Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Tuesday announced his appointments for two new justices on the Utah Supreme Court after the Legislature expanded it from five to seven seats earlier this year. Cox picked Jay Jorgensen, who currently works as a senior attorney for the state’s predominant faith, The ...

Amid ongoing outcry over a massive, 40,000-acre data center campus being planned in northern Utah, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams announced that he’s calling for the project to be scaled back dramatically. “I’ve sent a letter directly to Kevin O’Leary calling for a 75% reduction in ...

Lorene Kamalu’s reason for wanting to run for reelection to the Davis County Commission this year boils down to a feeling. She had been thinking of whether she wanted to run for a third term as early as the middle of 2024. Commissioner Bob Stevenson made the decision to not run for a ...

Jona Whitesides considers the handling of Davis County’s contract with the lieutenant governor’s office prior to the 2024 election to be a leading factor for why he decided to run to become the next Davis County clerk. The contract had expired, and while the Davis County Commission had ...

The thing Brian McKenzie enjoys the most about being the Davis County clerk is election day. “I love election day,” he said. “The way that my brain works is I love to see the big picture and bring it all together, and election day is months in the making of planning and logistics and ...

Editor's note: The Standard-Examiner has invited primary candidates from Weber and Davis counties to sit down to answer questions from the editorial board and share their vision. Over the next month, the Standard-Examiner will share the highlights from these conversations, giving candidates ...