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Utah News Dispatch8 months ago

Curtis joins bipartisan bill to reduce wildfire risks in the West after years of devastating blazes

By: Alixel Cabrera – April 12, 20256:00 am The Silver King Fire burns near homes in Piute County on Sunday, July 7, 2024. (Photo courtesy of...
Utah News Dispatch8 months ago

Sen. Mike Lee proposes a public union bill similar to the law passed by Utah this year

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 11, 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 Dispatch8 months ago

Can the churches justifiably step into the secular political realm to help guide the nation?

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey – April 11, 20256:00 am The Christian church was originally designed to be one of the important civic institutions of the nation,...
Utah News Dispatch8 months ago

A fifth of Americans are on Medicaid. Some of them have no idea.

By: Anna Claire Vollers – April 11, 20256:00 am An emergency room nurse tends to a patient at a Houston hospital. Experts worry that Medicaid’s complexity...
Utah News Dispatch8 months ago

Utah men charged in deadly DRC coup attempt; charges detail training, recruitment in Utah

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 11, 20256:00 am The Orrin G. Hatch United States Courthouse is pictured in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 9, 2025....
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Dozens of international University of Utah students had visas revoked

By: Alixel Cabrera – April 10, 20256:00 am President’s Circle on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City is pictured on Monday, Jan. 15,...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy – April 10, 20256:00 am Trump administration “border czar” Tom Homan giving the keynote address at the Border Security Expo at the Phoenix...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Colorado officials warn of ‘community transmission’ risk after third confirmed measles case

By: Chase Woodruff – April 10, 20256:00 am Colorado has not had three measles cases confirmed in the same calendar year in at least 12 years,...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

‘Sign us up’: Utah should run its own federal programs, House speaker told Trump officials

By: Katie McKellar – April 10, 20256:00 am U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. (left) and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin (right)...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Trump’s order to turbocharge coal is built on ‘false narrative,’ clean energy advocates warn

By: Alixel Cabrera – April 9, 20256:00 am A Union Pacific train transports coal through Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah County on Wednesday, July 31, 2024....
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Utah to receive millions through another opioid settlement

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 9, 20256:00 am Utah Attorney General Derek Brown talks to reporters during his first press conference at the Utah State Capitol...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

If you love Utah’s public lands, it’s time to pay attention

By: Franque Bains – April 9, 20256:00 am Signage welcomes visitors to Bureau of Land Management land near Cedar City on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. Like...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Transportation secretary: Utah, feds must invest in transit to support growth, prepare for Olympics

By: McKenzie Romero – April 9, 20256:00 am U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy rides on a FrontRunner train with U.S. Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, in...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

RFK Jr. ‘proud’ of Utah’s ban on fluoride in drinking water, hopes other states will follow

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 8, 20256:00 am U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. speaks to reporters during an event at the University...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love’s life, voice remembered in public funeral

By: Alixel Cabrera – April 8, 20256:00 am Former Utah Rep. Mia Love’s family members carry her casket outside the Institute of Religion at the University...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Uranium transport through Native Nation sparks concerns in New Mexico

By: Patrick Lohmann – April 8, 20256:00 am Orange roadside markers are staked along the six-mile gravel road leading from the Pinyon Plain uranium mine, indicating...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

What Utah lawmakers did — and didn’t — do for housing in 2025

By: Katie McKellar – April 8, 20256:00 am A mix of housing including townhomes, apartments and single family homes in North Salt Lake are pictured on...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Hundreds come to honor Mia Love ahead of funeral

By: Marco Lozzi – April 8, 20256:00 am Two state troopers stand by the casket of Rep. Mia Love in the Utah State Capitol on Sunday,...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

USDA cuts hit small farms as Trump showers billions on big farms

By: Kevin Hardy – April 7, 20256:00 am Shae, left, and Anna Pesek pose with calves on their Over the Moon farm in Iowa. The farm...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

New Mexico milk tests for bird flu reveal scientific mystery

By: Danielle Prokop – April 5, 20255:08 pm Quality control expert inspecting milk in the laboratory. (Getty Images) Veterinary experts nationwide have a variety of hypotheses...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Report: Law enforcement saw thousands of cases of child abuse in 2024

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 5, 20255:08 pm Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill speaks to reporters during a news conference in Salt Lake City...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Cox applauds bills taking aim at ‘destructive’ apps and cellphones

By: Alixel Cabrera – April 5, 20255:08 pm Gov. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson at a ceremonial signing event on tech safety bills at...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Voltaire’s take on the ‘Utah Way’

By: Brian Moench – April 5, 20255:07 pm Darci Stone holds a sign during the Stand Up For Science protest at the Utah State Capitol on...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Calling recent changes ‘unsustainable,’ Cox orders task force to review criminal justice policy

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 5, 20255:07 pm Gov. Spencer Cox speaks to reporters during the last night of the legislative session at the Utah State...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Lawmakers passed dozens of bills that add, increase, or enhance criminal penalties. Here’s a list.

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 5, 20255:07 pm The Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Utah school board won’t sign anti-DEI resolution, letter pushing to end U.S. Education Department

By: Alixel Cabrera – April 5, 20255:07 pm Utah State Board of Education discuss an anti-DEI resolution on April 3, 2025 (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch) A...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

RFK Jr. coming to Utah on Monday to talk fluoride, ‘MAHA’ bills

By: Katie McKellar – April 5, 20255:07 pm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump at...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

Dozens of Utah lawmakers call on Congress to resume payments to downwinders

By: Kyle Dunphey – April 5, 20255:07 pm Utah Supreme Court Justice Matthew Durrant speaks to a joint session of the House and Senate at the...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

More than 5M could lose Medicaid coverage if feds impose work requirements

By: Shalina Chatlani – April 5, 20255:07 pm Workers fill food orders at a restaurant in San Rafael, Calif. Republicans looking to cut federal spending on...
Utah News Dispatch9 months ago

An ‘unprecedented’ merger of 2 centrist parties: United Utah Party looks to join Forward Party

By: Katie McKellar – April 5, 20255:07 pm Twenty candidates running for office in Utah as either unaffiliated independents, or members of the Utah Forward or...

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