SALT LAKE CITY — Realtors across the state participated in the annual Housing Forecast event, detailing trends within the housing market in Salt Lake County. The Salt Lake Board of Realtors (SLBR) hosted the event, where experts talked about mortgage rates, buyer demographics, inventory and housing-price appreciation.

SALT LAKE CITY – Don’t expect Utah real estate to do anything crazy this year. That’s what agents and brokers were told at the Salt Lake Board of Realtors’ annual housing forecast event in Salt Lake City. The business of buying and selling houses is expected to be more or less stagnant in 2026, said Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute Senior Fellow James Wood.

SALT LAKE CITY — A group of Utah leaders and prominent residents gathered on a deck near the eastern shores of the Great Salt Lake on a hot September afternoon last year to outline a vision they had for the Utah 2034 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

SALT LAKE CITY – Despite the Great Salt Lake’s dire straits, state researchers and leaders remain optimistic that Utah will become the first place in the world to reverse a saline lake’s decline — and do so in time for the 2034 Winter Olympics.

ST. GEORGE — In the hours after a report was released sharing how Utah's younger students are struggling to read, we spoke with people in the southern part of the state to find out what's being done to turn the dismal numbers around.

SALT LAKE CITY — On Monday, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute released a report detailing early literacy rates among Utah children, indicating that many of Utah’s children are not as proficient in reading as they should be.

SALT LAKE CITY — It’s no secret that Division I college athletics in Utah are a pretty big deal, driven by thousands of premier athletes across two dozen sports that generate tens of millions in ticket sales and hundreds of million dollars in revenue every year. But for the first time, an expansive study conducted by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute has captured the depth and breadth of big-time college sports’ impacts, and the benefits stretch far beyond the financial tallies.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah remains on pace to add 2 million more people over the next 40 years, but the state's rate of growth may continue to slide over the next few decades, according to a new projection of statewide population trends.

SALT LAKE CITY — Lots of changes are in store for Utah’s population by 2065. However, the predicted fast-and-furious pace of population growth may already be slowing. New projections from the University of Utah's Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute expect Utah to grow by roughly 2 million people in the next 40 years, giving the state a population of 5.6 million.

SALT LAKE CITY — The stark reality of veteran suicides in Utah is not just a statistic but a clarion call for change, as highlighted in a recent report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute geared toward addressing how veterans interact with available suicide prevention resources.