SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Alcohol commissioners are weighing Utah’s strict liquor laws with developing a mobile app directing tourists to state-run liquor stores. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control would have to ensure its app wouldn’t illegally promote liquor consumption in a state […]
Students at Gunnison Elementary School got an unexpected one day vacation on Monday after a problem with a main water line over the weekend. According to South Sanpete School District Superintendent Kent Larsen, a joint on a pipe under a thrust block failed, causing an elbow to rupture. Repairs were […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are expected to consider a plan that would expand capital punishment in the state so that criminals convicted of sex trafficking that leads to death could be executed. Proposal sponsor Republican Rep. Paul Ray said Friday he wants to hold the leaders of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Health Department said Friday that the state will expand Medicaid to cover more low-income parents, covering only a small number of the state’s poorest people that officials have considered covering in the program over the past few years under President Barack Obama’s health law. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – State lawmakers are filing a record number of bills this year. The president of the state Senate announced yesterday that 1272 were filed by lawmakers this year. That breaks the record set last year by 15. Lawmakers defend the number of bills they’re filing by saying […]
(Undated) – Utah is among the top states in the nation for economic growth. The latest federal numbers show the state’s gross domestic product annual growth comes in second in the country for the third quarter of last year. South Dakota was tops with Nevada in third after Utah.Â
PROVO, Utah (AP) — The attorney for an Orem man on trial for a second time on accusations he killed wife says there’s no conclusive evidence to show her client is guilty. The Daily Herald reports that attorney Ann Taliaferro’s comments came during opening arguments Thursday in Provo in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A bipartisan group of Utah lawmakers are pushing a series of environmental proposals to fix the state’s bad air quality which this week has been so bad that students haven’t been able to go outside for all their recesses. The group of more than a […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission and a tribal delegate are advocating for the Navajo Nation to become an official member of the United Nations. Tribal officials say the delegation visited New York City this week. Navajo Council Delegate Nathaniel Brown said non-governmental organizations and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Lawyers for former Utah Attorney General John Swallow are seeking to have their client’s corruption trial delayed or charges against him dismissed because they need more time to review testimony from a prosecution witness. The request by Attorney Scott Williams on Thursday comes days before […]
