Utah Republicans in Congress found little to like in President Joe Biden’s animated, campaign-minded State of the Union address, blasting him on his border policies and bemoaning his failure to address the nation’s deficit and debt. In a video response following the speech, Utah GOP Sen. ...
With the calendar turning to March, it won't be long before the mountain snowpack on the Wasatch Front starts making its way down the slopes. Weber County officials are starting to watch and see if that snowmelt will present a flooding problem in the lower elevations. Eli Johnson, Weber ...
In December, Utah Transit Authority officers responded to a family of six sleeping outside of a bus station in Salt Lake City. Originally from Venezuela, the family communicated to officers through Google Translate, telling them they came from Denver on a Greyhound bus “and did not have ...
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The Utah Republican Party rolled out a new caucus registration system for the 2024 primary — in several locations the system proved to be confusing and burdensome for voters, including Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights where a palpably frustrated crowd turned out on Tuesday ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of State Parks officially has a new director. Bountiful native and Weber State University alumnus Scott Strong, who spent the previous six years as Utah State Parks’ deputy director of business management and eight years as the division’s financial ...
OGDEN — The people of Ogden will have a chance to get their first look at several U.S. Senate candidates next week. Jill Koford of the Weber County Republican Women told the Standard-Examiner that the group will be hosting a forum to meet the GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate seat that is ...
WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion groups, attorneys general from 25 states and more than 140 members of Congress have signed on to dozens of briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court during the past two weeks, encouraging the justices to revert use and prescribing of the medication abortion pill mifepristone ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Gun violence prevention advocates who gathered Monday at the Utah State Capitol called on Gov. Spencer Cox to veto legislation that they said could place children in harm's way by training more teachers to carry firearms on campus. The bill funding tactical training for ...
The Utah Legislature’s marathon, 45-day general session came to an end Friday shortly before midnight after legislators finalized the state’s $29.4 billion budget and pushed a record-breaking 591 bills across the finish line — 16 more than last year. The 2024 session — which opened ...
