(Salt Lake City, UT) – A new law in Utah went into effect yesterday, clearing old and minor criminal records for close to half-a-million people. The Clean Slate Law was passed unanimously by the Utah Legislature three years ago. State officials say the goal is to remove unnecessary barriers for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Senate has passed a $193 million tax cut, sending it to the desk of Gov. Spencer Cox, who is expected to sign it into law. The tax cut parallels actions advancing in other legislatures in a year where states are flush with cash […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has dismissed a civil-rights investigation into how LGBTQ students are disciplined at Brigham Young University. The Utah college said in a news release Thursday that the Department of Education concluded the private religious school is exempt from parts of Title […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Car crashes and traffic deaths decreased in Utah after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation. A study published Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration suggests Utah’s roads became safer after the state lowered the drunken driving threshold to […]
(Moab, UT) — The Bureau of Land Management is admitting that some damage has been done to an area containing historic dinosaur tracks near Moab. The bureau said yesterday that a paleontologist has determined that a construction project at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite did damage some dinosaur footprints. Construction […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah House passes a 200-million-dollar tax cut package. The plan in SB59 slashes income and social security taxes for Utahns, saving them about one-hundred dollars a year on average. A plan from a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans to remove the state sales […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Lawmakers in the Utah House will consider a bill that would expand ranked-choice voting in elections this afternoon. HB178 from Republican Representative Mike Winder would require ranked-choice voting to be used in any multi-candidate race, whether they are primaries or general elections. The proposal also […]
(Cedar City, UT) — The inmate who was found dead Sunday in the Garfield County Jail has been identified as 60-year-old Albert Stout. The Iron-Garfield-Beaver Critical Incident Task Force is handling the investigation and they say it is suspected Stout took his own live. He had been in jail since […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A bill that would create more oversight of proposed dredging at Utah Lake is on its way to a vote in the Utah House. The House Natural Resources Committee approved House Bill 240 yesterday. The bill would modify the Utah Lake Restoration Act of 2018, […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Governor Spencer Cox spent some time in a middle school classroom yesterday. Cox says he is taught three periods of eighth grade history, serving as a substitute teacher. This comes after the governor eased restrictions for substitute teachers statewide due to an ongoing staff shortage. […]
