SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The cost of hand-painted Salt Lake City mayoral portraits has risen significantly over the last two decades with outgoing Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s painting expected to cost about $35,000. That budgeted taxpayer cost being considered by the Salt Lake City council for the Biskupski portrait is […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — 8:25 p.m. A Salt Lake City councilwoman who rose to prominence fighting pollution has taken an early lead in the race to become the next mayor. Erin Mendenhall won 59 percent of the vote in the first round of ballots released shortly after polls closed. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Lawmakers in conservative Utah passed sweeping changes Monday to a new voter-approved medical-marijuana ballot measure under a planned compromise that secured the support of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but sparked a backlash from advocates. Supporters of the compromise cheered the vote, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a medical-marijuana special session of the Utah Legislature (all times local): 2 p.m. The Utah House of Representatives has passed a compromise plan to legalize medical marijuana despite concerns that the regulations make it too hard for patients to access the drug. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah businessman is challenging Salt Lake City mayor Jackie Biskupski in hopes of becoming the capital’s first ethnic-minority leader. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Democrat David Ibarra made the announcement Tuesday backed by Salt Lake County Attorney Sim Gill and former mayor Rocky Anderson. Ibarra’s father […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Salt Lake City mayor is dropping a lawsuit claiming the National Security Agency conducted “blanket” surveillance in Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah. Rocky Anderson said in court documents Thursday that he’s been so stymied in his efforts to […]
