KUER-FM (Salt Lake City, UT)

KUER-FM is a public radio station affiliated with the University of Utah, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It broadcasts on 90.1 MHz FM and is a proud member of National Public Radio (NPR), also featuring programs from Public Radio International and American Public Media. One of its standout offerings is RadioWest, a local talk show hosted by Doug Fabrizio, which has received multiple awards. KUER features a variety of NPR programs, including favorites like All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, and Morning Edition, as well as local news segments and evening jazz music. Many of its popular syndicated shows, such as Car Talk reruns, Whad'Ya Know, Mountain Stage, This American Life, On The Media, Le Show, and A Prairie Home Companion, air on the weekends. The station’s studios are situated in the Eccles Broadcast Center at the University of Utah, while its transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak, having moved from Mount Vision in the Oquirrh Mountains in 2011.

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Utah wants more career-focused education. This Davis County school is the blueprint

4 days ago | kuer.org | Martha Harris

The inside of the Davis School District’s Catalyst Center doesn’t look like your typical high school. You won’t find many orderly rows of desks. Instead, there are flight simulators, a video production studio, a compounding pharmacy lab and a whole host of other professional equipment across various fields. Outside, students are cutting wood to build a tiny home. Another group is test-flying drones. Students from the district’s 10 high schools apply to come here for specific hands-on experiences.
Trump’s executive order on transgender sports kept a Utah teen from playing

5 days ago | kuer.org | Martha Harris

A transgender teen in Utah had the go-ahead from the state’s eligibility commission to participate in girls’ high school athletics. However, she was kept from competition by the Utah High School Activities Association, which cited President Donald Trump’s February executive order that sought to prohibit transgender girls from sports. The revelation came during a June 2 court hearing in a lawsuit over Utah’s 2022 law that bans transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports.
Great Salt Lake is again on the decline, and summer likely won’t help it

1 week ago | kuer.org | Saige Miller

Great Salt Lake will likely have a tough summer. The saline lake relies on mountain snow melt to fill it with water, and this winter wasn’t as good as the past two seasons. Enough snow fell in 2023 and 2024 to lift the state out of drought, fill reservoirs to above capacity and boost the withering Great Salt Lake. It’s a different story this year. As of May 1, the amount of runoff that made its way to the Great Salt Lake basin is 72% of normal, compared with 108% at this time in 2024.
What being in between El Niño and La Niña means for Utah’s summer weather

1 week ago | kuer.org | David Condos

Utah’s weather is hard to predict right now. La Niña has ended. But its counterpart, El Niño, hasn’t begun, either. These are the warm and cool phases of a cycle known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, when temperatures in part of the Pacific Ocean rise and fall. Each is associated with specific weather impacts like a drier winter or a wetter monsoon season.
Utah’s got growing pains. A new state council is supposed to help

1 week ago | kuer.org | Saige Miller

As more people move to the Beehive state, Utah’s resources are being stretched. Gov. Spencer Cox hopes a new executive order will address some of those growing pains. Cox announced the creation of the Blueprint for Utah’s Infrastructure, Land, and Development Coordinating Council on May 28. BUILD will bring together 12 state agencies and give 10 other entities like universities and municipalities the opportunity to add a representative if they choose to participate.
Eager to rebuild trust, Utah Tech’s new president says this is his ‘forever home’

1 week ago | kuer.org | Martha Harris

Utah Tech University President Shane Smeed started his new role at the beginning of May. He takes over at a time when many faculty are distrustful of the school’s administration. Smeed plans to address their frustration by making open communication a priority, he told KUER. A few weeks into his tenure, he feels optimistic about moving forward in a productive way. “My commitment to them [faculty] is to meet regularly and often, to be transparent, to be communicative,” Smeed said.
5 years after George Floyd protests, Salt Lake police reform faces headwinds

1 week ago | kuer.org | Sean Higgins

In the five years since the death of George Floyd, efforts to reform Salt Lake City’s approach to policing have effected some change. But with state politicians cracking down on DEI initiatives and city control, the future of policing in Utah’s capital is now facing different pressures. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered Floyd, a Black man, on May 35, 2020 after kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes.
With Zion’s peak season here, search and rescue teams could be stretched thin

1 week ago | kuer.org | David Condos

When someone breaks an ankle in The Narrows or gets heat exhaustion on Angel’s Landing, one of Zion National Park’s search and rescue teams comes to their aid. But the increasingly large crowds flocking to the southwest Utah park threaten to strain the workforce charged with keeping its visitors safe. The park had 193 search and rescue incidents in 2024, spokesperson Matthew Fink said, mostly concentrated between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
How the Washoe Tribe built a business to sustain a firewood bank for their elders

1 week ago | kuer.org | Kaleb M. Roedel

Editor's note: This story was produced for Our Living Lands, a collaboration of the Mountain West News Bureau, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, and Native Public Media focusing on the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities across the country. It's a sun-splashed morning at the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California's wood yard, a patch of land about the size of a football field, tucked in a valley about 20 miles east of Lake Tahoe's south shore.
SLCC aims for simplicity and workforce training to meet Utah’s higher ed mandate

2 weeks ago | kuer.org | Martha Harris

Salt Lake Community College will bolster workforce training programs as part of its plan to comply with state-mandated budget restructuring. It will also cut 48 academic programs and slash administrative costs. The state’s largest two-year college is also taking the extra step of cutting $581,620 more than it had to. School leaders say this reflects their focus on doing what’s best for students rather than just compliance.