendees from the crowd who witnessed the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last year are approaching Utah’s victims office about compensation for the trauma they experienced. -
Salt Lake City Council wants to tie case numbers to license plate camera data access. To get a sense of what that looks like, KUER put in a records request for camera access records over the last five years.
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