The wildfires in Southern California are on track to become the costliest disaster in U.S. history, and a lot of people are already recognizing that this conflagration is going to send a shockwave through the insurance market.

Nov 25, 2024 · Meghan Collins Sullivan is a senior editor on the Arts & Culture Desk, overseeing non-fiction books coverage at NPR. She has worked at NPR over the last 13 years in various capacities, including as the supervising editor for NPR.org – managing a team of online producers and reporters and editing multi-platform news coverage.

Updated January 03, 2025 at 12:03 PM ET. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling on Congress to require health warning labels that inform consumers about the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer.

Jan 3, 2025 · Great Salt Lake is at its lowest water level on record and continues to shrink. Utah Public Radio has teamed up with more than a dozen Utah organizations for the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a group that has come together to share multimedia stories and rigorous reports about the lake and ways to protect this critical body of water before it's too late.

Dec 23, 2024 · It was March 16, 2023 — barely two months after the report warned that the Great Salt Lake could be headed toward total devastation — and a series of late winter storms meant there was still plenty of snow outside of the Wallace Stegner Center at the University of Utah.. There, Westminster University microbiologist Bonnie Baxter was scheduled to give a conference presentation on the ...

Oct 3, 2024 · Utah Public Radio can be heard via one of the nation's most extensive station and translator networks across the state of Utah and into surrounding states.

Dec 20, 2024 · Tribune reporters Megan Banta, Tony Semerad, and Mark Eddington join host UPR’s Tom Williams to talk about the latest news, including Utah arguing that US Magnesium is ‘unable or unwilling’ to protect the Great Salt Lake as a judge appoints an outsider to run the company, a new road to bring a new era to a Utah City, and a themed remote Utah resort.

Jan 13, 2025 · The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from Utah that hoped to regain control of vast areas of federally controlled public land in the state. Federal agencies combined have jurisdiction over almost 70% of Utah land. Utah’s legal challenge targeted about half of that, leaving national parks ...

Oct 29, 2024 · Ofrenda translates to the word "offering" and refers to a home altar paying respects to people who have passed away. Ofrendas are usually set up during Dia De Los Muertos, which takes place the first two days of November.

Oct 31, 2024 · In Hometown Betrayal, author Emily Benedek takes you behind the closed doors of the remote Mormon community of Clarkston, Utah. With the help of hundreds of individual stories, she pieces together not only what happened to Valarie, …