A new report attempts to document the number of indigenous women missing or murdered in 71 cities across the U.S. According to its data, Salt Lake City ranks in the top 10.
by Kelan Lyons
Officials in Utah’s fastest-growing county are obscuring details of what a high-stakes project will cost taxpayers.
by Emma Penrod
A new Facebook page has been getting a lot of attention by people who want to share their often-horrific church stories.
by Rich Kane
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Reduced to an empty lot picked at by developers, Granite High’s historic specter still haunts South Salt Lake.
Piles of soil lay beside partially- and fully-finished houses. A large green-and-white sign sits beside the homes, advertising the community's new name: Granite Legacy.
By Kelan Lyons
November 14, 2018
Cover Story
Inmate deaths plague Salt Lake County jail.
Utah is one of 20 states that does not require jail inspections or independent oversight.
By Christopher Smart
November 7, 2018
Cover Story
PLUS: Prop 2 madness, awful political ads, an ode to Orrin and more!
In this special midterm election issue, we say goodbye to Sen. Orrin Hatch and help you figure out how to vote on each ballot initiative, in a fun, gently mocking, alt-weekly way.
By Ray Howze and Kelan Lyons
October 31, 2018
Cover Story
Amid a desolate mess in a Grand County ghost town, a young woman resurrects a home.
The La Sal Mountains rise up south of Eileen's home, and Cisco stands in the Cisco Desert, in an exposed, waterless low spot that one book describes without irony as "a hole."
By Sarah Gilman
October 24, 2018
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Inside the real fight against #FakeNews.
That narrative about widespread panic is actually a more long-term form of fake news, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow have documented in a series of articles over the past decade.
By Paul Rosenberg
October 17, 2018
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Thanks to video-teleconferencing, Salt Lake City immigration court judges can decide the fates of immigrants held in a detention center 856 miles away.
An Executive Office for Immigration Review fact sheet states that VTC saves immigration judges travel time, helps them to hear more cases and allows them to help out their counterparts stationed in other courts with more sizable backlogs.
By Kelan Lyons
October 10, 2018
Cover Story
How one group is shifting the male-dominated world of skateboarding.
"I believe the women's skateboarding scene right now is thriving,"
By Jordan Floyd
October 3, 2018
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Death is a topic most avoid talking or thinking about. But some locals are trying to change that.
When she was diagnosed with terminal cancer at age 84, she decided against chemotherapy, which could have extended her life but would have left her feeling miserable—a cure perhaps worse than the disease.
By Rich Kane
September 26, 2018
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For more than 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been a public lands windfall. A victim of a slashed budget, it could become a ghost of its former self by month's end.
It’s unlikely that a stand-alone piece of legislation would be passed at this point, but it could be slipped into another big legislative item that also needs to be passed.
By Tara Lohan
September 19, 2018
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Reading? Pssshhh. It's 2018. Who reads anymore?
The world might be changing faster than we can keep up with it, and sometimes it feels like the written word could be on the verge of becoming an endangered species.
By Michael D. Ferry, City Weekly Readers, Scott Renshaw and Sarah Arnoff
September 12, 2018
Cover Story
Once mighty, monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling across the state.
The pollinator species is known for its annual migration, thousands of miles long, and its multigenerational return north.
By Ray Howze
September 5, 2018
Cover Story
Electric scooters have descended on our sleepy metropolis—and not everyone is happy.
Currently operating in 19 and 22 states, respectively, titans Bird and Lime have swept the country and quickly become as ubiquitous as they are controversial.
By Kelan Lyons
August 29, 2018
Cover Story
With urbanization sprawling west, one of the most important landscapes in the western hemisphere—the wetlands of the Great Salt Lake—is at risk of disappearing.
According to Neville, humans began modifying the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands almost as soon as they arrived on the scene, and very few of Utah’s
wetlands remain untouched.
By Emma Penrod
August 23, 2018
Cover Story
Meet the young Utahns working to save the lives of people from across our gun-loving state.
Six months ago, on Feb. 14, a tragic set of actions changed thousands of lives in Parkland, Fla.
By Kelan Lyons
August 15, 2018
Cover Story
We have the lagers!
Brews, glorious brews!
By Enrique Limón, Scott Renshaw, Sarah Arnoff, Ray Howze, Katharine Biele, Lance Gudmundsen, Darby Doyle and Kelan Lyons
August 8, 2018
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