KUER Local News

Pretty Bird is new to downtown Salt Lake City and it’s offering a spin on a growing food craze: Nashville Hot Chicken. If you’ve never had hot chicken, it’s pretty self-explanatory, fried chicken that makes you sweat. But does this new spot live up to the name?

In our series Hive Mind, listeners ask questions about different topics and KUER reporters try to answer them. This week you asked … how many of those new apartment complexes in Salt Lake City are affordable?

In our series Hive Mind , listeners ask questions about different topics and KUER reporters try to answer them. This week you asked-how much affordable housing is acceptable and who decides it?

From politics to public lands, 2017 was another big year of local news. KUER reporters recap some of the top stories of the year and why they mattered.

Utahns love candy and not just during the holidays. They eat more per capita than any other state — and some of that candy is made here. Salt water taffy seems to get the most attention, but there's another candy with much truer Utah roots.

Salt Lake's KRCL is getting a new general manager from close to home. KUER's content director, Tristin Tabish , will lead the community music station beginning next month. For Tristin , who's been with KUER the last two decades, it's a return to her roots. We talked to Tristin about her goals for the station and how the FM radio industry has changed since her early days.

The Salt Lake City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency decided where to put $17.6 million dollars that was set aside for affordable housing.

The manhunt that lasted through Monday night ended Tuesday when the suspect in a fatal shooting at the U turned himself in.

The town of Wellsville has decided to revamp its annual “ Sham Battle ,” a yearly tradition where residents paint themselves red to dramatize Native Americans attacking Mormon settlers.

The Salt Lake City Police Department has put a second officer on administrative leave, because of bodycam footage showing a University of Utah nurse being arrested forcibly.

State and local leaders have launched a new campaign to curb panhandling, and it doesn’t mince words.

UPDATE: KUER learned late Thursday that one of the kids featured in this story, D.P., plagiarized his contest winning the poem “Drowning in Blue”. Much of the poem, including the title, was taken from the poet and novelist Ellen Hopkins. Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings has removed the poem from its website and has awarded first place to a young poet from Wyoming. Several juvenile offenders in Utah got high honors this week for their submissions to a national poetry

Salt Lake City will likely have a long-term plan for its municipal cemetery by the end of June. The historic green space is running out of plots to sell and needs extensive repairs.

The organization in charge of three new planned homeless shelters in Salt Lake County has decided which populations will go in which shelter.

All Families living at The Road Home shelter in downtown Salt Lake City will move out of the facility by July if all goes as planned. Utah lawmakers on Tuesday approved that recommendation and some additional funding for The Road Home’s Midvale family shelter.