(Salt Lake City, UT) – The Utah Republican Party is ending its federal court case to stop a law affecting how candidates qualify for the ballot. Party leaders announced Saturday that they were dropping their federal appeal of Senate Bill 54. The bill allows candidates to qualify for a state primary […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The voicemail box for Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch was full, so a Utah woman tried using a pizza to ask for a “no” vote on one of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees. The ham-and-pineapple pizza that Julia Silge ordered for Hatch’s Salt Lake City office to […]
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 […]
(St. George, UT) – A St. George teen’s video showed up on TV during Super Bowl 51. Sterling Jones entered his public service announcement video about highway safety into a contest which he won. His PSA video won a spot which aired during yesterday’s Super Bowl 51. Jones says he wanted […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s snowpack is deeper than normal following heavy snowfall during January, but a National Weather Service hydrologist says it’s too early to say the state is in great shape. A February survey reports that snowpack across the state averages 167 percent of normal. Brian McInerney […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Marchers in downtown Salt Lake City are showing support for refugees. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that hundreds were participating in the midday Saturday march from the federal building to the Utah State Capitol, while other media outlets and Salt Lake City Jackie Biskupski said […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As Utah lawmakers grind through a record number of bills this year, they’re being steered by a Senate president known for his calm and analytical accountant’s temperament and a House speaker who used to be a boxer and is now scrapping it up on issues […]
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’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. […]
