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A farmer works an alfalfa field in Colorado's Grand Valley on September 8, 2018. The System Conservation Pilot Program is a short-term plan designed to incentivize water cutbacks on the region's farms and ranches. Water managers hope to use what they learn from its rollout to inform longer-term conservation plans.

Colorado River’s Upper Basin will re-up plan to pay farmers and ranchers to use less water

The System Conservation Pilot Program is ready to spend additional millions from the Inflation Reduction Act to save water in the agriculture industry through 2024.

Kylee Howell, owner of Friar Tuck’s Barbershop, Sept. 6, 2023. She and her wife, Jen, moved to Helper after living in Salt Lake City for decades.

For this queer barbershop, Helper, Utah, has ‘everything you need to be who you are’

Tucked inside Carbon County lies Helper, Utah – a place with a vibrant LGBTQ+ community. KUER's State Street podcast stopped in to check it out.

On Scene Commander of Recovery Jasmine Nakayama attaches the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to a helicopter for transport to the cleanroom, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, shortly after the capsule landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

What it was like on the ground in Utah as NASA’s asteroid sample stuck its landing

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.”

A wildlife agent holds an invasive rusty crayfish that was found in Grand Lake in September 2023. The species can pose a threat to other fish and plants, and Colorado Wildlife is focused on stopping it from spreading to other nearby bodies of water.

Officials are on alert after the rusty crawfish shows up near the Colorado River

The invasive rusty crayfish was discovered in Lake Granby, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife is concerned because of its proximity to the Colorado River.

Ogden Mayoral Debate

2023 Ogden Mayoral Debate, Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m.

Park City’s Church of Dirt offers breathtaking views of the Wasatch mountains. But what started out as a little-known community space is now plagued by overuse.

The beauty and whimsy of Park City’s Church of Dirt has now become its curse

City officials worry that the picturesque venue is suffering from a “privatization” of public open space.

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.

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.

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