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Everybody seems to agree the Great Salt Lake is in dire straits. So, what can be done to help it?

Everybody seems to agree the Great Salt Lake is in dire straits. So, what can be done to help it?

The city of Jerusalem is widely thought of as the gateway to heaven. And yet, as the journalist Andrew Lawler reveals in a new book, what lay below the Holy City is almost as intriguing as what many believe awaits above it.

Utah is the epicenter of the so-called “troubled-teen” industry, with many programs seeing thousands of young people pass through their doors. And yet, for as many people as this industry has served, until recently, it had little-to-no government oversight.

In the 1970s, a Brigham Young University graduate student named Max Ford McBride conducted an experiment. The goal? To cure homosexuality with shock therapy.

In 1995, Japanese director Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell changed the way audiences — and other filmmakers — thought about animated films.

Listen to the second episode of Sent Away, an investigative partnership between KUER, The Salt Lake Tribune and APM Reports about Utah's youth treatment industry.

Listen to the first episode of Sent Away, an investigative reporting partnership between KUER, The Salt Lake Tribune and APM Reports about Utah's youth treatment industry.

In September of 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated or disfellowshipped six academically-minded members, including former BYU professor and historian Michael Quinn.

Debate is swirling around a proposed project to dredge Utah Lake and use the recovered sediment to build nearly three dozen islands. Proponents of the plan claim it’s the only way to save the ailing lake, while a chorus of detractors say it’s a boondoggle with no scientific basis. But what about the lake itself?