The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER. In July of this year, Dr. Adam Oskowitz, CEO and cofounder of tech startup Doctronic, strode onto the stage of the “Humans in the Loop” tech conference. He was talking about his company’s partnership with the state of Utah to...
The elections are right around the corner. Do you know your rights? Do you know what should happen at the polls? Do you know what shouldn’t be happening at the polls? We’re hosting a webinar on understanding your voting rights in partnership with the ACLU of Utah. As part of the Let Utah Vote Coalition’s election protection...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly. The Utah Department of Transportation’s decision to buy the property of a former top lawmaker in May for $8 million raised more than eyebrows. Some residents and elected officials raised their voices against the sticker shock of buying...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch and St. George News. A law passed in 2024 allows just three school districts to decide what books can be removed from school library shelves across the state for obscene content. But records obtained by The Utah Investigative...
The following story was reported by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com. SALT LAKE CITY — When a city decides to issue a bond and increase property taxes or other fees on residents, it’s a big deal in Utah. Notices go out, articles are written and people line up at microphones to...
The following story was reported by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com. SALT LAKE CITY — When Don Brown and his wife bought a studio apartment at the exclusive Black Desert resort community outside St. George, they were excited for a smaller place to live that was big on amenities: fine restaurants,...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. In 2024 clean air advocates had high hopes that a $1 million EPA grant could help communities understand how toxic the air in their neighborhoods can be and would install life-saving radon systems in at-risk homes across the...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER. On June 30, 2023, a beaming Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, joined a handful of local politicians to celebrate the completion of the U.S. 89 highway expansion. For years, Davis County commuters had negotiated orange traffic cones while the project...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER. The Salt Lake City airport covers more than 8,000 acres and serves tens of millions of passengers a year. Most of them come and go without thinking much about the airport itself or the land around it, including sensitive wetlands and a...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER. In July 2024, renowned hunting guide Wade Lemon pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor and an infraction for illegal “canned hunts” in 2020 and 2021. He had cornered mountain lions and tricked his hunting clients into thinking the quarry was...