To Saul Mejia and Jennifer Espinoza, coffee is a cultural staple. Here’s how they’re sharing it with northern Utah.
UPR News & Programs
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By tomorrow, we'll be in a transition period between two systems, bringing clear skies and slightly warmer temperatures across the board. Expect to warm up a couple degrees just about everywhere.
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By tomorrow, there will be some lingering sprinkles up north through the morning, before we're mostly on the other side of this disturbance.
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Other states in the Mountain West are seeing an even bigger boom of wind and solar, made possible because of how cheap these renewable sources have become over the last decade.
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The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is searching for homes for 15 desert tortoises who can't be released back into the wild. And, Alan Osmond of the musical group The Osmonds died this week.
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Campbell Helton, a student at Utah State University, will perform an original composition that explores how she overcame challenges in her first year of college.
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Earth Day, Earth Week, and my preferred, Earth Year. Let’s pretend to join the Artemus II crew for a wild 300,000 mile journey to the dark side of the moon for an Earth rise.
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When the white nationalist group VDARE used dark money to purchase a historic castle overlooking Berkeley Springs in West Virginia, America’s “cold civil war” spilled into the scenic tourist town.
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A gentle, introspective jazz set of lyrical ballads and modern moods — featuring Stacey Kent’s elegance, Ron Burris’ warmth, and evocative originals from Russ Spiegel and Aubrey Johnson.
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For over a century, Utah has had a strict gambling ban in place. However, prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket are frequently used as loopholes.
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Evelyn Funda continues the ongoing series on spices with Phebe Jensen, USU Professor Emeritus in English and notable Shakespearean scholar. They explore Shakespeare as a botanist and references in his works of the natural world.
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When wildland firefighters are on prescribed fires, they're breathing the same smoke and facing many of the same hazards found on wildfires — but currently, they don't get the same hazard pay.
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A new study looked at how basic living expenses in the U.S. have changed since 2019, especially through the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflationary surge of 2022-23.
A show designed to showcase local Utah musical artists and highlight public radio.
Stream a variety of music and talk programs in Spanish from Radio Bilingüe.
Transmite una variedad de música y programas de charla de Radio Bilingüe.
Transmite una variedad de música y programas de charla de Radio Bilingüe.
NPR News
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After a year without data, the State Department released figures on PEPFAR, the program launched by George W. Bush and credited with saving millions of lives. How did Trump's aid cuts affect it?
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The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with potentially worrisome consequences.
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The latest campaign finance reports show Democratic enthusiasm in key House and Senate races, but national Republican groups have far more in the bank to potentially spend down the road.
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Americans who moved to Vietnam and Thailand say their lives are now lower-stress and lower-cost. But glamorous videos on TikTok don't tell the whole story.
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After a historic partial shutdown of Homeland Security, congressional Republicans are looking to a budgetary tool that could enable them to fund immigration enforcement agencies without Democratic support.
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The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.
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President Trump's Department of Justice sent a plane this week to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a custody fight involving the child's gender identity.
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The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant, a silver recovery business. An emergency management official says workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility when the leak occurred, causing a chemical gas reaction.
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Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said John Phelan, the Navy's top civilian official, was "departing the administration, effective immediately." Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary of the Navy.
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Tesla's profits were up from this time last year. But the company warned investors to prepare for expensive investments in next-generation technology like humanoid robots and AI.