(Washington, DC) — Utah’s congressional delegation is renewing a request to open a new passport office in Salt Lake City. The state’s congressmen and senators sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State yesterday outlining problems with passport processing in Utah. They say their offices have been swamped by […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — It looks like the Beehive State is a great place to work from home. A new WalletHub report looked at the best states for remote workers based on 12 key metrics, including the cost of internet and electricity and the number of internet crimes per […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox is promoting innovation through a series of bills signed into law yesterday. The governor was part of the grand opening of the Utah Policy Innovation Lab yesterday in downtown Salt Lake City. The new lab is designed as a place where educators, policy […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A Utah judge is refusing to dismiss claims that several leading pharmacy chains helped make opioids a public health crisis by not doing enough to control access to those drugs. The Third District Court judge declined a request yesterday by Rite-Aid and Kroger to dismiss […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The University of Utah is investigating the cause of a small explosion in a lab on campus. The explosion happened Saturday in the Fletcher Building, which houses the university’s Physics and Astronomy departments. The explosion was contained inside a fume hood, a ventilated enclosure often […]
(Cedar City, UT) — Things are back to normal at Southern Utah University following a report of shots fired over the weekend. Police say they got a call about a shooting at the Gerald R. Sherratt Library Saturday night. Officers arrived on scene and evacuated the library while also searching […]
(Cedar City, UT) — A trio of students is now scheduled to speak at Southern Utah University’s commencement ceremony later this month. The Cedar City school says the three students will replace Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apostle Jeffrey Holland because of ill health. Holland was also relieved […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Many Utahns support the design of the new state flag, but many don’t know whether they like it or not. A new Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows that 48-percent of those asked like the new flag. Another 35-percent don’t want the new design, […]
(St. George, UT) — A St. George veteran who trained as a tank destroyer during World War Two celebrated his 100th birthday this week. Bud Duane Dunn was born in the tiny town of Joseph, south of Richfield, and was in the University of Utah’s first graduating class of pharmacy. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is asking Utahns to donate a little bit of money to help alleviate homelessness. It’s estimated that about 35-hundred people experience homelessness every night and 30-percent are families with children. At a news conference yesterday, Cox asked every Utahn who’s filing a […]
