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Aiming to finalize back-to-back Winter Games hosts next year, the International Olympic Committee executive board has decided to enter exclusive talks with Olympic officials in France and the United States for Salt Lake City.
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Chris Stermer/California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, fileThe North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal. -
Brett Taylor/Getty Images/iStockphotoMountainland Continuum of Care says churches like the Provo Seventh-day Adventist Community Service Center, Provo Community Congregational United Church of Christ, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and St. Mary's Episcopal Church have stepped up.
When you think of the Grand Canyon, you probably think of rocks and the Colorado River. But in the summer of 1938, two women risked their lives to study another feature of the canyon: its plants. No one had yet surveyed the botany of the Grand Canyon when Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the river to do just that. Writer and journalist Melissa Sevigny recounts their journey in a new book, and she joins us to talk about it.
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The Bureau of Land Management quietly posted a notice on its website last week that it will no longer use the M-44 ejector devices across the 390,625 square miles it manages nationally.
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The Washington state Supreme Court has granted a request by the University of Washington and the Pac-12 to put on hold a lower court’s ruling that gave Oregon State and Washington State control of the conference.
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Fervo Energy, the company partnered with Google, is using the Nevada pilot project to launch others, including one in Utah that will deliver far more carbon-free electricity to the grid.
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Republican Sen. Mike McKell is considering draft legislation that would make the Utah Attorney General an appointed job rather than an elected one.
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According to the FBI’s annual crime reports, Utah’s violent crime rates have declined to pre-pandemic levels. But the rates in Salt Lake City have seen a much smaller drop than the rest of the state.
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The “leave the leaves” social media movement can help improve Utah’s dry soil, but people should be careful about where they leave their leaves.
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