Caroline Ballard
Assistant News DirectorCaroline Ballard is a central Virginia native and a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. Ever since 2014 – to her delight and the dismay of her East Coast family and friends – she has steadily moved further west. For five years she served as Morning Edition host at Wyoming Public Radio, as well as its newsroom editor and host of the podcast HumaNature. She earned two PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Inc.) awards for Best Podcast for her work as lead producer on episodes of the show. In 2016, her reporting project Women Run the West, which examined the representation of women in western politics, was selected to be a part of the first NPR Story Lab. Caroline became KUER’s All Things Considered host in August 2019. When she’s not behind the mic, you can find her spending time with her husband and her rescue pup Scrappy, and cooking recipes that are far too complicated for her skill level.
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Clouds obscured much of the sky during the eclipse, but when the view was clear, cheers rang out. -
Senate President Stuart Adams and Senate Minority Leader Luz Escamilla appeared together during Senate media availability to present a united front. When asked about impeachment, Adams said “I think we're looking at those issues.” -
“We value our rivers and streams, wetlands, whatever it may be, our lakes,” said the bill’s Republican sponsor. “But trying to mix the idea that it's actually a human person is not appropriate.” -
The measure to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs flew through the Utah House of Representatives and seems to be on a similar pace in the Senate. -
The sample from the OSIRIS-REx mission could shed light on the history of the solar system and how life came to be. As one NASA scientist put it, “It’s the first time we’ll be able to look for the building blocks of life and trust the results, right, that this is not contamination.” -
In a year where antisemitism was more visible, Salt Lake City held its first public menorah lighting at the City and County Building. -
La’Ford’s exhibition at Ogden Contemporary Arts runs through July 24, 2022. -
“Something Wilder” follows Lily – an adventure tour guide in Southeast Utah – on a wild (and swoon-worthy) goose chase. -
A law passed by the Utah legislature in 2020 would ban most abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. -
"I really would like our own community to get away from the sort of faith politics of ‘does the show prove the church is good or bad or true or false?’" said Lindsay Hansen Park, a historical and cultural consultant for the series. -
Weber State’s Leah Murray said the late senator’s story is a “beautiful rags to riches American dream story.” -
We asked the editor of Utah Money Moms how best to weather this economic moment.
