Utah lawmakers have more money to spend during their 2026 legislative session than they had originally projected, according to new revenue estimates. “Suprise, surprise, folks,” Senate Budget Chair Jerry Stevenson said on the Senate floor Friday. He announced that legislative fiscal ...
For two years now, animal advocates have urged Utah lawmakers to do something to help cats and dogs saved from abusive situations only to spend months or years stuck in animal shelters as their owners’ criminal cases wind slowly through the courts, with taxpayers footing the bill. They may ...
Editor's note: This is the first of two stories following an Ogden Standard-Examiner editorial board interview with U.S. Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, during a visit to Ogden on Wednesday afternoon. Sen. Curtis discussed improvements to Hill Air Force Base, funding for new infrastructure and the ...
As a blizzard descended on Salt Lake City on Wednesday, a federal three-judge panel spent hours grilling attorneys on opposing sides of a new redistricting lawsuit seeking to throw out a state judge’s earlier decisions that voided Utah’s 2021 congressional map and ordered a remedial map ...
Biscuit was still a puppy — just 1 year old — when her owner at the time was charged with animal abuse. “Her kennel mate did not survive the animal cruelty, but she did,” said Talia Butler, division director of Salt Lake County Animal Services. But even after Biscuit was confiscated ...
The Utah Legislature sent another bill impacting the judiciary to Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk on Friday. Within hours, the governor signed it without publicly weighing in. The Utah House on Friday morning gave final legislative approval to HB392, a bill to create a rotating, three-judge ...
