Behind the Headlines

Tribune reporters Jessica Miller, Julie Jag and Tony Semerad, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke join this week to talk about the top stories, including nearly half of Utah’s wilderness programs for ‘troubled teens’ closing in the last year.

Tribune reporters Emily Anderson Stern, Megan Banta and Andy Larsen join this week to talk about the top stories, including a look at which college majors give Utah students the most (and least) returns over their career.

Tribune reporters Carmen Nesbitt, Michael Lee and Tamarra Kemsley, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke join to talk about the week’s top stories, including school districts awaiting a statewide book ban list as Utah plans to retroactively enforce a new law.

Tribune reporters Palak Jayswal, Emily Anderson Stern and Andy Larsen join this week to talk about the week’s top stories, including Natalie Cline losing her Utah school board seat.

Tribune reporters Anastasia Hufham, Palak Jayswal and Emily Anderson Stern, along with news columnist Robert Gehrke join to talk about the week’s top stories, including efforts to reduce pressure on a cracked Panguitch dam.

In a climate setback, Rocky Mountain Power now says it plans to burn coal in Utah until 2042, how health care shortages affect rural Utahns — and what the state is doing to help, and Salt Lake City says the owner must restore the partly demolished Fifth Ward Latter-day Saint meetinghouse.

On this episode, Utah backs abortion pill restrictions, the Utah Pride Center’s leader is leaving after just 6 months in the job, and while Utah courts Major League Baseball, little leaguers in Salt Lake City face a future without the sport.

On this episode, BYU will require incoming students to read apostle Jeffrey Holland’s controversial ‘musket speech, Supporters want to build a 300-foot statue at Point of the Mountain, and Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed seven bills from the Utah Legislature at the deadline.

On this episode, a trans woman harmed herself while in a Utah prison; now the federal Department of Justice may file a lawsuit, and the Utah Legislature passed its coal agenda; what’s next for power plants and your utility bills?

On this episode, Brighton shotgun confrontation, allegations against a medical worker and BYU-Idaho rescinds an invite.

On this episode we discuss school safety, abortion politics and an immigrant odyssey.

On this episode of Behind the Headlines, Natalie Cline’s troubles grow, Cache elections criticized and gravel pit worries resurface.

On this episode we discuss equity training being now discriminatory, tithing lawsuits against the LDS Church; and Utah’s coal agenda.

Gov. Spencer Cox signs an anti-DEI bill prohibiting diversity efforts he once championed, a transgender bathroom ban takes effect, and a judge said a Salt Lake City man could go to rehab after jail, so why did no one take him there before he died?

On this episode, fear of lawsuits shifts Utah lawmakers’ approach to a transgender bill, a Utah lawmaker proposes a ban on polygraph tests for those who report sexual abuse, and an update from the Sundance Film Festival.

On this episode, the Utah Legislature kicks off 2024 with country music and prayer as lawmakers eye energy and education policies, multilevel marketing in Utah and how it links to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Utah’s national parks and the towns around them are getting busier; Here’s how it’s changing visits.

Utah legislators target college diversity offices and hiring efforts. Four Salt Lake City elementary schools will permanently shut down. And how hosting the Olympics could impact Salt Lake City’s bad air.

Utah lawmakers who approved a luxury ski resort took in donations from the developer, the Latter-day Saint Temple Square of tomorrow could transform Salt Lake City’s downtown, and because their water is poisoned, Navajo in San Juan County rely on a church well for water.