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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Sam Herrera |Josuee Sanchez |Samantha Herrera
SALT LAKE CITY — The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome in Farmington celebrated 25 years of service on April 15. Executive Director Danielle Vazquez told Utah’s Noon News that the center provides families and caregivers with evidence-based education to prevent shaken baby syndrome. What is shaken baby syndrome? According to the center, shaken baby syndrome is an injury resulting from child abuse.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Adam Small |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — A BYU graduate student has had his revoked without notice and told to go back to Japan before the end of April. He is among dozens of international students in Utah who were told their visas had been revoked last week. Suguru Onda has been living legally in the United States and said he has one year more before he completes his doctoral degree. Related: ICE detaining immigrants on probation during court-ordered check-insWhat is a Form I-20, or I-20 visa?
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Josuee Sanchez |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes
SALT LAKE CITY — Researchers at the University of Utah say they’ve learned that one of the most common health-care-acquired infections, Clostridioides difficile or C. diff, spreads three times more than was originally thought. Right now, hospitals and care centers report about 225,000 cases of C. diff each year. It’s a germ that can cause diarrhea and colitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC also reports that C. diff can be life-threatening.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Jessica Lowell |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Valley University is the latest to announce layoffs following new legislation changing state universities’ budgets. UVU said it laid off less than 2% of its full-time employees. The university said it experienced less damage because it proactively put in place a hiring freeze last fall.
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1 week ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Sam Herrera |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez |Samantha Herrera
SALT LAKE CITY — A four-car crash in Murray left one person dead on Tuesday. According to Lt. Jake Huggard with Murray police, the crash happened around 10:55 a.m. on Winchester Street. Murray police and firefighters responded to the scene and transported several people to the hospital. One person died shortly after arriving at the hospital, according to Murray police. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
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2 weeks ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Carter Williams |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — A state committee has agreed on a $1.8 billion “reinvestment zone” where major downtown changes will take place next to a soon-to-be remodeled Delta Center. Related: A Downtown Salt Lake revitalization could be beneficial. How could it come to life?
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY— Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute is a recipient of a year-long grant from Northrop Grumman. The money will go toward brine fly research. Great Salt Lake Institute’s project will explore brine fly responses to changing salinity levels. Georgie Corkery, the Great Salt Lake Institute Coordinator, said brine flies thrive in water between 12% and 15% salinity. In comparison, the ocean is only 3% salinity.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reopen a public comment opportunity related to the proposed listing of the monarch butterfly on the Endangered Species Act list. The new comment period will begin on March 19 and last for 60 days. A previous public comment period lasted until March 12, according to the service’s website. According to a press release from the Fish and Wildlife Service, listing the monarch butterfly was proposed on Dec. 12, 2024.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Amy Joi O'Donoghue |Josuee Sanchez |Bridger Beal-Cvetko |Amie Schaeffer
SALT LAKE CITY — The five-year anniversary of the earthquake that hit Magna, other parts of Salt Lake County and reverberated around much of the state is Tuesday. The 5.7 magnitude earthquake caused extensive damage to buildings in Magna and at a trailer park elsewhere in the county.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Bridger Beal-Cvetko |Josuee Sanchez |Amie Schaeffer |Shelby Lofton
PROVO — On long road trips to Disneyland with his six children, John Curtis occasionally had to invoke the dreaded threat to pull the car to the side of the road until the kids could stop fighting and work out their differences over who touched the other first. “I am done with you kids. I’m stopping the car. We’re not going to Disneyland until you work this out,” Curtis recalled telling them.
