(Salt Lake City, UT) — More than 91-thousand people moved into Utah last year, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. The biggest number of new move-ins came from California. More than 18-thousand-600 Californians became Utahns last year. That’s more than second-place Washington and third-place Idaho combined. […]
(St. George, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox says he agrees with Washington County Water Conservancy District leaders that plans for a Lake Powell pipeline should be put on hold while the state focuses on conservation and water re-use methods. Cox made the comment in response to a question during yesterday’s […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Food Bank is beginning to create an infrastructure to identify, track and distribute culturally responsive foods across the state. They will pilot the program in Salt Lake County. The food bank will be updating its software, tracking systems and warehouse space, and increasing […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah State Board of Education is considering enacting a policy that would force public schools to share student information with charter schools. Public schools would share information including addresses and phone numbers to make it easier for charter schools to advertise directly to families. […]
(Orem, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is calling a Utah Highway Patrol trooper a hero for saving a colleague’s life. The incident happened Sunday after a driver going the wrong direction on I-15 near Orem slammed head-on into Trooper Carlos Rios-Redd. The wrong-way driver was killed and Rios-Redd’s vehicle caught […]
(St. George, UT) — The average price for a gallon of gas is now below three-dollars in Utah. Triple-A reports prices for unleaded have gone down to two-98 across the Beehive State, more than half-a-dollar less than what drivers were paying for at this time last month. And, while St. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s outdoor economy continues to show growth. The Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation released the economic impact report this month for the year 2022, showing more than eight-billion dollars in economic output. That’s a more than 32-percent increase from the year before and accounts for […]
(Gunnison, UT) — Inmates at the Central Utah Correctional Facility’s sewing shop are working together to help people in need. They’re designing and sewing backpacks, diaper bags, and other items so they can be donated to local charities. In just this year alone, they sewed and donated a total of […]
(West Haven, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox on Tuesday unveiled the biggest state budget proposal in Utah’s history. The spending plan totals 29-and-a-half billion dollars. Cox wants the state to spend some of that money on making child care more accessible and expanding affordable housing, including 35-thousand starter homes. The […]
(Milford, UT) — Smithfield Foods is ending its contracts with more than two-dozen Utah hog farms and laying off dozens of workers in the state. The national food company announced on Tuesday it’s ending contracts with 26 hog farms in Utah. That will mean the end of as many as […]
