The following story was reported by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com. SALT LAKE CITY — The people who run Utah’s state agencies are required to disclose possible conflicts of interest. But the governor’s office apparently doesn’t think the public has the right to know what those are. In a highly unusual...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. For years, the state has paid millions to Big Game Forever so the organization could lobby for removing the gray wolf from the list of animals protected by the Endangered Species Act. During that time, the nonprofit...
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...
By Eric Peterson and Emma Penrod The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune, with support from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. The urgent call came into the Tooele County 911 dispatcher just after 9:30 one...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Moab Sun. Derek Brown’s campaign website for the attorney general’s race brands him as a “constitutional conservative,” ready to take on the overreach of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. meddling in Utah’s state’s rights. Moab resident Laura Long is also worried...
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....
The following story was supported by funding from The Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism and was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Imagine a hostage situation. A woman is trapped in her home, and her life and the lives of her family members...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project with funding from The Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. Jennifer Andrus didn’t have any bruises. She didn’t have black eyes, or other injuries to her face or head that are considered typical warning...
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The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs, one of a handful of candidates vying for the U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by Mitt Romney, welcomed Florida GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz to stump for him at a recent rally of...