KSL NewsRadio's Eric Cabrera reports on a lawsuit from a Utah man and US citizen who says ICE roughed him up at a bus stop because they could not communicate with him as a deaf man.
Heather Peterson has proved an indispensable member of the KSL NewsRadio team. In this sampling of her work, you hear coverage of redrawn congressional district maps, protests over the removal of a local high school principal, an animal hoarding situation in Ogden, an agreement for Utah County officials to share information with ICE, and the release of a Utah violinist from ICE custody.
Students protested vocally when they learned their beloved principal was out at West High School in January 2025.
A discussion around Utah County entering an agreement with ICE was met with consternation and criticism in Provo.
KSL provided in-depth coverage when a medical expert for the state of Utah indicated Ralph Menzies was incompetent to be put to death.
Utah's reservoirs had taken a nose dive by mid-July 2025, with some not even half-full at that point. KSL NewsRadio's Adam Small reports.
As soon as state lawmakers decided to try to gather signatures to repeal the state's rules on drawing congressional district maps, reports started to surface about wrongdoing on the part of the signature gatherers. KSL NewsRadio's Heather Peterson broke down the complicated issue with sound from multiple points of views to allow listeners to decide for themselves.
In 2025, KSL NewsRadio’s team of reporters, producers, anchors and hosts covered a wide range of stories, from a ramp-up in immigration enforcement and the subsequent increase in protests, to the shootings that killed two local police officers and the shooting that killed political influencer Charlie Kirk, to the death of the pope and the death of a prophet for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on a Utah campus rocked the state and its residents, who thought this was a place where political violence did not happen. KSL dispatched reporters to Utah Valley University to cover the breaking events and aftermath as the manhunt for the shooter was just beginning.
KSL NewsRadio's team sprang into action on September 10, 2025, as word broke about a shooting at a local college campus -- Utah Valley University, where political influencer Charlie Kirk was expected to speak. Our hosts and reporters spoke with witnesses and gathered details both to cover the events but also to help students and faculty evacuate campus in the chaos and traffic jam that followed.