Meet the energetic Jazz employee who refuses to hang up his headset in the offseason.
by Dylan Woolf Harris
So. Many. Shows. Here are City Weekly’s top picks you gotta see.
by Randy Harward
A Maori Mormon wants the church held accountable for erasing his New Zealand heritage.
by Stephen Dark
Why a former left-leaning ex-oil exec. wants you and all your friends to join the Republican party.
As a long line queues up to get inside West High School on an early Friday evening, people shift their weight from one leg to the next.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
May 10, 2017
New technology allows scientists to see the forces behind the flames.
Aircraft N2UW has flown through all kinds of weather.
By Douglas Fox
May 3, 2017
My life as a former drug dealer, new father and future inspiration.
Gabriel Estrada Zamora was released from jail on Feb. 7, 2015, after serving five months for drug possession and paraphernalia charges.
By Stephen Dark
April 26, 2017
How Donald Trump has increased interest in the lives and tactics of longtime tax resisters.
Rod Nippert grew up on a farm with 40,000 turkeys in the Appalachian Mountains in southeastern Ohio. He wanted to escape the life of a farm boy as quickly as he could.
By Mary Finn
April 12, 2017
Long burdened by ill health and poverty, a westside community strives to turn the page.
Once a week, C.J. Withers—owner of We Witches 3, a spiritual supply store on Main Street in downtown Magna—casts a spell for prosperity.
By Stephen Dark
April 5, 2017
As media interest fizzles, the battle at Standing Rock continues.
>Militarized police destroyed the encampments in North Dakota late last month, but judging by the momentum that lingers, the movement born at Standing Rock is just getting started. The peaceful fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is still playing out in court, and campaigns against similar pipelines are growing in Washington state, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida.
By Max Mogren
March 29, 2017
How an elderly, dementia-stricken man ended up owing Salt Lake County $36,063.
Knowing her father as nothing if not a law-abiding, careful man, Tiffany Janzen was nonplussed to learn last May that investigators were snooping on family property. That month, the West Jordan resident phoned a Salt Lake County District Attorney agent, Lt. Alex Huggard, who had been tipped off to an illegal operation on a 24-acre parcel of land along 2100 South.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
March 22, 2017
Wherein we recognize the year's worst in government transparency.
A thick fog is rolling in over Sunshine Week (March 12-18), the annual event when government transparency advocates raise awareness about the importance of access to public records.
By Aaron Mackey, Dave Maass and Kate Tummarello
March 15, 2017
As Utah State Prison moves beyond using solitary confinement as punishment, mentally ill inmates struggle with its legacy.
>When 25-year-old Jeremy Haas paroled out of the Utah State Prison in May 2015, he went to live with his mother. She took him to the still-blue waters of the Spanish Fork reservoir, where, for the first time in his life, he walked barefoot in sand.
By Stephen Dark
March 8, 2017
45 years later, cold murder case in rural Utah heats up.
Heidi Jones-Asay was 4 years old the day she found her mother dead, lying in a pool of blood. For the next four decades, she kept the fire alive to find the killer.
By Carolyn Campbell and Richard Shaw
February 22, 2017
Why a bug-eating trash bird makes Utah proud.
But here's an even better story, which Utahns refer to as "The Miracle of the Gulls"
By Ryan Cunningham
February 15, 2017
Drunk cops and a game of beer pong bring police misconduct to light.
One hot night in southern Utah in July 2015, the thoughts of two off-duty Moab police officers turned to beer. Then-officer Justin Olsen became so drunk, he later told investigators, he could not remember if underage kids were drinking at a neighbor's party he and his fellow officer crashed.
By Stephen Dark
February 1, 2017
Is there any hope for Planned Parenthood and climate change under the new regime? PLUS we take you inside the inauguration and the DC + SLC Women's Marches.
If President Trump actually believes all his campaign warnings about the threats of immigration, he should now be talking about ways to slow global warming as well.
By Alastair Bland, Baynard Woods, Dylan Woolf Harris and Katharine Biele
January 25, 2017
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