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 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 the Salt Lake City Weekly, The Daily Herald and The Park Record. Brian Wimmer, president of the Trout Unlimited chapter of Utah County, has been casting his flies into the Middle Provo River for years. He’s learned that it doesn’t matter...