SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Associated Press analysis of Utah state House elections using a statistical method for calculating partisan advantage found that Republicans won about three more seats than would be expected based on the party’s share of the vote in the 2018 midterm election. That is the […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Acting U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is ordering federal land managers to give more consideration to public access concerns when selling or trading public land. Thursday’s secretarial order comes amid longstanding complaints that millions of acres of state and federal land in the American West can […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Republican Party chairman says he won’t run for another term amid party infighting over a law changing how political candidates are nominated. Chairman Rob Anderson said Wednesday he can’t unify the party during heated debate over the 2014 law. His decision comes after […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s state veterinarian is advising horse owners to limit travel for their animals and to take precautions because of multiple cases of an equine virus reported in neighboring Nevada. Dr. Barry Pittman says the cases reported in Nevada involve horses that traveled on rodeo circuits […]
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of shooting and killing another man is dead after crashing his car into a Utah elementary school. The Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake says the man was driving a black Jeep Wrangler on Wednesday night and shot and killed […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah university newspaper believes budget cuts are targeting the publication and could impact the school’s journalism program. The Spectrum reported Wednesday that staff members at the Dixie Sun News say a planned cut to student fees is administrative retaliation for the newspaper’s coverage of stories that […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donovan Mitchell and Joe Ingles poured in shots from the outside and Rudy Gobert couldn’t miss from inside. The Utah Jazz are making the game look easy, and there was nothing the lowly New York Knicks could do to stop that. Mitchell scored 30 points, Gobert […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Syracuse senior guard Frank Howard is out “for an indefinite period of time” for violating school policy. The school announced Howard’s suspension on Wednesday, the eve of the Orange’s NCAA Tournament game against Baylor. The 6-foot-5 Howard lit up social media during the ACC tournament […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The vote on a plastic bag ban in a northern Utah city has been tabled for six months to allow officials to develop a plastic waste reduction program for the entire county. The Herald Journal reports Logan Municipal Council members on Tuesday voted on the motion 4 to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Republican senators defended late John McCain as a “hero” on Wednesday after President Donald Trump again denounced the Arizonan, who died of brain cancer in August. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted that he misses his friend “today and every day.” “It was a blessing to serve alongside […]
