SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah elections data shows backers of Medicaid expansion there have gathered enough signatures to appear on the ballot. Organizer RyLee Curtis said Friday her group is going to the voters after years of unsuccessfully pushing state lawmakers to cover thousands of the state’s poor. Similar […]
AMES, Iowa-Per a report in the Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper at Iowa State University, Iowa State named University of Utah enterprise student systems director Mark Simpson has been named as the Ames, Iowa-based university’s new registrar. Simpson will commence in his new duties May 21 and he has […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A study indicates the demand for Utah housing is exceeding the supply, resulting in rising prices that could affect some households more than others. The Spectrum reports the University of Utah study made public Tuesday has found that the increase of housing prices is outpacing wage growth, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A report indicates that the percentage of women in top positions at Utah businesses has been reduced by nearly half since 2014. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the study by the Utah Women and Leadership Project has found that 6.4 percent of women filled top leadership roles […]
Customers of Dominion Energy in Utah may see a confusing letter in their mailbox. The utility company says a third-party service provider who doesn’t work with them is using their letterhead to try and sell insurance. The state Division of Public Utilities is asking anyone who has received one of these […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah voters are poised to decide whether to make it easier for political candidates to bypass their party’s convention system. An updated count of verified signatures posted by the state’s elections office Thursday shows the initiative has unofficially qualified for the ballot. The proposal would […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Body camera footage released in an officer-involved shooting in Salt Lake City shows the victim was armed with a knife and told police to shoot him before he was killed during a standoff with a SWAT team. Salt Lake City police released the footage Wednesday […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A 56-year-old Utah man is facing a terrorism-related charge after he allegedly threatened to blow up a county government building in Provo. The Daily Herald reports Miguel Gedo made his initial court appearance in Fourth District Court Wednesday on a charge of second-degree felony threat of terrorism. Deputy […]
Will he or won’t he represent himself? That seemed to be the question on Wednesday as John Coltharp made a request to represent himself in his child kidnapping and sexual abuse case in Sixth District Court. Coltharp is facing four felony charges, the most serious being a 1st degree felony […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah is part of a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to stress abstinence and other methods aside from contraceptives in national family planning policy. The Utah affiliate joined counterparts from Wisconsin and Ohio in filing the suit in Washington […]
