LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Pac-12 Conference has moved Utah’s game at UCLA to Saturday. It was originally scheduled for Friday, but Utah has had a rise in positive COVID-19 cases. The game will now begin at 8:30 p.m. MST. The Utes’ opener against Arizona scheduled for this past weekend […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah voters have approved a major structural change to how schools are funded. The proposal known as Amendment G had earned 54% of the vote after additional results were posted Friday afternoon. It changes a constitutional requirement that income taxes be used to fund education. […]
Utah State and football coach Gary Andersen are parting ways after a 0-3 start to the season for the Aggies. Andersen was in Year 2 of his second stint as Utah State coach. He went 26-24 at Utah State from 2009-12, leaving after an 11-2 season to take over at […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Zach Wilson threw for 359 yards and two touchdowns and Tyler Allgeier rushed for 123 yards and a pair of scores as No. 9 BYU routed No. 21 Boise State 51-17. BYU (8-0), which beat Boise State on the road for the first time in six […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s largest teachers union has called for the governor to move all public secondary schools in high coronavirus transmission areas to remote learning. On Friday, the Utah Education Association also called for Republican Gov. Gary Herbert to suspend all extracurricular activities that can’t comply with […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The state Board of Education says enrollment in Utah public schools has declined for the first time since 2000. The agency counted 665,306 public school students in the state, down 0.23% from 2019. Kindergarten enrollment fell statewide by almost 1,457 students, an almost 4% decline. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s newly reelected attorney general says he is taking personal leave time to help support President Donald Trump’s legal challenges to election procedures. Trump has claimed without evidence that the vote is unfair and rigged. Republican Attorney General Sean Reyes says he’ll be helping support […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The hard-fought race for a congressional swing district in Utah remained too early to call on Thursday, with a about 2,300 votes separating the candidates and many left to count. Former NFL player Burgess Owens, a Black conservative supporter of President Donald Trump, lead in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two men charged with helping to flip and damage a police car at a Utah demonstration that devolved into a riot have admitted to criminal charges. The Deseret News reports 21-year-old Connor Matthew Peebles and 19-year-old Ian Eric Nightingale pleaded guilty to criminal mischief. The […]
The NBA’s player representatives have voted to support the notion of starting this coming season on Dec. 22, the date that the league has been targeting in its talks about how and when to get teams back on the floor for a planned 72-game season. The player vote is just […]
