Winter is coming, and that means the return of the heating bill. The US Energy Information Administration said in a new report Wednesday, that households will spend 54% more for propane, 43% more for home heating oil, 30% more for natural gas and 6% more for electric heating. According to Energy Information Administration Acting Administrator Steve Nalley... the growth in energy demand is outpacing growth in supply... These dynamics are raising energy prices around the world. Are you turning your heater on yet or throwing on more blankets? We give tips and tricks to help lower your heating bill and ease into a warmer winter.

Dave and Debbie talk about the gloomy weather hitting the state and want to find out when the sun is coming back to Utah. How does this effect our severe drought status? Can we ever actually get out of the drought? What does drought even mean? Grant Weyman answers all these questions and more.

William Shatner, Captain Kirk Himself, just got launched into space. He was up there for 10 minutes ans 17 seconds, and when he came back to Earth, he was a changed man. We take the highlights of his very emotional return back to planet earth.

Earlier this morning in Third District Court the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against Buk Buk, for the senseless murder of Aaron Lowe. Paul Nelson joins us to break the charges apart.

Yesterday we took a deep dive on the discussion of Full day kindergarten -- Dave is not a fan of the idea. He found 3 kindergarten teachers who were very against the idea. Are we expecting too much from our 5 year olds? Is this just too much school for our kids to take?

For the first time, total government revenues topped $4 trillion. Individual income taxes were up 27.5 percent, with 80 percent coming from the top 10 percent of earners. Boyd Matheson from Inside Sources, helps to break this down for us.

Strangulation. The evil form of domestic violence we don't talk about. It says I don't want to hurt you. I want to steal the one thing you need to live -- your oxygen.  Training institute on strangulation prevention. a 2008 study from the Journal of Emergency Medicine is cited. The study found that 43 percent of women who were murdered in domestic assaults, strangled the year before. Liz Sollis/Utah Domestic Violence Council joins us to walk us through the warning signs if you think a loved one is getting hurt.

School lunch is switching up their menus, not their choice. The director of nutrition in the Salt Lake School district had to go pick up 1300 cartons of plain white 1% milk and hand deliver them to his schools. Kathleen Harris, Child Nutrition Programs, Utah State Board of Education, joins us for the first portion of this topic to talk us through supply and demand. Due to the pandemic the US Department of Agriculture approved public schools to feed breakfast or lunch to any child between the ages of 1-18 for free. The program was extended at the start of the 2020-21 school year.. to ensure children didn't go hungry during the pandemic. Should we continue this practice? Do your children eat a brown bag lunch or do they have a hot meal? We take your phone calls.

The cororner in WY says Gabby Petito was strangled to death. They were arguing during their road trip. Timeline the arguments and get the domestic violence council on the line to tell us how to know an argument will escalate to more than another verbal argument.

Inflation has hit America hard The New York Post estimates it to be an extra $175 a month. The government says that inflation is up 5.3%. The Post says that the chief economist at Moody's Analytics says that the rising cost of food, fuel, and housing costs Americans--making $70k-- an extra $175 a month.