(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is poised to contend for another term in November. Unofficial results from the primary election showed the incumbent with nearly 57-percent of the vote as of early this morning. His challenger, Phil Lyman, told the Salt Lake Tribune he had no plans […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is asking Utahns to come to the rescue of foster kids. Cox said children across the Beehive State need foster parents because of a massive shortage. There are more than 17-hundred foster kids, but only 822 families licensed to care for them. […]
An officer is dead and a man is in custody after an hours long manhunt spanning multiple counties. According to police, it started around 6:30 a.m. May 5 when a Santaquin police officer, Sergeant Bill Hooser, was assisting on a call for a man standing on the back of a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Republican Party has selected Trent Staggs as its nominee to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate, hours after the local official received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. While the endorsement on Saturday carries Staggs through convention with more than two-thirds of delegate […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah First Lady Abby Cox is facing weeks of recovery this spring after she had spinal surgery yesterday. The governor’s office released a statement saying the First Lady had surgery to remove degenerative discs in her neck which had caused weeks of debilitating pain. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Governor Spencer Cox has signed House Bill 84 into law, which makes silent alarms a requirement in schools across the state. The alarms can be triggered in the event of a mass shooting, which alerts police and first responders as quickly as possible. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — While not being approved by Governor Cox, the psilocybin program will go into effect on May first. The program allows doctors at the University of Utah Health and Intermountain to prescribe Magic Mushrooms and MDMA to patients struggling with mental health. This comes as studies […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — In the latest session Governor Cox has vetoed seven bills, the second most in at least the past quarter century. The majority of them were denied because he believed it was unnecessary to craft legislation around the items proposed. In total five-hundred 55 bills were […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox has signed a bill that adds the Ten Commandments and Magna Carta to Utah public school history studies. Cox signing House Bill 269, also called Public School History Curricula Amendments, which means the two historical documents will be taught to students alongside […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox has signed a bill into law making it easier to ban books. The bill was one of 72 signed. It now takes less than ten-percent of Utah Schools, including charters, to trigger a statewide book ban. The ban can be appealed if the […]
