SANDY, Utah (AP) — Search crews on Friday uncovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City a day earlier and were preparing to bring them off the mountain via helicopter, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said. The men, ages […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could threaten their safety. The onslaught has led the state […]
Galena, a 6-year-old house cat from Utah, likes hiding and playing with cardboard. Earlier this month, the combination of the two made for a stressful trip in an Amazon package, a feverish search, a California rescue and a tearful reunion. Her family is still waiting to “reintroduce cardboard to her again,” owner Carrie Clark said […]
Since becoming a Republican, I have had a pretty good track record of attending the state conventions as a delegate. The Utah GOP is on a caucus-convention system. By way of a quick briefing, precincts hold caucus meetings to elect delegates who then go to the convention to vote on platform planks and nominate […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State Rep. Phil Lyman was selected as the Utah Republican gubernatorial nominee at the party’s convention Saturday, though political observers say incumbent Gov. Spencer Cox remains the likely favorite in the upcoming primary. Lyman, a former county commissioner turned legislator best known for organizing an illegal ATV ride in 2014 […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly a dozen Utah Republicans vying to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate are set to square off Saturday for the party nomination in a race expected to reveal the brand of political conservatism that most appeals to modern voters in the state. Romney has long been the face of […]
The Nebo School District is located toward the southern end of Utah County. For years, it was a rural area and predominantly agricultural. That has changed as more people and businesses have flocked to the Beehive State. The small towns have gotten bigger, and the spaces between them, once occupied by little more than […]
In Salt Lake City, a women’s professional soccer team has been making waves in the local media, but not because of the team’s record. The Utah Royals have been drawing unwanted attention over protests against their jerseys. Typically. when we see protests over sports jerseys they involve some sort of Native American imagery or perhaps […]
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit accusing the state of Utah, and its Department of Corrections, of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act in failing to give a man hormones for his gender dysphoria. The prisoner, who identifies as a transgender woman, is said to have requested to […]
A Republican candidate for governor of Utah has linked diversity, equity, and inclusion to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The bridge collapsed early Tuesday after the cargo ship Dali drifted into a bridge support. Among the reactions that looked past the immediate cause, state Rep. Phil Lyman appeared to indicate […]
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