
Kate Groetzinger
Reporter, Southeast Utah BureauKate joined KUER from Austin, Texas. She has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody School of Communication. She has been an intern, fellow and reporter at Texas Monthly, the Texas Observer, Quartz, the Texas Standard and Voces, an oral history project. Kate began her public radio career at Austin’s NPR station, KUT, as a part-time reporter. She served as a corps member of Report For America, a public service program that partners with local newsrooms to bring reporters to undercovered areas across the country.
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An off-roading advocacy group is warning campers about road closures on public lands. The move is a response to ongoing travel management planning by the Bureau of Land Management in Utah.
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High school and elementary students in Monument Valley recently published a book of oral histories. They conducted interviews with their grandparents and relatives about what life used to be like on the Navajo Nation.
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Moab residents gathered Monday night at a local bookstore to read pieces they wrote about the Pack Creek Fire. It has scorched almost 9,000 acres in the nearby La Sal Mountains.
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Park advocates and local officials say a reservation system is needed to deal with record visitation at Arches this year. But efforts to implement reservations have failed in the past.
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Utah is in the midst of its worst drought in decades. State officials have focused on that to explain the water shortage the state is facing. But experts say there’s more to the story.
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The San Juan School District is still working on getting internet access to all of its students on the Navajo Nation. The project was supposed to be completed by the summer, but it ran into some delays.
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A proposed highway through the Book Cliffs in eastern Utah is back on the table. Talk of a federal infrastructure package helped revive the project last month.
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Energy developers and uranium miners are eyeing parts of what once was Bears Ears National Monument, even as President Joe Biden is reviewing the monument for expansion.
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Conservation groups are upset by a proposal to drill for oil on public land less than a mile from the western edge of Dinosaur National Monument.
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Mining in the West often results in polluted watersheds, but a new study shows efforts to clean up leaking mines are extremely effective.
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Gov. Spencer Cox has said Utah will likely sue if President Joe Biden enlarges Bears Ears National Monument. But experts say that could be a hard case to win.
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Oil and gas production is picking up in Utah. The resurgence comes as the price of crude oil recovers after it hit a record low last spring and after an energy leasing ban on public lands was enacted earlier this year.