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Start-up airline Breeze plots major expansion this summer

Start-up airline Breeze plots major expansion this summer

DALLAS (AP) — Tuesday, Startup discount carrier Breeze Airways said  it will add 35 routes from 10 more cities including some on the West Coast this summer in an aggressive expansion just as jet fuel prices are soaring to an 8-year high. “Fares have got to go up to cover […]

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Public Comments Now Being Accepted For Revised Draft of Utah Effective Teaching Standards

SALT LAKE CITY-Proposed revisions for Utah’s Effective Teaching Standards for K-12 students have been released by the Utah State Board of Education Monday. These revisions emanate from design teams who have spent months devising a framework to guide characteristics of effective teaching while also providing flexibility for schools and districts […]

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Planned Utah-based oil rail line draws Colorado opposition

DENVER (AP) — Dozens of Colorado counties and cities are opposing a Utah-based railroad project that would bring as many as 10 two-mile-long (3.2-kilometer-long) trains carrying oil through Denver each day. The proposed 85-mile (137-kilometer) railroad line has federal approval but opponents say there is no clear picture of the […]

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Utah governor says he’ll veto transgender youth sports ban

Utah governor says he’ll veto transgender youth sports ban

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Friday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he plans to veto legislation banning transgender student-athletes from girls sports if it’s sent to him in the final hours before lawmakers adjourn. Transgender girls in Utah wouldn’t be able to play sports on teams that correspond with their […]

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Judge dismisses suit in fatal Salt Lake City police shooting

Judge dismisses suit in fatal Salt Lake City police shooting

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Utah man who was shot at nearly 30 times and killed as he ran away from Salt Lake City police in 2020. U.S. District Judge David Barlow ruled that the […]

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Governor to sign law keeping some police statements secret

Governor to sign law keeping some police statements secret

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Some police statements made during internal investigations into shootings and other high-profile incidents will no longer be accessible to the public under a law that Utah Gov. Spencer Cox plans to sign. Friday, Cox told The Associated Press on Friday he will sign a bill […]

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Utah State Courts Rescind Mask Mandate for some Court Facilities

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – On September 17, 2021, the Chief Justice, on behalf of the Utah Judicial Council, issued an administrative order which included a mask mandate in all court facilities located in a county designated by the Utah Department of Health as a medium or high transmission index county. […]

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Water proposals trickle through Utah Statehouse in last days

Water proposals trickle through Utah Statehouse in last days

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After the iconic Great Salt Lake hit its lowest level in recorded history, Utah’s Republican-majority Legislature is working to preserve the lake, incentivize conservation and prepare for a hotter, drier future. In the final days before they adjourn, lawmakers are advancing proposals to set aside […]

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Popular hard seltzers to be scarcer in Utah under new law

Popular hard seltzers to be scarcer in Utah under new law

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hard seltzer drinkers in Utah will likely have their choices on grocery store shelves cut in half under legislation that passed the Legislature Thursday in the latest update to strict alcohol laws in the state that’s home to the alcohol-eschewing Church of Jesus Christ of […]

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Utah to scrap body measurements from transgender sports bill

Utah to scrap body measurements from transgender sports bill

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender kids wouldn’t be required to report certain body measurements to play sports in Utah, but their participation would still be up to a government-appointed panel of experts under a proposal moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature. Rep. Kera Birkeland, a Republican who coaches junior varsity […]

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