Posts – KCPW

In 1862, pioneer Salt Lake City was up in arms over the revelation that the grave digger at the city cemetery had been digging up corpses to rob them of their clothes and jewelry. But how much of the story of Jean Baptiste is true and how much of it is legend? Featuring: Will Bagley, […]

Today on the show, we go back to a time before Alexa and Siri, before AOL, before dial up modems, before websites even. In 1969 the University of Utah was at the forefront of something altogether new; something that would change the world as we knew it. Producer Roger McDonough gives us the story. Guests: Mary […]

Rock climbing, ice climbing and mountaineering have never been more popular than they are now. But as more people are heading to crags, more people are leaving with bruises, broken bones or sometimes not leaving at all. As more and more people are drawn to these extreme sports, will the industry and technology be able […]

Producers Roger McDonough and Tim Pierce share clips from their favorite episodes of “In the Hive” over the past year. Join them as they look back into a year of engaging, thoughtful stories that tie Utah together. This episode of “In the Hive” was created as a part of KCPW’s Fall Pledge Drive. Please consider keeping […]

Rod Decker worked for more than 40 years as a journalist in Utah, primarily covering government and politics. His new book Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room looks at the history of the religious and political divides that have come to define Utah. For today’s episode, in addition to examining that history, Decker also […]

A historic drought has been ravaging the American Southwest for the past 19 years. For the first time ever, states intwined in the Colorado River system need to cut back their use of the river’s water. Finding a solution to water management has never been more dire. Will state and federal plans be enough to […]

Today on In the Hive, we take a deep dive into the blue bin. Generally, your curbside recycling gets hauled away by a private company to a sorting plant where the valuable materials are separated out and later sold to national or international processors. But trying to figure out just how much of what goes […]

This week on In the Hive, after a chance encounter with an unfamiliar word, we delve into the world of a plant native to Southeast Asia that has both opioid-like and stimulant properties: Kratom. How is it used? What do we know about the risks involved in taking Kratom? And why is there a state […]

Across much of the Wasatch Front, there’s a system of urban trails – often paved, sometimes not, that weave through neighborhoods and industrial parks and run along riverbanks and through undeveloped terrain. Today on In the Hive we explore our region’s urban trails and hear about some of the theory behind why they were originally […]

Utah’s plan for rolling out medical marijuana is in flux. Last week, two Utah county attorneys advised the health departments in their counties not to distribute medical cannabis. They said that by participating in the state’s distribution scheme, those health departments would be in violation of federal law, and could be at risk of losing federal […]