SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two teens in Utah have been arrested for making separate threats that police say alluded to potential school shootings. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the teens were arrested despite law enforcement officials concluding the threats were not serious. The newspaper reports a 17-year-old boy was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — MetLife is joining other U.S. companies in severing ties to the National Rifle Association following a school massacre in Parkland, Florida. The insurer terminated discounts that had been offered to NRA members on the NRA website . Enterprise Holdings has already ended its discount program and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker won unanimous committee approval for a proposal to add $5 million to a fund designed to lure movie and television film crews to the state. Republican state Sen. Jake Anderegg of Lehi told the Deseret News he knows incentives in his bill […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Senate president says state troopers have closed an investigation into a lawmaker’s strange encounter with a woman outside his hotel room without determining who the woman was or what happened. Senate President Wayne Niederhauser said Thursday that Utah’s Highway Patrol, which provides security to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Navajos who once worried they would have to drive hours to cast their ballots in Utah say a court settlement is a step forward as tribes challenge what they call discriminatory voting practices around the United States. The agreement that requires tribally accessible polling places […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee says there’s no way to ban or buyback AR-15-style assault rifles like the kind used by a shooter at a Florida high school last week without also banning hunting rifles. He made the comments Thursday in response to a question […]
SPRINGDALE, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park in Utah is closing access to 13 popular rock-climbing cliffs as part of an annual effort to protect sensitive nesting sites for peregrine falcons. The National Park Service officials announced this week that climbing routes will close March 1 while wildlife biologists to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A panel of Utah lawmakers has endorsed a bill that would increase the penalty for intentionally killing a police dog. The Deseret News reports that the proposal would bump intentionally or knowingly killing a police dog from a third-degree felony to a second-degree felony. Police […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers setting this year’s state budget estimate they will have more than $500 million in surplus tax collections to work with. Legislators released estimates Wednesday showing a $453 million surplus to spend on ongoing costs like salaries and $128 million for one-time projects like […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Legislature unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday honoring retiring U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch. The resolution declared the day “Orrin G. Hatch Day” in honor of Hatch and his 40-plus years in the U.S. Senate. The Republican senator was at the state Capitol during the votes […]
