After two-and-half years of construction, Utah drivers have seven more miles of highway to drive on the Salt Lake Valley’s west side. Saturday, UDOT will open the largest section of the Mountain View Corridor. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on the project’s progress so far, and what’s left to do.
Election Day is just 25 days away. And for voters in one Utah township, it’s also the day when they will decide whether to become a city or stay a part of unincorporated Salt Lake County. Residents of Millcreek Township still pondering the issue were invited to a town hall meeting at Skyline High School last night, and as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, many say it’s a decision they won’t make lightly.
Brain injuries are an everyday occurrence in Utah. Thursday, more than 300 professionals and people closest to the issue met at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy for the 23rd Annual Family and Professionals Conference. Ron Roskos, Executive Director of the Brain Injury Alliance of Utah, says 56,000 Utahns are living with a long-term disability caused by brain injury.
After 20 years on the job, one federal employee decided to draw more attention to the way the Bureau of Land Management is run while on his way out. Stan Olmstead retired from the BLM’s Vernal (VER-null) Field Office last month, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, before he did, he sent a memo out to his colleagues across the state, hoping to draw attention to what he calls a broken agency.
Before he was a politician, he was a teacher, and Tuesday, Utah Congressman Rob Bishop took on that role again by holding an education conference at the Utah State Capitol. KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports on what students learned.
The next leader of Utah’s public schools has been chosen. Monday, the State Board of Education voted unanimously to hire Martell Menlove, who is currently deputy superintendent, as the new superintendent of public instruction. Menlove says he feels his career path over the past 35 years has prepared him for this position.
This week marks Mental Illness Awareness Week, an opportunity to learn more about serious mental illnesses. Utah experts say one in four adults experience a mental health problem, but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, they say the key is information and diagnosing the problem early.
If it wasn’t women’s rights, it was public education or numerous other political issues that Esther Landa has spent her life working on. Now, just months before her 100th birthday, the Salt Lake City resident and League of Women Voters member is still actively involved, and as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, she says that is one secret to her longevity.
(KCPW News) Salt Lake City welcomes visitors every day, but twice a year, Utah’s capital city fills with tens of thousands of Latter-Day Saint faithful from across the world anxious to get a seat at General Conference. This weekend will be the 182nd semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day…
Salt Lake City is now home to a six-foot-tall baby girl… who happens to be a giraffe. The new giraffe was born at Hogle Zoo a week and a half ago and is now out for everyone to meet. Primary Giraffe Keeper Cindy Segneri says Kipenzi, the nine-year-old mother, was pregnant for 14 months before starting to deliver while out on exhibit.
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