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Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is mourning the discovery this week of another 751 bodies of Indigenous children at a former residential school in Canada. And he’s bracing for the Department of the Interior’s investigation into what happened at schools here in the U.S. — including one in Utah.
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Emily Means/KUERA new permanent supportive housing complex for people leaving homelessness had its grand opening in downtown Salt Lake City Thursday. But across town, city and county officials shut down a large homeless encampment near the Jordan River. -
Lexi Peery/KUERDixie State officials have recommended renaming the school Utah Polytechnic State University. Students and community members rallied Wednesday against the name.
Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist working in British Columbia. Confused by a problem plaguing the forest, she set out on a quest to find the solution and, in doing so, discovered more about the complex interactions of forest ecosystems than she could have ever imagined.
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Rep. Mike Winder, R-West Valley City, is hoping Utah’s experiment with ranked-choice voting at the local level will pay off. He wants to resurrect legislation to bring ranked-choice voting to some statewide elections. -
Park City officials said a proposed contaminated soil repository is seen as a socially responsible choice for the city. Residents argue there’s not enough information to move forward.
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Republican Rep. Kera Birkeland Proposes Funding Statewide De-escalation Training For Law EnforcementMembers of Utah law enforcement agencies were recently introduced to a de-escalation training focused on building relationships with communities. Now, one state legislator wants to require police across the state to take it.
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Up until 2019, the agency regulating Utah’s massive youth treatment industry rarely cited facilities for violating rules – even after cases of abuse. After a 2016 incident left a teenager with a concussion, state regulators listened to his mom’s complaint – and then did nothing about it.
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One in five Generation Z members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual — or any other sexual orientation besides heterosexual, according to analysis of a national survey conducted ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll analyzed the data for Religion News Service. They discussed their findings with KUER.
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Moab residents gathered Monday night at a local bookstore to read pieces they wrote about the Pack Creek Fire. It has scorched almost 9,000 acres in the nearby La Sal Mountains.
This summer, KUER producer Benjamin Bombard is traveling around Utah looking for places that are…extra. Extreme. His first mission: to find the darkest place — above ground — in the state. He just might have found it among the redrock spires of Kodachrome State Park.
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