(KCPW News – AUDIO follows text) Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Tuesday raised an alarm about a surge in coronavirus cases in the state, and about a resulting crisis for Utah’s healthcare system. During a coronavirus briefing at the state capitol Tuesday morning, Cox said that Utah recently reached an unwelcome milestone. “For the first…
Latter-day Saint apostle Jeffrey R. Holland criticizes BYU faculty members and students who challenge the faith’s teachings on same-sex marriage. A Utah school board member draws fire for posting a message critical of LGBTQ students. And research points to a likely burial site of Paiute children who attended an Indigenous boarding school in Utah. At…
President Joe Biden has set an August 31st deadline to finalize the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden says he will stick to that deadline and to the deal president Donald Trump made with the Taliban last year – a deal that committed the U.S. to leaving in a quick timeframe and that included promises by…
Salt Lake City’s mayor pursues a mask order for schools to slow the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. History packets falsely asserting that “most slaves were generally treated kindly” in the United States get pulled from a Utah learning center. And a first-ever water shortage is declared for the Colorado River, casting doubt…
Humans are warming the planet, that warming is triggering extreme weather events and other detrimental outcomes, and “unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions, things will get much worse. Those are among the findings of the latest United Nations report assessing the scientific knowledge on climate change. The document, titled…
Humans are warming the planet, that warming is triggering extreme weather events and other detrimental outcomes, and “unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions, things will get much worse. Those are among the findings of the latest United Nations report assessing the scientific knowledge on climate change. The document, titled…
In a 6-3 party-line vote, the Salt Lake County Council votes to overturn the public health school mask order issued by county health director Dr. Angela Dunn. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues a new call to its members to wear masks and get vaccinated. And the latest census figures cement Utah’s…
Today on “In the Hive,” we feature a conversation with Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. Last week, Gill announced that he would not be filing criminal charges against West Valley City Police Sgt. Tyler Longman in the shooting death of Michael Chad Breinholt. On August 23, 2019, Sgt. Longman shot and killed 31-year-old…
Researchers in Utah are raising the alarm about the potential collapse of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem as low water levels threaten to destroy fragile colonies of microbes that underpin that system. Michael Van Denberg, senior geologist with the Utah Geological Survey says that underwater reef-like rock mounds called microbialites, are at risk of being…
Today on “In the Hive,” we venture into the forest with Dr. Bryn Dentinger, curator of mycology for the Natural History Museum of Utah and associate professor of biology at the University of Utah. Dentinger says that fungi, as a category, are probably most easily defined by what they are not: neither plants nor animals.…
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