Judy Fahys
Judy Fahys is KUER's reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau, a journalism collaborative that unites six stations across the Mountain West, including stations in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Montana to better serve the people of the region. The project focuses its reporting on topic areas including issues of land and water, growth, politics, and Western culture and heritage.
Fahys has reported in Utah for two decades, covering politics, government and business before taking on environmental issues. She loves covering Utah, where petroleum-pipeline spills, the nation’s radioactive legacy and other types of pollution provide endless fodder for stories. Previously, she worked for the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah, and reported on the nation’s capital for States News Service and the Scripps League newspaper chain. She is a longtime member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors. She also spent an academic year as a research fellow in the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In her spare time, she enjoys being out in the environment, especially hiking, gardening and watercolor painting.
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Conservationists from around the country are opposing congressional legislation to allow a four-lane highway through a desert tortoise preserve in fast... -
Rowdy Muir started fighting fires on the front lines when he was 27. -
You’ve probably heard about the GDP or those “best places to live” rankings. The Family Prosperity Index also factors in family life as a measure of... -
The governors of neighboring Western states shared a stage Tuesday to talk about energy . Utah Republican Gary Herbert and Colorado Democrat John... -
The 100 Deadliest Days for car and truck crashes starts Memorial Day and ends on Labor Day. It’s when fatalities spike the tally, leading to more than 1... -
A record number of Native Americans are running for political office this year nationally and in the Mountain West. -
The country's first free-range parenting law goes into effect in Utah May 8. But people in other states are already warming to the idea. -
The Trump administration’s plans to cut red tape on environmental projects is getting predictably mixed reviews. -
National parks tourism pumped nearly $36 billion into the U.S. economy last year, and communities just outside the parks benefited the most. That’s... -
The nasty strain of E. coli that’s sickening people across the U.S. has turned up in Idaho and Montana, and health officials remain on alert.
