(Undated) — Utah has one of the highest rates of young driver deaths in the United States. That’s the conclusion of a recent study using data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. During a five-year period starting in 2017, Utah ranked third in the nation for highway deaths involving […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah is adding jobs and the unemployment rate is staying low. The state added nearly 49-thousand jobs over the past 12 months, according to the latest figures from the Department of Workforce Services. That’s a two-point-nine percent increase. Meanwhile, the state’s unemployment rate remained at […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Congressman Chris Stewart is giving his support to one of the candidates running to replace him in the Second Congressional District special election. Stewart announced yesterday that he is endorsing Republican candidate Celeste Maloy. Maloy has worked for Stewart as his chief legal council for […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration proposed new rules for protecting imperiled plants and animals on Wednesday that would reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates protections for species […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Bibles will return to the shelves in the Davis School District per Tuesday reports. Officials reported at a Tuesday board meeting that the district had determined the sacred text was age-appropriate for all district libraries. In allowing the Bible to be accessible to students regardless […]
Native American nations say the Supreme Court’s rejection of a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from state governments. They say the case conservative groups raised on behalf of four Native American children was a stalking horse for legal arguments that could have broadly […]
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had come upon a gory crash. The ground surrounding Elko’s stretch of Interstate 80 looked as if it had been covered in blood. As the red color shifted and moved, she realized instead […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is ending its long-time tradition of ceremonies celebrating the placement of temple cornerstones. A notice posted on the Church’s website on Saturday notes that construction techniques have advanced to the point that cornerstones are no longer included […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Many Utahns are not going to let the cost of gas keep them from traveling this summer. About 54-percent of those asked in a new Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll say gas prices are something they consider before traveling. But only six-percent of the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Attorney General’s Office is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed attempting to block the state’s new online age-verification law. Lawyers for the state say the Free Speech Coalition is suing the wrong people, noting that the new law allows […]
