(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is thanking a Utah state trooper for sacrificing his vehicle to stop a wrong-way driver on Interstate 15. The Utah Highway Patrol says the driver was spotted in the northbound lanes of I-15 near 600 South early yesterday. Trooper Devin Henson used […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will soon join the growing list of states transitioning away from treating the pandemic as a public health crisis and shift to a policy focused on managing risk. Gov. Spencer Cox said Friday that Utah health officials would phase out mass testing sites and […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox says pumping more water into the Great Salt Lake will not have an impact on efforts to address decreasing water levels on Lake Powell in southern Utah. Governor Cox says the watersheds are different and adds the effort in the south needs […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Governor Spencer Cox plans to veto legislation that would create a school voucher system in Utah schools. During his monthly news conference, Governor Cox said he does support the use of school vouchers that would allow families to direct the public funds for their children […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is inviting the public to take part in a virtual town hall. The event will be live-streamed on the governor’s social media accounts at seven o’clock tonight. The public is being invited to submit questions in advance, though questions will also be […]
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, 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. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is putting the brakes on a program that allowed COVID-19 testing to help keep kids in school. Governor Cox signed House Bill 183 into law yesterday. The measure pauses the state’s “Test to Stay” program, which required a certain threshold of positive […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — An environmental group is accusing the Bureau of Land Management of damaging a Utah site containing historic dinosaur tracks. The Center for Biological Diversity says the agency has driven over and destroyed up to 30-percent of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite near Moab while trying […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Two state lawmakers are hoping to push their colleagues into discussing a proposal to eliminate the state’s sales tax on food. Democratic Representative Rosemary Lesser and Republican Representative Judy Weeks Rohner plan to speak to reporters about the issue this morning. Governor Cox has already […]
