Indigenous Relatives Task News Today

Colorado's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Task Force is collecting in-custody death data to figure out how many people die in custody and who they are.

Native Americans make up only 1.5% of Utahs population, but they account for over 5% of the states murder victims.

Utah lawmakers are looking at new recommendations to help some of the state's communities that feel forgotten.

A Utah taskforce has a lot of work ahead as it gets ready to release a new report investigating solutions to help solve an epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous Utahns.

A report recommends some significant policy changes to help investigate and solve cases involving murdered and missing Indigenous people in Utah.

The Utah Legislature passed a bill that hopes to address the state’s high number of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

HB25 extends the Utah Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Task Force another year and renames it to the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives Task Force.

A bill under consideration by the Utah Legislature would expand a task force on missing and murdered Indigenous people.

The Native American Legislative Liaison Committee votes to recommend the extension of task force until November 2024.

Bark beetles are tiny insects that burrow into the bark of pine trees to lay their eggs, often killing the tree in the process. One way to mitigate beetle outbreaks is through prescribed burns. But as KSJD’s Lucas Brady Woods reports for Rocky Mountain Community Radio, drought conditions fueling their spread aren’t so easy to address.