Briana Scroggins
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Special to KUER
Utah's legislative session is 45 days long, and lawmakers are in the final day's sprint to beat the midnight deadline. Lawmakers got most of their promised court reforms — but were they able to get the rest of their priorities?
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Gabriel Pietrorazio/KJZZIt's known by the name Velvet-Wood, and the project's Canadian owner got the go-ahead back in May as the first to undergo an "accelerated," two-week environmental review, during which tribes had only seven days to reply. -
Matthew Daly/APThe Trump administration has a growing appetite to build domestic nuclear power and the industry that supports it. That dovetails with Utah's own interest in developing an in-state full-stop nuclear economy.
In 1856, 19-year-old Mary Ann Patten became the first woman to captain an American merchant ship after her husband fell gravely ill rounding South America. Historian Tilar Mazzeo joins us to tell her story.
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Modern drones map farmland, inspect power lines and help fight wildfires. Nationwide, the drone industry now employs more than 100,000 people — and demand for trained pilots continues to grow. -
“Let’s keep working on it,” one senator said after the House passed more changes, including an in-person ID requirement, for Utah’s popular mail-in ballots. -
The campaign to get a Proposition 4 repeal on the ballot has enough verified signatures — at least for now. Signers have a few weeks to remove names, and that could tip the scales in close Senate districts. -
A triceratops skeleton that once greeted visitors at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center is heading to an online auction as dinosaur prices keep soaring. The preauction estimates on Trey stand at $4.5 to $5.5 million. -
Brigham Young approved an order to “exterminate” Native Americans in 1850 after Latter-day Saint settlers arrived in Utah Valley. The Nation’s chief executive says her people still live in fear. -
Two men have been indicted on federal firearm charges in connection with a deadly shooting in a Latter-day Saint chapel parking lot last month. The shooting left two adults dead and six others injured. -
Funding key pieces of Gov. Spencer Cox’s proposal made the early budget while reshaping existing dollars to focus on high‑utilizers, emergency shelter and behavioral‑health services. -
The Colorado River Basin appears to be gearing up for a legal fight. And the federal government is weighing its options for making the states share the shrinking river. -
The advocates work to meet people’s basic needs, with the end goal of helping them find and stay in stable housing to reduce the cost to the community.
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