SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police are looking for a suspect following a stabbing that left a woman dead and a man hospitalized in critical condition. Police say the victims were found Wednesday night behind a trash container in the vicinity of a transient camp and that […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As a girl, Debra Haaland remembers joining her grandmother as she chopped wood and fetched water for her home in tiny Mesita, a Native American community situated in New Mexico’s high desert. Haaland, an enrolled Laguna Pueblo member, is certain it was these early experiences and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 23 points in his return from an ankle injury and the Utah Jazz beat the Dallas Mavericks 117-102 on Wednesday night to end a four-game skid. Mitchell also had seven assists and five rebounds, and Rudy Gobert had 17 points, 10 rebounds […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Jonathan Nez has been elected president of the Navajo Nation and is warning of tough times ahead for the tribe on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. Unofficial election results for the reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah show Nez overwhelmingly beat former […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for a man charged with killing a Utah couple and dumping their bodies want the presiding judge to recuse herself. The Deseret News reports the attorneys allege Judge Christine Johnson has shown bias and coordinated with prosecutors to obtain testimony from Jerrod William Baum’s girlfriend that could […]
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan is aiming to build a potentially lucrative industry from the ground up with passage of a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana. It could do more by serving as a model for the rest of the Midwest — and possibly beyond. Michigan is the first Midwestern […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Utah Rep. Mia Love is trailing in her re-election bid because she’s kept him at arm’s length. The Associated Press has not yet called the race, but Trump claimed his fellow Republican “lost” after a campaign where she stressed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on elections in Utah (all times local): 5 p.m. Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love remains locked in a tight race with Democratic challenger Ben McAdams as she fights to keep her House seat in a largely suburban, politically mixed district. McAdams’ lead inched […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation Vice President Jonathan Nez had a significant lead late Tuesday over his opponent in the race for the tribe’s top post in an election marred by widespread reports of ballot shortages. Nez had nearly double the votes of former two-term President Joe Shirley Jr. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah voters rejected a ballot measure Tuesday that would have boosted education funding through a gas tax in a state that has the lowest per pupil spending in the nation. Three other ballot initiatives were leading, but too close to be declared victorious at the […]
