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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The U.S. Interior Department’s energy leasing review is in full swing, following a call Thursday with a wide range of stakeholders. President Joe Biden requested the review back in January, when he indefinitely paused all leasing on federal public lands.
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The Navajo Nation is considering lifting a restriction on in-person education. That would allow schools in San Juan County that serve Navajo students to re-open, but only if parents are ready.
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Recent studies found there’s likely less water in Moab’s aquifer than previously thought. Now, the tightening water supply has led to a reckoning over the consequences of development and the virtues of conservation.
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Rural counties in Utah with national parks have to pay for things like roads and law enforcement for millions of people. That’s becoming a problem as more tourists visit Utah, so the state legislature stepped in to help.
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NASA is using the Navajo language to name features on the surface of Mars. Aaron Yazzie, a Navajo NASA engineer, said he hopes this helps students take pride in their language.
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The Navajo Nation announced it will begin lifting COVID-19 restrictions due to a steep decline in cases across the reservation.
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The San Juan School District is close to completing a project to bring the internet to its students on the Navajo Nation. Not all students are online yet, but teachers said it’s already making a difference.
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An effort to regulate all-terrain vehicles in Moab was killed by the Utah Legislature last week, but people on both sides of the issue say the fight isn’t over.
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A bipartisan bill to help build a visitors’ center at Bears Ears National Monument is moving through the Utah Legislature. It passed a Senate committee unanimously Tuesday and pro-monument groups support the legislation.
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Time is running out to create a new state park north of Moab. The measure received a lot of support in the Utah House of Representatives last week, but it still has to pass the Senate.
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Utah lawmakers want Congress to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. It’s a federal program meant to help those suffering the effects of nuclear testing or uranium mining.
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Utah is supposed to spend revenue generated by drilling and mining on federal public lands to offset extraction impacts. But a state senator from Duchesne County has filed legislation that could change that.