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How Ogden native Bernard DeVoto and his wife Avis saved the West
October 29, 2022

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of a once very famous Utah native. Today, though, the name Bernard DeVoto may not be familiar to you. Indeed, few people inside of his native state r

What is a co-op grocery store, anyway?
October 20, 2022

Over the past few years, you have undoubtedly seen signs that say Salt Lake needs a food co-op on lawns in front of houses or businesses or at the downtown farmers market. The Wasatch Cooperative Ma

Salt Lake City’s $85 million parks, trails and open space bond
October 14, 2022

If you live in Salt Lake City, youll see on your November ballot an $85 million bond proposal. If approved, it would allow for the largest single expenditure on park and open space improvements in th

While Inland Port presses pause, logistics expert says there’s no market for rail hub
September 29, 2022

In a white paper published this week, a logistics expert said his analysis showed that there is no market in Salt Lake City and its surroundings for a key part of the Utah Inland Port. Dr. Robert Leac

Learning about Lichen with BYU’s Dr. Steve Leavitt (via Science Moab)
September 22, 2022

Whether on rock or vegetation, lichen can be found all around us and play surprising and complex roles. Steve Leavitt, an evolutionary biologist at Brigham Young University, is the curator of the lich

Proposed SLC zoning changes aim to increase ‘missing middle’ and ‘shared’ housing
September 14, 2022

The Salt Lake City Council is considering a suite of changes to zoning ordinances. The proposed changes include amending rules for areas of the city zoned as RMF-30, in an effort to increase so-call

Gerrymandering lawsuit in Utah aims to change boundaries of electoral maps
August 26, 2022

This week, a Utah court heard a request by state attorneys to throw out a lawsuit challenging the way the legislature redrew political boundaries through a contentious redistricting process. The suit,

A rare, audible, meteor skips across Utah’s skies – mimicking an earlier event
August 18, 2022

Today on In the Hive, we have aconversation with NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah Patrick Wiggins about something that is generally seen but not heard. Most meteors are so small and so far aw

Chance discovery of ancient footprints extends our understanding of Utah’s human history
August 11, 2022

In early July, Dr. Daron Duke, an archaeologist who does field work on the the U.S. Militarys Utah Test and Training Range was driving inside the base with a colleague, a research scientist from Corn

Monkeypox questions answered — and a personal story (via City Cast Salt Lake)
August 04, 2022

Today on In the Hive, we piggyback on some coverage provided this week by City Cast Salt Lake onthe local spread of monkeypox. To date there have bee 42 cases of the viral disease in Utah, the bulk