As advocates seek Board of Pardons' compliance with audit, inmates languish under arbitrary sentences.
by Stephen Dark
Iosepa comes alive for a weekend to celebrate exodus centennial.
by Jordan Floyd
Stacking up 18 congressional hopefuls on the Chaffetz-O-Meter.
by Dylan Woolf Harris
Oh, what a year!
It was a bright cool day in June, and Salt Lake City was aching for something different.
By Enrique Limón
May 31, 2017
Battle lines deepen in Moab over controversial police officer's return to duty.
Of the four Moab officers whom Grand County prosecutor Andrew Fitzgerald complained to the city about last fall, Steven Risenhoover is the only one still on the force.
By Stephen Dark
May 24, 2017
A cowboy boot-wearing Rep. Stewart offers 'nebulous' answers during town hall.
Rep. Chris Stewart's town hall meeting on Friday, May 12, in Richfield was subdued compared to the raucous crowd that confronted him in Salt Lake City last March.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
May 17, 2017
Written off by the DEA, spice is making a resurgence among Salt Lake City's marginalized communities.
On April 3, 2017, a woman and her 14-year-old son were selling spice near the downtown homeless shelter.
By Stephen Dark
May 10, 2017
A rare tour of Utah's expansive and secretive Army testing facility.
In Utah's West Desert, toxic chemicals are stored beyond a double-locked door inside a fortified lab.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
May 3, 2017
A Millcreek resident advising the city on a wildfire plan, draws on a wealth of experience.
To her eyes, they represent, "a very high wildland-urban interface," meaning that nature and homes are smacked up against each other and the potential for a wildland fire engulfing the fledgling city's houses is all too apparent.
By Stephen Dark
May 3, 2017
Developers, preservationists at odds over Granite High's future.
The Granite High School buildings could be added to a national historic registry then reduced to a pile of rubble months later.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
April 26, 2017
With lawmakers dropping regulations, state food truck industry motors on.
Remember when Marco Gutierrez, founder of Latinos for Trump, went on MSNBC and warned that in Hillary Clinton's America, cities would be inundated with taco trucks on every corner?
By Dylan Woolf Harris
April 19, 2017
As the slopes close for the season, a crafter of custom skis prepares to make it through another summer.
When spring blossoms emerge in Salt Lake City, an ominous sense of closure enshrouds those who depend on the ski industry for their livelihood.
By Stephen Dark
April 19, 2017
Inside Ogden's IRS connection.
A pack of fiscal conservatives did in 2015 what fiscal conservatives do. They proposed slashes to the federal government, the most glaring suggestion of which was to disband the IRS.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
April 12, 2017
Glendale resident's plan calls for a new linear nature park system.
On a late autumn afternoon, the silty stream is still low, a stark contrast to the surging waterway Wheeler's photographs depict from more than 30 years ago.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
April 5, 2017
A pedophile's right to defend himself in court clashes with a minor's desperation to escape his toxic legacy.
As Gordian knots go, the one defense attorney Ed Wall presented to the Utah Court of Appeals on March 23 required a particularly sharp sword.
By Stephen Dark
April 5, 2017
Salt Lake County aims, struggles to learn from SLC's homeless facilities debacle.
For a moment, at the center of a huddle, questions were foisted upon Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams faster than he could dish out responses. Inside the Utah Cultural Celebration Center on March 21, residents of West Valley City and South Salt Lake had circled around the mayor and demanded to know, for example, whether he would tolerate homeless folks milling about in his neighborhood, why the southern end of the valley didn't have a shelter and whose tax dollars were at stake.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
March 29, 2017
While a repackaged hate-crimes bill stalled in the legislative session, a Blue Lives Matter bill sailed through.
After years of failing to get Republican support for hate-crime legislation that would put some teeth into the law, advocates were optimistic that the 2017 session might finally bring victory.
By Stephen Dark
March 22, 2017
A complicated relationship.
By the time Mormon settlers peered down into what would become known as the Salt Lake Valley and spotted a large lake too salty to bathe in, they probably longed for a stiff drink. Lucky for them, the section of LDS scripture that addresses dietary rules, commonly called the Word of Wisdom, was more a suggested guideline at the time, rather than the unbending commandment it is now.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
March 22, 2017
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