The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER. It was written and reporter by Sydnee Chapman and Eric S. Peterson. Michael Christian had struggled with addiction for the better part of a decade when he learned about The Other Side Academy on TikTok. The handful of treatment programs he...
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 Utah Stories. The trek into the office is a necessary evil for many employees; it’s unpaid time that could be spent elsewhere. But some state employees are able to cash in on their commutes. That includes one member of Gov. Spencer...
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. Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby is under criminal investigation by the Summit County Attorney’s Office for obstruction of justice. Investigators are now questioning whether Rigby attempted to leverage accusations against a political opponent to influence the high-profile Kouri...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Salt Lake City Weekly. When Utah officials awarded a tax credit to one of the state’s largest oil companies, at least one member of the voting board knew that environmentalists would make noise about a corporate handout to a multi-billion-dollar company. The...
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 Utah News Dispatch. Garfield County has received tens of thousands of dollars in opioid settlement money, but a lack of records and conflicting statements from county officials raise questions about whether the county is using the money to plug holes in...
The following story was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. When a Unified police lieutenant tried to pull body-worn camera footage for a case where the suspect had confessed to arson and attempted homicide, he discovered something curious. The...