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Homeowners insurance is getting more expensive, AND harder to keep. In our region, one of the most important causes is climate change-fueled wildfires. Some state leaders are trying to pass reforms.

On this episode we talk with Bonnie Moore about her new novel "Buried Bones: A Maggie Anderson Mystery."

We revisit our conversation with Freeman Ng, author of "Bridge Across The Sky," a young adult novel in verse based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900s.

For decades at the end of the 1800s, the American West was a crucible of change, with the highest murder rate per capita in American history. The reasons behind this boil down to one word: Texas.

The Trump administration is proposing a nearly 25% cut to NASA’s budget as well as deep cuts to space technology funding. We talk about it with Casey Dreier and Christopher Cokinos.

We talk with critically acclaimed MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony Award–nominated playwright and author Sarah Ruhl about her new book.

A new art exhibit presents two perspectives of Glen Canyon: 1950s photos captured before the the dam and contemporary footage chronicling the canyon’s reemergence as water levels recede.

On Thursday, we broadcast from Zion Canyon Mesa in Springdale. We talked to Springdale Mayor Barbara Bruno and Zion Canyon Mesa Executive Director Logan Hebner.

Tim Clare is an author, poet and podcast presenter, and he joins us today to talk about his new book, "Across the Board: How Games Make Us Human."

Jack Lohmann is a writer from Richmond, Virginia. "White Light" is his first book, and he joins us to discuss life and phosphorus.

On this episode we're joined by Cache County Executive David Zook and Michael Jeanfreau, senior economist with the Utah Department of Workforce Services.

It’s time again for us to compile another UPR community booklist. So we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now?

On this year's Earth Day episode we’ll take stock of conservation on Utah’s public lands and ask: What has been accomplished? How was success achieved? What happens next?

Today we’ll look at how several Utah organizations have been affected by recent federal funding cuts, including Utah Humanities, Cannon Heritage Consultants, and Utahns Against Hunger.

While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president — and though history has downplayed her role — just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president.

The Friends of the Logan Library are presenting a screening of the film "Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship," along with a panel discussion. We talk with panel members and discuss book bans.

UPR Co-Station Manager Kerry Bringhurst joins us to talk about the celebrated national storytelling project’s upcoming visit to southern Utah beginning April 24th.

Part travelogue, part memoir, part reporting, Robin Hemley’s book "Borderline Citizen" redefines notions of nationhood by exploring the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong.

We preview the USU Sorenson Center's upcoming Caregiver Burnout Workshop, as well as other services the center provides.

On this episode, we revisit our conversation with Robin Patten about her book "The Mountain: Journeys in High Places."

We're joined by Michael de Yoanna, managing editor of the Mountain West News Bureau.

Kirk Siegler is a national correspondent for NPR News. As a roving reporter, he covers the western U.S. with an emphasis on rural issues, water and the effects of climate change on smaller communities.

Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. We revisit our conversatin from March.

We talk with Dan Murphy, whose collection of poems "Estate Sale" was published by University of Utah Press. He won the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.

Today we’ll mark a decade of USU’s Farm in Literature and Culture course. Our guests include USU lecturers, professors, and a USU student who says the class has had a continuing influence on her life.