SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — None of the data collected about the state’s homeless population helps evaluate the effectiveness of different programs because it’s riddled with inconsistencies and lacks clear, measurable goals, the stated auditor reports. The audit was designed to help state lawmakers decide which programs deserve funding, but […]
Salt Lake City got the green light to bid for the Winter Olympics — most likely for 2030 — in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002 and provided the backdrop for the U.S. winter team’s ascendance into an international powerhouse. The U.S. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is backtracking after saying this week that he wasn’t concerned that prosecutors have implicated President Donald Trump in a crime. The Republican senator said in a statement that he spoke “imprudently” in a CNN hallway interview Tuesday. He said the interview was unplanned […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Chicago native who has been on death row in Utah for more than three decades for the death of a Provo woman is seeking a new trial. The Deseret News reports 63-year-old Douglas Stewart Carter is asking the state Supreme Court to order a new hearing […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden says he initially refused to run with then-presidential candidate Barack Obama a decade ago, but his family ultimately convinced him he had to support an African-American candidate with a real chance of winning. Biden was greeted with a standing ovation […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Calls from jail suggest two Utah men are blaming each other for fatally shooting a homeless man. The Standard-Examiner reports Weber County residents Cory Michael Fitzwater and Dalton James Aiken each are charged with one count of murder and possession of a firearm by a restricted person. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A recently unsealed search warrant says a Utah teen secretly gave birth to a baby at her home, and then, after it died, hid the body in a drawer in her closet. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that when the 17-year-old girl’s father found the dead newborn […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on efforts for seven Southwestern states to reach agreement on Colorado River drought contingency plans (all times local): 12:40 p.m. Federal water managers are setting a Jan. 31 deadline for the seven Southwestern states that depend on the Colorado River to finalize unprecedented voluntary […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — City council members in Utah’s largest city voted Tuesday night to raise their own salaries by nearly $10,000 in a move they argue will allow more people from all economic backgrounds to consider serving in the future. Members of the Salt Lake City Council voted […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The sister of a missing Blackfeet woman in Montana is expressing frustration over police’s initial response to her loved one’s disappearance, saying in testimony prepared for U.S. senators Wednesday that dysfunctional investigations into missing persons cases have troubled numerous Native American families. The testimony from Kimberly […]
