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VIDEO: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample lands in the Utah desert

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off pebbles and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu to close out a seven-year journey.

Despite its top performance, an audit says Park City schools are leaving some behind

Across six of the seven schools in the Park City School District, there are 12 low-performing student groups.

Rocky Vista University medical student Maysen Smith, right, talks with Utah legislators during the interim session in St. George. Smith and RVU Dean of Osteopathic Medicine Heather Ferrill, left, described how the lack of opportunities for residency training at Utah hospitals hurts the state’s health care workforce, Sept. 18, 2023.

Rural Utah needs health care workers. Local leaders want the Legislature’s help

Especially in rural parts of Utah, it can be a challenge to train, hire and keep health care workers. During the Legislature's interim session in St. George, local leaders described how they'd like lawmakers to help.

A look at the tail end of the Utah Transit Authority's FrontRunner, stopped at Salt Lake Central station, March 10, 2023.

As growth clogs I-15, UTA says FrontRunner — with investments — is poised to meet demand

With a nearly $1 billion price tag, UTA’s FrontRunner expansion not only comes with new tracks but new trains as well.

How rural southwest Utah is proving the potential of renewable geothermal energy

Getting more power from geothermal energy could help reduce fossil fuel emissions and curb climate change. Recent breakthroughs in southwest Utah are showing that this renewable energy source could have the potential to work almost anywhere.

George and Mitt Romney look out over the grounds of the World's Fair in 1964. The World's Fair included exhibits from several automobile companies.

Like his dad, retiring Mitt Romney embraced moderate conservatism. He fears the GOP has lost its way

Romney’s decision not to run for another Senate term has a distant echo of his father’s departure from politics five decades ago.

A tanker truck leaves the 600 N interchange to merge onto I-15 north of downtown Salt Lake City, Sept. 12, 2023. The Utah Department of Transportation is planning to expand I-15 north of town, in part to accommodate heavy freight traffic on Utah's roads.

Do the Inland Port’s freight rail ambitions square with UDOT’s plan to expand I-15?

The Utah Department of Transportation plans to expand I-15 between Farmington and Salt Lake City, in part to accommodate trucks. The Inland Port’s new vision is for more trains.

Ogden mayoral candidate Ben Nadsolski outside the city's Pleasant Valley Branch of the Weber County Library, Sept. 13, 2023.

These are mayoral candidate Ben Nadolski’s priorities to meet Ogden’s ‘blue-collar grit’

Nadolski wants infrastructure improvements and more affordable housing in Ogden.

The Quiet Beauty of Scandinavian Wood

When you hold a handcrafted knife in your hand, what do you notice? The quality of the blade’s steel, the sharpness of its edge, and maybe the angle of its bevel.

Seventeen-year-old Gabriella Miranda at the KUER studios, Aug. 31, 2023. The newly-minted National Student Poet was born and raised in Salt Lake City.

Poetry helped her feel ‘like a regular kid.’ Now this Utahn is a National Student Poet

Salt Lake City student Gabriella Miranda was recently named a 2023 National Student Poet. As part of the award, she’ll lead a service project, during which she hopes to connect with and teach other students of color.

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