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3 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City is looking at increasing rider fees for electric scooters. Officials say they’ll use the money to create more parking spots and better manage their presence in the city. In the last year, over 800,000 people have ridden the city’s electric scooters close to 1 million miles.
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3 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Dan Rascon |Bryanna Willis |Britt Johnson
SALT LAKE CITY — Depending on where you live in Utah, you could already be at risk for wildfires. A new map from the Federal Emergency Management Agency highlights the areas of greatest concern. Counties like Washington, Iron, Tooele, Utah, Summit and Salt Lake are among those facing elevated danger. Fire agencies across the state are not waiting for flames to appear — they’re already hard at work preparing.
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4 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Shara Park |Mariah Maynes |Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City police are asking for help in identifying the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run that took the life of a 67-year-old motorcyclist in the Liberty Wells neighborhood. The incident occurred late Sunday night at approximately 10:45 p.m. at 2100 South and 400 East intersection, near Kearns-Saint Ann School. Authorities said the driver of a light-colored sedan ran a stop sign on 400 East before colliding with the motorcyclist traveling on 2100 South.
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4 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Pat Reavy |Mariah Maynes |Bryanna Willis |Josuee Sanchez
TAYLORSVILLE — A Taylorsville woman is facing more than 100 felony charges accusing her of stealing nearly $100,000 from the rental management company she worked for, mainly by taking rent checks from tenants and depositing them into her own account or cashing them for herself. Malisha Alei Fasavalu, 34, was charged Monday in 3rd District Court with theft by deception and communications fraud, second-degree felonies; and 102 counts of possession of a forgery device, a third-degree felony.
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4 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Plans for a bike path connecting the 300 West bikeway to Pioneer Park have hit a snag. The project has been in the works since February, with construction slated to start this month. But last week, the city updated the project page and announced that the Utah Department of Transportation requested the removal of the block between 300 South and 400 South from the plans. No reason has been given for the sudden change.
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6 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
Federal officials are set to start reviewing the social media accounts of visa applicants who plan to attend, work at or visit Harvard University for any signs of antisemitism, marking the latest development in a clash between the Trump administration and the Ivy League school. A cable sent Friday signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and obtained by The Associated Press accused the university of failing to keep violence and antisemitism off campus.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Daniel Woodruff |Brynn Carnesecca |Daniella Rivera |Bryanna Willis
LEHI – Utahns are reacting to a U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for the Trump administration to take away protections for migrants who came to the country under humanitarian parole. The Supreme Court on Friday overruled a lower court that kept in place legal protections for humanitarian parolees from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The Trump administration wants to shut down that program, which allows people from those countries to come to the United States temporarily.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Brynn Carnesecca |Daniella Rivera |Bryanna Willis |Ivy Farguheson
MURRAY — Shoes are a necessity for children to go to school. They provide protection, give a sense of security and help students to fit in. Still, many students have to wear shoes that are ill-fitting, no longer functional or may not be able to afford shoes at all. Intermountain Medical Center in Murray partnered with the Murray School District and Murray Education Foundation to provide shoes for the students in need.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Bryanna Willis
SALT LAKE CITY — Immigration attorneys in Utah are saying their clients are feeling uncertain after the Supreme Court cleared the way for humanitarian parole protections to end for immigrants from four countries. On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that humanitarian parole protections can be removed for over 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Immigration attorney Sergio Garcia said he’s had calls all month from clients who have been worried about their status.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Ivy Farguheson |Verl Johansen |Bryanna Willis
PAYSON — Troopers have identified the two drivers who were killed in a wrong-way crash on I-15 in Payson on Tuesday afternoon. A blue Kia SUV was northbound about 2 miles south of the freeway’s junction with state Route 164 when it “cut across the northbound lanes, came through the median cable barrier,” and hit a green Jeep Gladiator head-on in the southbound lanes, UHP Cpl. Jared Heywood said. The drivers of both vehicles died on impact, a statement from UHP says.
