SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican lawmakers in several more states want to loosen gun restrictions by allowing people to carry concealed firearms without having to get a permit, continuing a trend that gun control advocates call dangerous. Fifteen states already allow concealed carry without a permit, and lawmakers in […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as officials move to reverse the energy and environmental policies of the Trump administration. The suspension announced Thursday follows campaign pledges by President Joe Biden […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is ordering vaccine shots set aside as second doses be re-distributed as first doses to new people if the original patient doesn’t come back for their follow-up appointment a few weeks later. He said Thursday during his monthly news conference on […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — For the first time since the city of St. George was founded in 1861, a woman will serve as mayor. The Spectrum newspaper reports city councilwoman Michele Randall was appointed mayor of St. George in a four-to-one vote Tuesday afternoon. She will serve the 11 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City students are expected to resume in-person learning for at least two days per week amid arguments by legislative leaders and attorneys representing parents. But the Deseret News reports that if that plan changes, the Salt Lake City School District could lose funding […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — President Joe Biden says he plans to review the Trump administration’s downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest. One is on lands considered sacred to Native Americans who joined environmental groups in suing when the boundaries were redrawn in 2017. The new […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Legislature’s 2021 session opened Tuesday with words of hope and heightened security measures against a backdrop of possibly violent protests and the coronavirus pandemic. The Capitol usually buzzes with activity as lobbyists, advocates and others walk the halls. But it was largely empty […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged its members to get a COVID-19 vaccine when it’s their turn, while announcing Tuesday that eight top leaders and most of their wives received their first doses. Ninety-six-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson and the others […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The Ogden branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Utah organized a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally against racial injustice Monday. Roughly 25 cars congregated with social distance in the Utah city to say that the problems that resulted in […]
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Social worker salaries in Utah are so low that employees have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet and some are even on welfare. Fox-13 news reporters that Republican Governor Spencer Cox’s administration highlighted the issue in a scathing memo put out by his transition […]
