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Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Use of Signal message ‘contradictory to Colorado law’ led to Utah student’s ICE arrest, sheriff says

By: Chase Woodruff – June 18, 20256:01 am The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, operated by private prison firm GEO Group, is pictured...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Beloved Utah fashion designer’s friends remember his life and his last moments

By: Alixel Cabrera – June 18, 20256:01 am Arthur “Afa” Ah Loo, pictured with Rep. Verona Mauga. Ah Loo died at Salt Lake City “No Kings”...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Mike Lee outrages Minnesota politicians with social media jabs about lawmaker’s murder

By: Kyle Dunphey – June 17, 20256:00 am U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, participates in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Before the shots rang out, nonviolence and unity defined ‘No Kings’ protest

By: McKenzie Romero – June 17, 20256:00 am People take part in the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Photo...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Police investigating ‘peacekeepers’ role in fatal shooting at ‘No Kings’ protest in Utah

By: Katie McKellar – June 17, 20256:00 am A man receives medical attention after being taken into police custody after a shooting at the “No Kings”...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

8-month-old baby among 3 dead from shooting at West Valley City carnival

By: Katie McKellar – June 17, 20256:00 am Police respond to a shooting at WestFest at Centennial Park in West Valley City on Sunday, June 15,...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Salt Lake County officials want your help to combat rising elder abuse

By: Katie McKellar – June 17, 20256:00 am (Photo illustration by Dean Mitchell via Getty Images) Faced with rising numbers of elder abuse and exploitation cases...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Vance Boelter, accused of assassination of DFL House leader Melissa Hortman, apprehended

By: Madison McVan – June 16, 20256:01 am Law enforcement stage in a neighborhood on June 15, 2025 in Green Isle, Minnesota. Law enforcement agencies are...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Man dies after being shot in chaotic scene at Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest

By: Alixel Cabrera – June 16, 20256:01 am Lisa Anger, left, and Amber Ponder hug near the scene where a man was shot during the “No...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

2 people shot, including suspect in custody, during ‘No Kings’ protest in Salt Lake City, Utah

By: Katie McKellar, McKenzie Romero – June 15, 20256:01 am People administer aid to a victim after gunshots were fired during a “No Kings” protest near...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

‘Heartbroken and outraged’: Utah Democrats mourn attacks on their Minnesota colleagues

By: McKenzie Romero – June 15, 20256:01 am The Capitol in Salt Lake City is pictured on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Minnesota House Democratic leader dead after ‘politically motivated assassination’

By: Michelle Griffith – June 15, 20256:01 am Speaker emeritus Rep. Melissa Hartman talks to colleagues during a special legislative session Monday, June 9, 2025 at...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

New West Valley hospital starts construction, hoping to bridge health disparities

By: Alixel Cabrera – June 14, 20256:00 am Rendering of proposed Eccles Hospital and Health Campus, scheduled to open in 2028. (Courtesy of University of Utah...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

‘Yellowstone’ spinoff among new Utah film productions approved under tax incentive program

By: Kyle Dunphey – June 14, 20256:00 am The Capitol in Salt Lake City is pictured on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Alliance for the Wild Rockies halts Forest Service plan to log and burn Manti-La Sal National Forest

By: Mike Garrity – June 14, 20256:00 am The Manti-La Sal National Forest covers more than 1.2 million acres in the central and southeastern parts of...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Trump acknowledges deportation agenda is hurting hospitality, promises ‘changes are coming’

By: Dana Gentry – June 14, 20256:00 am The Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current) Complaints from the farm and hotel industries...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Uinta Basin Railway group looks to fund project with $2.4 billion in federal bonds

By: Kyle Dunphey – June 14, 20256:00 am Anglers fish on the Colorado River near an idle Union Pacific freight train in western Grand County on...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Utah proposes developing uranium processing facility on military grounds

By: Alixel Cabrera – June 13, 20256:00 am Drew DeWalt from Utah Energy speaks at the announcement of a proposed lease of Camp Williams land to...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Fire officials say Idaho has ‘greater potential’ for significant wildfire season this summer

By: Clark Corbin – June 13, 20256:00 am Firefighters work along Idaho Highway 21 west of Stanley to fight the Wapiti Fire on Aug. 26, 2024....
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Mike Lee brings back proposal to sell public land in Utah, other Western states

By: Kyle Dunphey – June 13, 20256:00 am Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, participates in a forum hosted by the Sutherland Institute at the University of Utah’s...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Trump response to LA protests an ‘escalation of fear’ for immigrants, a top Utah Democrat says

By: Katie McKellar – June 12, 20256:00 am House Minority Leader Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, is pictured on the first day of the legislative session...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Advocates call on Sens. Lee, Curtis, to revive payments to downwinders in ‘big, beautiful’ bill

By: Kyle Dunphey – June 12, 20256:00 am Steve Erickson, an advocate for downwinders, speaks to reporters about a possible RECA expansion in Salt Lake City...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Utah SNAP ban on soda gets green light, along with ‘MAHA’ waivers for Idaho, Arkansas

By: Katie McKellar – June 12, 20256:00 am U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. speaks to reporters during an event at the University...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

As Cox advances nuclear agreements, he says the cost to develop technology is nothing so far

By: Alixel Cabrera – June 12, 20256:00 am Gov. Spencer Cox answers questions from the media during his monthly PBS news conference in Salt Lake City...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

‘Dumb flags’ and a ‘dumb bill’: Utah governor rolls his eyes at SLC’s workaround of flag ban

By: Katie McKellar – June 11, 20256:00 am Flags adopted as official banners of Salt Lake City, circumventing the state’s ban on most flags being displayed...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

With eye on LA protests, Gov. Cox warns Utah will be ‘overprepared,’ won’t tolerate violence

By: Katie McKellar – June 11, 20256:00 am Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during his monthly news conference in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 10, 2025....
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

As state moves toward execution, Ralph Menzies’ attorneys appeal to Utah Supreme Court

By: Kyle Dunphey – June 11, 20256:00 am Ralph Leroy Menzies listens as attorney Eric Zuckerman talks to the judge during a competency hearing in 3rd...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Utah earns Moody’s highest credit rating again

By: Alixel Cabrera – June 11, 20256:00 am The downtown Salt Lake City skyline is backdropped by fresh snow on the Wasatch Mountains on Monday, Jan....
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Researchers may be underestimating the intensity of Utah’s future big earthquakes, study finds

By: Alixel Cabrera – June 11, 20256:00 am The 1896 Sears mansion in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Wells neighborhood sustained major damage in the Magna Earthquake...
Utah News Dispatch6 months ago

Dozens of environmental groups sign letter opposing return of Utah public lands sale

By: Kyle Dunphey – June 10, 20256:00 am People rally in opposition of Utah’s lawsuit attempting to take control of federal lands at the Capitol in...

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