SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who made unsuccessful bids for Congress and Salt Lake County mayor has been elected by Democratic party members to the Salt Lake County Council. Shireen Ghorbani topped nine other candidates in a Saturday special election to fill the at-large seat left open when […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elected officials in southwest Salt Lake County are floating the idea of splitting the county without a majority vote from the area they’d leave behind. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that representatives from Herriman, Riverton, West Jordan and Copperton say they don’t feel fully represented at the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Amid a sharp increase in fatal police shootings in Utah, a rift has developed between officers in Salt Lake County and the prosecutor charged with investigating them. District Attorney Sim Gill has decided against police officers in a handful of cases, and in some police […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Defeated Democratic congressional candidate Shireen Ghorbani is running to become the next mayor of Salt Lake County. Ghorbani declared her candidacy Saturday for the mayoral post being vacated by U.S. Rep.-elect Ben McAdams. Ghorbani works in communications at the University of Utah. In her first […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Mia Love was tabbed as a rising star in the GOP when she became the first black Republican woman in Congress with her 2014 victory. But on Tuesday she became the latest Republican incumbent to fall in the midterm election’s Democratic wave that has […]
FRUITLAND, Utah (AP) — Authorities have begun searching a central Utah reservoir for a missing man and woman. The Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office says a family member Thursday night reported that a 26-year-old Salt Lake County woman and a 24-year-old Minnesota man didn’t return from a camping trip to Strawberry […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love sued Wednesday to halt vote counting in the Utah race where she is narrowly trailing her Democratic challenger. Love’s campaign said in a lawsuit Salt Lake County clerk isn’t allowing poll-watchers to challenge findings during the verification process for mail-in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge has ruled Salt Lake County’s clerk complied with state election law in issuing ballots to registered voters in a timely manner. A lawsuit filed last week by two Republican candidates claimed thousands of ballots weren’t shipped out to voters in a timely manner. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — If a Utah race is too close to call on Election Night — a possibility in the slugfest between Republican Rep. Mia Love and Democrat Ben McAdams — residents and candidates will have to wait to find out who won because the state recommends counties […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democrat Ben McAdams has more money going into the final weeks of his campaign challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love in Utah’s most competitive race, according to new fundraising reports. Love outraised McAdams, but also spent more as the race heated up in the district […]
