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A company spun out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory began survey flights over the Uinta Mountains this year. Water managers are already using the data to manage Colorado River water wisely.
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Rick Bowmer/APRyan Smith, owner of the Utah Jazz and the state's newly relocated hockey team, has given fans 20 winter-leaning choices to vote on for the NHL franchise. -
Sean Higgins/KUERSalt Lake City considers 500 and 600 South as its “grand boulevards.” Upgrades could make the downtown core a much friendlier place for the city’s bikers and pedestrians.
Scholars say the New Testament was authored by these familiar names: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But they had important help: slave labor. That's the part biblical scholar Candida Moss wants to talk about — the enslaved people who helped create the foundational text of Christianity.
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Eighteen tribes that use Colorado River water sent a list of principles to the federal government as contentious talks about how to share the shrinking supply continue. -
The move follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land. -
KUER asked two Utahns — one Palestinian, the other Jewish — about their thoughts on the pro-Gaza student protest movement that has now arrived at the University of Utah. -
Legislators left it up to each school district to decide how it would communicate the changes. Some have held classroom presentations. Others have sent home fact sheets or met privately with families who might be affected. -
Nationally, the CDC is seeing a widening gap in mortality rates between urban and rural communities. -
Nineteen protesters were arrested during the demonstration, but organizers say that won’t stop them from protesting. -
The seven-hour protest in President's Circle, including a tent encampment, was later dispersed by police late into the evening. Seventeen protestors were arrested, according to the University of Utah. -
Snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin — which includes Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico — appears to have peaked on April 3, within a few days of the average. -
After nearly 17 hours, the Utah GOP nominating convention concluded with some surprises along the way.
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