OGDEN — Utah's newest member of the U.S. Senate, John Curtis, visited Northern Utah on Friday to meet with officials at Hill Air Force Base, tour Weber State University and consult with local leaders about key regional needs. Curtis told the Standard-Examiner that his trip to the ...
After days of radio silence in response to pleas from teachers, firefighters and police to veto a highly controversial bill, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s answer didn’t come until late Friday night on Valentine’s Day. The governor signed HB267, a bill to ban public unions from collective ...
Educators gathered in front of the governor’s office Friday morning to silently protest and ask Gov. Spencer Cox to veto HB267, the bill that would ban collective bargaining for unions in the public sector. The silent protest comes a week after almost 1,000 teachers, firefighters and other ...
Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake — and what can be done to make a difference before it ...
Tackling Utah’s stubborn housing affordability crisis continues to be a stated top priority for state leaders — but at the same time lawmakers still resist taking broad, aggressive action to more widely allow smaller housing types. Met with pushback from local governments fearing loss of ...
One size doesn’t fit all, Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, said about schools in the state. A way to find solutions in the public education system may be in a $65 million project aiming to create or expand “catalyst centers” to provide technical tools for students who may not ...
