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Utah is home to more than 1,000 native bees. But those species are more in jeopardy than the honeybee population.
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Sean Higgins/KUERAs city and county leaders ponder Salt Lake’s future as a hub for arts, culture, sports and entertainment, lovers of the Utah Symphony say keeping Abravanel Hall in its present form is well worth the hefty price tag. -
Carolyn Kaster/AP, fileMany Native Americans in Utah who want to become a therapist have not been able to pass the final exam. But state lawmakers made a big change this year — as of May, prospective therapists no longer have to pass that test to get licensed.
Mary Beard is an expert on the Roman Empire, and her latest book is about the rulers who presided over it — 30 emperors in nearly three centuries. You'll find no dusty chronology of men here, though. In typical Mary Beard fashion, she's interested in larger questions about those men, like the nature of power they wielded, their personalities, their relationships and how the people imagined them.
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The University of Utah was expected to host a presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Now, that might not be the case. -
A new report from the Bureau of Land Management highlights how a proposed highway through protected land north of St. George could increase wildfire risk and harm endangered desert tortoises. -
The June 10 expiration deadline for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act is fast approaching. Utah members of the downwinder community say a “last ditch effort” is underway to save the program. -
A proposed water rights settlement for three Native American tribes in Arizona has taken a significant step forward with an introduction in the Navajo Nation Council. It's the first of many approvals needed to finalize a deal decades in the making. -
As part of their “Shovel Bums” club, private school students from Sandy are learning about and protecting Native American rock art along the shore of Utah Lake. -
New findings about sublimation explain how snow is lost to evaporation before it can melt. The data can help form better predictions about water supplies from the Colorado River. -
Bombay Beach was once a thriving resort community along California’s largest lake. Now more exposed playa than water, the Salton Sea’s disappearance is a mirror to the Great Salt Lake. -
Even after a wet winter, the runoff that’s forecast to flow downstream in Utah’s Colorado River Basin looks underwhelming compared to snowpack levels. -
Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera says teams uncovered the bodies Friday morning. The men — 23-year-old Andrew Cameron of Utah and 32-year-old Austin Mallet of Montana — were killed in a snowslide Thursday morning in the area of Lone Peak.
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