More food options may be coming to Salt Lake City beginning next year. Over the next few weeks the City Council will be discussing whether to change regulations on mobile food businesses that could make it easier for vendors to do business in downtown. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on the proposed changes and why vendors say they are so important.
One Salt Lake County Councilwoman is teaming up with kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart to help make sure kids along the Wasatch Front are learning important safety skills.
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker testified this morning before a congressional subcommittee against a proposal to sell a parcel of national forest land, paving the way for a ski lift between the Canyons and Solitude Mountain Resort. As KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports, Becker told the panel it’s the city’s responsibility to make sure the project doesn’t bypass the environmental reviews and public participation that need to take place before the project is solidified.
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has identified the parasite that causes whirling disease in Strawberry Reservoir.
Following the windstorm that raged through northern Utah Thursday, Davis County has filed a disaster declaration asking the state for assistance.
Segment 1: Will green fees go up at Salt Lake City’s nine public courses? How would golfers react to higher fees on the fairways? And should the city be in the golf business anyway? We’ll take up the questions Monday; the City Council is also asking for citizen feedback at a hearing Tuesday, Dec. 6.…
Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is once again venturing into politics. The founder and CEO of Salt Lake City-based Internet service provider XMission will make another run for the U.S. Senate in 2012, hoping to tackle the influence of money in government.
(KCPW News) Another Republican has thrown his hat in the ring for Governor. Today, Former congressional candidate Morgan Philpot formally announced he will take on Governor Gary Herbert and Republican Representative Ken Sumsion in the 2012 election. Philpot says it is time to elect a governor who has the courage to stand up to the…
Former Democratic Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson says neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are moving the country in a direction that most Americans want to see it go. That’s why he’s establishing his own political party and likely throwing his hat into the 2012 Presidential race.
City officials in Centerville declared a local state of emergency Thursday after high winds wreaked havoc on the city. From Bountiful to Kaysville the windstorm caused toppled semi-trucks and freeway closures, power outages, mail delivery delays, and some school closures. KCPW’s Jessica Gail spoke to several people helping to manage the crisis and reports on how they are handling the storm.
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