The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Great Salt Lake Collaborative. In August 2019, an anonymous tipster reported that a company located in Portage, Utah, was illegally dumping chemical waste in ponds, sewers, storm drains and on the ground and had been doing so intentionally for months....
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Great Salt Lake Collaborative. Dead sheep carcasses dumped above the confluence of the Bear River. Ibises at the edge of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge “struggling to rid themselves” of contaminated oil leaked from a nearby property. A business...
The following story is Part 2 of two stories reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune and support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Read Part 1 here. As Utah continued its trend of violating federal air pollution limits, state air quality officials...
Editor’s note: This report contains frank language details of a sexual nature. Reader discretion is advised. The following story was written by Eric S. Peterson, Sydnee Chapman and Tracie Sullivan. The story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with St George News. “Jane” found herself in an impossible situation last fall....
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune and support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. The plumes of mist that drifted toward the Utah Test and Training Range in November 2021 were thick enough that they had begun...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER. Utah could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal paybacks tied to a rural hospital’s use of Medicaid funds. That’s despite years of warnings and a 2017 state audit that flagged the risk. The issue...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch Carlos Trujillo couldn’t sleep despite it being well past midnight. As both an immigrant and an immigration lawyer, Trujillo has been acutely tuned into the volatile nature of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. That night, in the early...
We are excited to announce the newest edition of The Utah Reporters Almanac is here! Every year we produce our Almanac as a resource to journalists and curious and engaged citizens and fill it with information on understanding and accessing open government. In this edition we recapped the 2025 legislative session’s brutal impact on state...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER and the Daily Herald. Firearms, ballistic vests, breathalyzers, police vehicles, wages for law enforcement officers — these are some of the ways counties are using the money they received to combat the opioid crisis. Utah counties have taken a combined...
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...