The following story was reported by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com. The reporting was funded with support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. SALT LAKE CITY — He was very charismatic in the beginning. He told the women he was a pilot, a marine biologist or...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly. A $3,000 stay at a French chateau; a wedding registry website; a $900 visit to a steakhouse, TopGolf, a bowling alley, hunting and pickleball clubs, carwashes and phone repair services. These are a few of the ways Utah...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER, The Standard-Examiner and St. George News. The opioid epidemic has had a profound toll on social worker Mindy Vincent. First, she buried her sister, who died from an opioid overdose in 2014. During the next decade, over 40 of her clients...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah Stories. St. George, Utah, and Las Vegas may be worlds apart culturally, but the two share a number of important characteristics when it comes to water conservation: low rainfall, high temperatures, heavy tourism and rapid population growth. Both are also...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with St. George News, The Daily Herald, The Standard Examiner and KSL.com. (Haz clic aquí para leer el texto en español) SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns hoping to access a popular public housing program face long waits and difficulty finding units in...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. For several months last year, Utah sent reports of suspected child abuse and neglect on the Navajo Nation to outdated email addresses. The communication gap went on for four to five months before anyone noticed, state officials...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. When social worker Jules Martinez met one teen client, it seemed like the boy had given up: he’d dropped out of school, started selling drugs and stopped speaking with his mother. He’d been hospitalized multiple times for aggression...
Written and translated by Sydnee Chapman Gonzalez The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Telemundo Utah. (Para leer el texto en español vaya a la mitad del artículo.) October 2022 seemed like the accumulation of progress for many Latino Utahns as Gov. Spencer Cox carved out an evening...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com, The Standard Examiner and St. George News. MILLCREEK — Ivette Vickory loves her Millcreek apartment, but seeing her rent nearly double since she moved into the complex in 2009 has been hard to stomach. Then she found out rent could...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Kamal Bewar insists the campfire was out. But when he, his friends and their children returned to their site at Storm Mountain Picnic Area last summer, they found a note accusing them of having left it burning....