(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah will have some of the lowest electric rates in the U.S. this year. The cost of electricity for most customers is a little more than one-thousand dollars annually. Utah residents reportedly only paid 11.03 cents per kilowatt hour in 2023 — one-and-a-half times lower […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — After weeks of outages, all Utah Medicaid patients should be able to fill their prescriptions. Yesterday, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services reported that Change Healthcare’s system — which had been experiencing the outages — had been restored. Officials say they’ll continue to […]
U.S. Highway 189 at Deer Creek Reservoir was closed in both directions on Tuesday due to a crash. According to Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Cameron Roden, a semitruck rolled on its side, seemingly while attempting to follow the bendy road. The driver sustained minor injures and traffic was stopped while […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A 25-year-old man is pleading guilty to shooting and killing University of Utah football player Aaron Lowe in 2021. Buk Mawut Buk pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder, first-degree felonies yesterday. In exchange for that plea, prosecutors dismissed additional charges of obstruction of justice […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Senator Todd Weiler will soon receive radiation therapy to treat his cancer. Weiler was diagnosed with prostate cancer years ago, and said he believed he was in the clear after he had his prostate removed in 2020, but recent testing confirmed the cancer isn’t […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The first minority judge in the state of Utah has passed away. Former district court judge and Ogden native Raymond Uno died at the age of 93 on Friday. Uno also used to serve as the deputy Salt Lake County Attorney and the state’s Assistant […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The latest legislative session has brought on about 70 bills affecting the education system in Utah. One bill would make it easier to ban books in schools if passed by Governor Cox. Another would make it easier to open microschools and allow parents to apply […]
(Cedar City, UT) — Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard was encouraged by Attorney General Sean Reyes to sue a political rival. According to new court filings, Reyes sent Ballard a tweet from freshman democratic state senator Nate Blouin that allegedly called “OUR” a criminal organization. The tweet was about […]
(Undated) — The future of Utah Water has been submitted to the Bureau of Reclamation. While the seven states that use the water initially wanted to create a unified plan for after 2026, that ultimately failed and the groups split into their predetermined upper and lower basin groups. Utah is […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah State Board of Education will be reviewing reading and comprehension skills tests this year. The board says it will examine the correlation between standardized tests that are administered to young students to assess these skills. The state periodically undertakes these studies to make […]
