SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are expected to dig in on tax reform, Medicaid and more starting Monday when the state Legislature meets for a whirlwind annual session that wraps up the second week of March. Chief among lawmakers’ priorities will be setting a budget that sends significant […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s unemployment rate remains at historic lows. The state Department of Workforce Services said Friday unemployment dropped one-tenth of a percent from November to a December rate of 3.1 percent. Meanwhile, Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for December grew by an estimated 2.7 percent from the […]
By Jaden Kitchen The Trump administration is considering changes to the medicaid program. The new plan includes adding work requirements for people with Medicaid. Stacy Stanford with the Utah Health Policy Project disagrees with the plan. She says that the common refrain that poor people just don’t want to work […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a 28-year-old Utah man charged with killing a man who was in bed with his ex-girlfriend in a Cedar City trailer park. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that Mark Mair’s attorney, Douglas Terry, called […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Both Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks have reported a record number of visitors for 2017. The Spectrum reported Thursday that Zion National Park saw more than 4.5 million visitors last year, which is up 5 percent from 2016. While Bryce Canyon National Park recorded […]
Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford did not shy away from addressing the elephants in the room — Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo — Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, saying that the fallen executive is not “going to stop the show.” Both the lingering shadow of Weinstein, who long lorded […]
MIDVALE, Utah (AP) — Crews have been working for hours to clear a portion of Interstate 15 in Midvale after a double tanker vehicle hauling gasoline exploded Thursday night. No one was injured, but the blaze temporarily shut down traffic in both directions. The Utah Department of Transportation dispatched crews […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talked business with a dose of politics in an appearance before Utah’s tech industry but kept mum about his political future Friday amid rampant speculation about a Senate run. Instead, the frequent critic of President Donald Trump emphasized the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Per The Associated Press and the Salt Lake Tribune, late Thursday evening, the University of Utah named Ruth Watkins as the 16th president in school history. Watkins, who was previously the U of U’s provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs as of 2014, also spent […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon missionary serving in Argentina has died. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Thursday in a news release that 20-year-old Emilio Ignacio Pradenas Diaz of Chile died Monday after a “brief, undiagnosed illness.” The cause of his death hasn’t been determined. […]
