Pamela McCall
Morning Edition HostPamela is a dual citizen who hails from Canada and has been wandering the planet as a journalist. Vancouver, Hong Kong, London, New York and Seattle have been along her well-trodden path. She’s worked for the BBC World Service, CBS News Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. On 9-11, Pamela was an eyewitness to the collapse of the World Trade Center. Her love of skiing, mountains and radio has brought her back to Salt Lake City, where she covered ski racing during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Pamela is a certified ski instructor and a fledgling cook who admits to not being fully domesticated. She drove her well-worn car with her beloved kitty Possum through one Canadian province and three states to arrive at her new home at the foot of the Wasatch mountains.
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A new study released by Utah State University found Utah will likely warm dramatically due to climate change. The study looked at the impact that reality will have on Utah’s ski resorts and what can be done to sustain them. -
It’s a battle that goes beyond putting out the flames consuming the nation’s public lands. Women wildland firefighters have been struggling to change the work culture as they toil alongside their male counterparts. In filmmaker Holly Tuckett’s new documentary “Anchor Point," she chronicles the volatile dynamics and profiles women sowing seeds of change.
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Pamela McCall is KUER's Morning Edition host. But 20 years ago, she was working in New York City for CBS News Radio. She covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks live in lower Manhattan for that news outlet.
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“LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth in her jet dragster racing days. She’s written a new book called “Bonneville’s Women of Land Speed Racing,” telling the story of how women broke the gender barrier on the Bonneville Salt Flats and some speed records along the way.
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Friday is the deadline for public input on two primary transportation options aimed at easing traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon. One would see a gondola installed; the other calls for widening the road and expanding bus service. But Olympic silver medalist Nathaniel Coleman and the climbing community are worried about the impact of either option.
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The arrival of the Delta variant in Utah has led to a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases this summer. Numbers started to spike just as Utah’s new state epidemiologist, Dr. Leisha Nolen, assumed the position in early July. Nolen is well versed in the virus though. She has worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Alaska and was one of the first responders in Seattle when COVID-19 was initially identified at a nursing home.
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The bid to bring the Winter Olympic games back to Utah is gathering pace. Fraser Bullock, president of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee For The Games, said he expects talks to move forward after the Tokyo Games end and he hopes for a decision to be made by next summer.
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Washington Post Columnist David Von Drehle recently wrote an opinion piece about the drought gripping the West. Though the situation is dire, Von Drehle said there’s reason to be hopeful.
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In 2019, Michael Chad Breinholt was shot by a West Valley City police officer while in custody at the station. A new investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and PBS Frontline found that it wasn’t Sgt. Tyler Longman’s first fatal shooting, and that he’s not the only Utah officer who has been involved in multiple shootings.
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Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is mourning the discovery this week of another 751 bodies of Indigenous children at a former residential school in Canada. And he’s bracing for the Department of the Interior’s investigation into what happened at schools here in the U.S. — including one in Utah.
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Ninety percent of Utah has been in an extreme drought since the start of the year. Gov. Spencer Cox has since issued a state of emergency asking everyone to cut back on water use.So, what are homeowners who pride themselves on velvety green lawns to do when it comes to watering?
