(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Governor Spencer Cox will join fourteen governors from Georgia to Montana who are traveling to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass this weekend. The trip announced yesterday is to show solidarity for state-based immigration policies underway at the Texas-Mexico border. On Sunday, Cox will tour […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A couple of Utah Lawmakers are asking to increase Utah’s first private school voucher program by over 100-million dollars for the 20-25 school year. The “Utah Fits All Scholarship” voucher program is currently in its first year and registration begins at the end of the […]
A substitute teacher in Gunnison has been arrested after police say she engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior with a 17-year-old boy whom she originally met while in his classroom. According to police, Ashlyn Amy Harvey, age 34, was a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School in Dec. 2022. According […]
Thanks to a statewide Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) plan, a network of bike paths across Sanpete County is one step closer to becoming a reality. The UDOT 2023-2050 Unified Transportation Plan focuses most of its entries for Sanpete County on improving the conditions for cyclists. One of the main […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah legislature is looking at various ways to improve water maintenance and conservation. Currently over ten bills are split between the house and the senate. Focus has been on looking at requiring metering at secondary water connection sites, line ditches, and possibly changing infrastructure […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A newly proposed state bill would hold teachers liable if they keep banned books available to their students. If found guilty, teachers would be charged with a misdemeanor if they keep materials specifically deemed “objectively sensitive” in their classrooms. The GOP backed bill would result […]
One of the largest drug busts in Sanpete County in recent history has taken drugs with a street value of $280K off the street. Eight agencies, including local law enforcement, joined together to carry out the sting operation in Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday, January 24. Three individuals were arrested and […]
(Cedar City, UT) — A new group has come forward against Utah’s efforts to defederalize its national monuments. More than 25 law professors specializing in natural recourses and public land have sent a brief offering arguments to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver calling it to dismiss Utah’s […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A newly proposed state bill may result in your energy costs going up. HB-1-9-1 would require Rocky Mountain Power to replace coal plants with a resource that produces at least the same amount of power and have “similar attributes” to coal power. The Salt Lake […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed two controversial bills into law yesterday. The first was House Bill 257, also known as the “transgender bathroom bill”, which requires transgender people to use a public bathroom or changing room that coincides with their sex assigned at birth. The […]
