FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Tribes welcomed an infusion of money in the massive infrastructure bill to expand broadband coverage, fix roads and address water and sanitation needs, but they say real change will come only with sustained investment. President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion deal earlier this week that […]
Americans may soon get a better glimpse into a future of green-friendly transportation by visiting a U.S. national park. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were signing a joint pledge Wednesday to test some of the newest and most innovative travel technologies on public lands and improve […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Treasury from enforcing a provision of the American Rescue Plan Act that prohibited states from using the pandemic relief funds to offset new tax cuts. Monday, U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler ruled in Alabama that Congress exceeded its […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A small city in the top U.S. coal-mining state of Wyoming will be home to a Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power project near a coal-fired power plant that will soon close, per a Tuesday announcement. Bellevue, Wash.-based TerraPower will build its Natrium plant in Kemmerer, a […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A second set of states has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. The latest suit, dated Monday, was filed in Louisiana on behalf of 12 states and comes less than a week after another lawsuit challenging the […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A private port operator in the San Francisco Bay Area that stores coal from Utah before it’s shipped to Asia has been given until 2027 to continue those operations under terms of a settlement. Officials in Richmond, Calif. where the port is located, agreed to the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Monday, The Supreme Court turned away appeals from Volkswagen that sought to stop state and local lawsuits related to the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have rigged its vehicles to cheat U.S. diesel emissions tests. The court’s action allows suits by Ohio, Salt Lake […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — At least four cities and towns in Utah appear to have elected their first women mayors: West Valley City, Park City, Parowan and North Logan. Just 17 percent of Utah mayors are women, according to a January 2021 report from the Utah Women and Leadership […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — As things stood, Abby Reader, a junior high music teacher, figured she and her family would be renting long into the indefinite future. She and her husband, Kevin, living in a rental that was too small for their growing family, had been hoping to get their […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Friday, the Davis School District said it will open an independent investigation into alleged bullying of a 10-year-old girl who died by suicide after her family says she was harassed by fellow students for being black and autistic. The family of Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor accuses the […]
