(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Medicaid has advised pharmacies to provide free medication to 17-thousand Medicaid members amid a cyber outage. The outage has caused issues with prescription information, and the medication will be given to high-risk patients who need it to survive. Officials say the outage is expected […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — About 850 Utah residents are set to receive approximately five-point-eight-million dollars in student loan forgiveness. The Biden administration says this is part of the Saving on a Valuable Education Plan effort. Money coming to Utahns is just a portion of the one-point-two-billion-dollars that is being […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers say a new arena in downtown Salt Lake City would be on the table if the National Hockey League gave the city a franchise team. Senate legislators are considering a bill to create a sports and entertainment project area. SB272, the “Capital City […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — NORAD says the high-altitude balloon they intercepted over Utah was likely a “hobby balloon.” The “small balloon” was detected at an altitude of about 44-thousand feet Friday, but NORAD determined it didn’t present any sort of threat to national security. The balloon was described as […]
(Washington, D.C.) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is coming back from Washington after the winter meeting of the National Governors Association. As chair, he spoke to the media after a business meeting at the White House on Friday. Cox was joined by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — This February looks to be one of Utah’s wettest on record. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center recently issued its three-month outlook for this spring. That report shows much of the state has a greater probability of above-normal temperatures. All Utah is showing equal […]
(Washington, D.C.) — Governor Cox spoke to LGBTQ-plus issues while at a Disagree Better event at George Washington University in DC. Cox called gender-affirming care genital-mutilation when asked about the state ban. A spokesperson for the Governor told the Salt Lake Tribune that Cox was dissatisfied with his response and […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A bill that would change the book banning process in Utah schools is going to Governor Cox’s desk. If signed into law, a book that has what is believed to be “objective sensitive material” would require two school districts or five charter schools banning it […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – The Utah Supreme Court says it is possible to be found not guilty of murder but be guilty of other crimes in the same case. The state’s high court in early February upheld a ruling by the state’s Court of Appeals in a case involving […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — An eye care bill in the state legislature is pitting two groups of professionals against one another. Senate Bill 210 would allow optometrists to perform certain laser procedures. SB210 is sponsored by Republican Representative James Dunnigan of Taylorsville and Provo Republican Senator Curtis Bramble. The […]
