Katie McKellar on Muck Rack

Katie McKellar

Verified
Salt Lake City
As seen in: Utah News Dispatch, MSN, Yahoo Life, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Associated Press, U.S. News and World Report, Flipboard, The Seattle Times, Yahoo Sports, Deseret News and
Reporter for @UTNewsDispatch. Formerly with @Deseret. Recipient of @UtahSPJ’s 2017 Quintus C. Wilson Ethics Award. Send tips to kmckellar@utahnewsdispatch.com
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Katie

Contact Katie, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Fun fact: In some cases, 17-year-olds can vote in Utah primaries Original

|
By Katie McKellar Verified
| Utah News Dispatch
by Katie McKellar, Utah News Dispatch June 22, 2026 Did you know that in Utah, some 17-year-olds can vote in Utah’s primary elections before they officially turn 18? It depends, however, on their birth dates. Under Utah law, 17-year-olds can vote in a regular primary election, a municipal primary election or a presidential primary election if they turn 18 “on or before the day of the general election that immediately follows” the primary.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (4) Issue with article?

ICE plans to offload Salt Lake City warehouse, report says Original

|
By Annie Knox Verified, Katie McKellar Verified
| Utah News Dispatch
by Annie Knox and Katie McKellar, Utah News Dispatch June 18, 2026 In more than two months since the federal government bought a $145 million Utah warehouse for use as a large-scale immigration detention center, the most activity that’s taken place at the site has happened during protests and in a back lot borrowed by a neighboring business for storage.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (8) Issue with article?

Utah Trust Lands board approves sale of 50,000 acres in Book Cliffs to state wildlife division Original

|
By Katie McKellar Verified
| Utah News Dispatch
The Utah Trust Lands Administration board voted 5-1 on Thursday to approve the sale of about 50,000 acres of popular hunting and fishing land known as the roadless Book Cliffs area in Grand County to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for nearly $30 million. One board member, real estate developer Dan Simons, voted against the sale without explaining his vote, but the others voted in favor. The vote came in a public meeting after the board spent about 40 minutes behind closed doors.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (4) Issue with article?
See all 5,116 licensed articles (5,658 Total)
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified