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There have been some efforts to change Utah adoption law over the years, but “they have been greeted by staunch industry pushback,” said reporter Julia Lurie. “So it's more been sort of tinkering around the edges than really reforming the heart of the industry.

There’s a dark side to Utah’s faster and easier adoptions

Utah’s unique adoption laws have attracted pregnant women from across the country to the state, according to a new Mother Jones investigation. Many are enticed by free lodging and cash stipends.

Sen. Mitt Romney speaks with members of the press at his final news conference as a senator at his offices in Salt Lake City, Dec. 13, 2024. He's holding a pin from his dad's gubernatorial campaign in the 60s.

As he exits, Romney hopes the GOP will someday return to its pre-Trump roots

The one-term senator and former GOP presidential nominee said he plans to step away from politics in the next phase of his life.

Ogden City Cemetery, pictured here Dec. 12, 2024, will host a Wreaths Across America ceremony on Dec. 14.

Wreaths Across America’s relationship with its supplier remains an open question

Wreath ceremonies to honor fallen veterans are scheduled for Dec. 14 with several occurring in Utah, including in Salt Lake City, Ogden and St. George.

Tegan Spangrude and her dog Snowman in the kitchen of her Rose Park home on Monday, August. 12, 2024.

Radio Diaries: Despite health concerns, a Rose Park couple decides to stay

Tegan Spangrude and Dallen Brown found answers on the air they breathe indoors after a personal loss.

Anthony and Alysson Galarza in the kitchen of their Salt Lake City home on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.

Radio diaries: Utahns monitoring their indoor air quality wonder — are their habits worth it?

Two Utah households on opposite sides of the Salt Lake Valley recorded every polluting habit, leading one to change beloved routines.

George and Ashley Slaughter and their baby Martin at the Nativity in the Glen, Salt Lake City, Dec. 3, 2024.

In a divisive year, Salt Lake City’s Nativity in the Glen can still bring us together

After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it was tranquil the Tuesday after at the Nativity in the Glen — even though people still had to beat the crowds.

Literacy coach Janet Scott teaches a kindergarten class at Valley Crest Elementary in West Valley City, Nov. 13, 2023

Utah wants third-graders ‘reading at grade level.’ There’s still a long way to go

“Our second and our third graders stayed very stagnant; it was about exactly the same as where we were the year before. We've kind of hit a plateau,” Julie Clark with the Utah State Board of Education said of reading at grade level by the end of the 2023-2024 school year.

Evening Brief: Dec. 6, 2024

Water policymakers from (left to right) Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming speak on a panel at the Colorado River Water Users Association conference in Las Vegas on December 5, 2024. State leaders are deeply divided on how to share the shrinking water supply, and made little progress to bridge that divide at the annual meetings.

Colorado River states bluster and bicker ahead of an uncertain future for the water supply

The seven states that share the shrinking river are deeply divided about new rules for its future. They met in Las Vegas for the annual Colorado River Water Users Association, or CRWUA, conference.

The library at Upland Terrace Elementary School, part of the Granite School District in Salt Lake City, July 31, 2024.

With Utah’s statewide book bans, 2 school districts have steered the conversation

According to a KUER analysis of public records, 25 books are teetering on the edge of being banned statewide.

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