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.
by Tara Lohan
Reading? Pssshhh. It's 2018. Who reads anymore?
by Michael D. Ferry, City Weekly Readers, Scott Renshaw and Sarah Arnoff
Once mighty, monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling across the state.
by Ray Howze
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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
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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
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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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With increased visitation and crumbling infrastructure, national parks need money. But President Trump wants to cut even more of their funding.
Crowded visitor centers, crumbling roads and aging buildings—those are the sights at many of America’s national parks, caused by years of chronic underfunding.
By Daria Bachmann
August 1, 2018
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Examining the hurdles Utah has to jump through to clear the way for medical cannabis.
Doc started smoking marijuana when he was 13 years old, around when a physician diagnosed him with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
By Kelan Lyons, Ray Howze, Jordan Floyd and Rich Kane
July 25, 2018
Cover Story
Let the spirits move you!
Lock the doors, lower the blinds, fire up the smoke machine and bust out your martini shaker—our annual A-Z cocktail guide is here!
By Darby Doyle
July 18, 2018
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Contamination cleanup on inland port site could be possible, but it won’t be easy—or cheap.
A number of reasons are emerging as to why development plans in Salt Lake's Northwest Quadrant have rarely been realized.
By Emma Penrod
July 11, 2018
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Inside Ryan McKnight’s crusade for transparency within the LDS Church.
The black Dodge Caravan zigzags down scorching Black Canyon and crosses over Hoover Dam into Arizona, a glorious one-party consent state where Ryan McKnight, a 37-year-old scruffy, tattooed ex-Mormon, won't have to ask for permission to record his phone calls.
By Kelan Lyons
July 4, 2018
MormonLeaks Ryan McKnight November Policy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints LDS
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Enter the exciting, adorable world of professional cat shows.
At Ring 2 in the Hotel RL Ballroom, Adriana Kajon wrangles somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 pounds of feline from a cage onto a waist-high table that looks a lot like a stage.
By Scott Renshaw
June 27, 2018
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In a debate over city documents, the Jordan River Restoration Network’s years-long battle over GRAMA and its cost could come to an end.
Whether the conversation's about the Jordan River or developments on the Great Salt Lake, Jeff Salt's name almost always pops up.
By Ray Howze
June 20, 2018
Cover Story
This Van's A-rockin'
... and so will you by the time you're done reading our special Summer Festival preview.
By Jordan Floyd, Nick McGregor and Alex Springer
June 13, 2018
Cover Story
Immigrant or Refugee? For many foreign nationals, the line can be blurred.
Khalid Al Hachami knows that if he goes home to Iraq to see his family, he's going to have trouble getting around.
By Kelan Lyons
June 6, 2018
Cover Story
The most fabulous issue of the year is here.
By Enrique Limón, Carolyn Campbell, Sarah Arnoff, Rich Kane and Nick McGregor
May 30, 2018
Cover Story
Make It Pop
Our ode to the North Shore Monster and things fun in the sun in SLC.
By Enrique Limón, Jordan Floyd, Sarah Arnoff, Darby Doyle, Kelan Lyons, Lance Gudmundsen, Scott Renshaw, Dash Anderson, Rachelle Fernandez, Nic Renshaw, Ray Howze, Alex Springer, Samantha Herzog, Amanda Rock and David Riedel
May 23, 2018
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