After Ryan Smith, the billionaire owner of the Utah Jazz, bought an NHL team, he needed a better place for them to play. His vision is for an improved arena surrounded by a robust mixed-use development. So he took a group of local and state elected officials to LA in an effort to sell his vision and hopefully win over a billion dollars in tax subsidies.

When state and federal negotiators met in 1922 to divide up the water in the Colorado River, they did so with a mistaken understanding of how much water there actually was in the river. But at the time there was one man who knew, with a surprising degree of accuracy, how much water the river held. The only problem: Nobody wanted to listen to him.

When they arrived in North America 13,000 years ago, humans entered an environment teeming with animal life. But their success here had a devastating effect on other creatures.

Immigration at the southern border has bedeviled Republican and Democratic presidents for decades. Has it reached a crisis point?

The internet is fertile ground for deadly racist ideology. Can parents protect their kids?

They may not seem like much, but those humble and colorful open-air taco carts you see scattered on roadsides and in parking lots across the country, they have an important story to tell.

Gary Evershed has some big ideas to save Great Salt Lake. But will they work?

Clinical study of psychedelic drugs for cancer patients could be a ‘game changer’

This summer, I traveled around Utah looking for places that are … extra. Extreme. In July I visited the hottest place in the state. If you’ve spent any time in Utah, you probably already know where that is.

Megadrought means that Royce Larsen faces a decision that could spell the end of his lifelong dream of living the cowboy life

This summer, I traveled around Utah looking for places that are…extra. Extreme. In June I took my family on the road and went looking for the oldest thing in the state, and we found it. It’s a rock formation in northwestern Utah.

This past summer, I traveled around Utah looking for places that are…extra. Extreme. My first mission: to find the darkest place — above ground — in the state. I just might have found it among the redrock spires of Kodachrome State Park.

What does a humpback whale have to do with Salt Lake City? That's the question swirling around a new public art project planned for the 9th & 9th neighborhood.

There’s a community of former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who believe they’ve found healing and discovered a new sense of spirituality in magic mushrooms.

Over the past several months, I’ve spoken with more than a dozen individuals, all of them once devout, faithful and committed members of the LDS church. For various reasons, they fell away from the faith, and in time, they found psychedelics.

The door to the former bank vault is slightly ajar. In the adjoining, low-ceilinged room, Sohrab Mafi stands below a pair of light-box pictures of bright blue skies partly clouded, struggling to explain irfan, a nuanced mystical concept.

Earlier this summer we saw the removal of a statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. It put our 26th president back in the spotlight, but then again, he never really left it.

Almost 667,000 students in Utah are stuck at home. More than 36,000 educators are trying to teach those kids remotely. And hundreds of thousands of parents are caught in the middle. Nobody saw this coming. Now everybody is trying to figure out, on the fly, how school happens online.

New habits, I’ve found, can be hard to form, even if we now know doing so is in our best interest. Take social distancing, for instance.

Lawmakers wrapped the 2020 Utah legislative session at the stroke of midnight on Thursday. Guest host Benjamin Bombard and a panel of journos gather to take stock of what did – and didn’t – happen on Capitol Hill this year.

I’m taking paternity leave because the health and well-being of my family is priority number one. And I’m using all of it. Not just the 10 days most American dads take, but the full 12 weeks of federally job-protected and unpaid parental leave.

“When I show up at her trailer, Nicole’s dogs are in attack mode, barking murderously and threatening to break their chains.”

The Utah deer and elk archery seasons wrap up across much of the state this Friday. The Division of Wildlife Resources says there are more buck deer in the state than at any time in the last 25 years. KUER’s Benjamin Bombard sends this audio postcard of a recent hunting trip in the Uintas.  

The students didn’t say a word. They sat. They breathed. They felt what they were feeling. “Let go of everything,” Bimstein said. “Every sound. Every thought. Every sense. For one minute: Just be.”

Most mornings, I step out my front door and wonder how the world has changed shape from the day before.

In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqistan.

Driving south on a rural road that beamed through the desert, he smoked a joint and he chewed sunflower seeds to stay awake.

Microdosing mushroom and LSD could be the giant leap in America’s psychedelic future.

Hunting is likely one of the oldest rites in human history, and the connections it provides me and many other hunters are profound.