A Salt Lake City suburb sued the Utah Department of Health, claiming the state’s newly amended administrative rules endanger patients by allowing medically untrained dispatchers to decide what type of transport patients need.
Read moreMitt Romney was forced into a Republican primary in his bid for U.S. Senate in Utah after losing a nomination battle Saturday at the state’s far-right-leaning GOP convention.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit on Tuesday upheld a disputed new provision of Utah election law that allows an alternative method for candidates to get on the ballot.
Read moreFormer GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will announce Thursday that he’s running for the Utah Senate seat held by retiring Orrin Hatch, three people with direct knowledge of the plan confirmed Wednesday.
Read moreInterior Secretary Ryan Zinke pushed back against accusations that he reduced two national monuments in Utah to pave the way for mining and oil and gas companies during an outdoor exposition in Salt Lake City on Friday.
Read moreUtah State Prison officials did not violate the constitutional rights of prisoners by dropping tear gas that vented into the cellblock, a 10th Circuit panel ruled Friday.
Read moreA lawyer contracted to handle indigent defense appeals in Weber County, Utah, claims in a federal complaint he was fired after a daily newspaper quoted him as criticizing the county and state for refusing to pay adequately to defend people from death sentences.
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and House Republicans have escalated their feud with Patagonia after the outdoor retailer told Americans that President Donald Trump “stole your land” in his move to shrink two sprawling Utah national monuments.
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President Donald Trump’s decision to drastically reduce and break up a national monument in Utah wasn’t the only blow Native American tribes say they were dealt last week.
Read moreIn a signing ceremony at the Utah statehouse on Monday, President Donald Trump ordered the drastic reduction of two Utah national monuments, Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
Read moreEnvironmentalists took to the Utah state capitol en masse Saturday, rallying against President Donald Trump’s enormous slashes to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
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A fatal carjacking attempt near the University of Utah late Monday left one student dead and touched off a campus-wide lockdown as hundreds of police officers swarmed buildings and nearby foothills and canyons in search of the suspected gunman.
Read morePresident Donald Trump told a Utah senator that he will shrink two national monuments in the state during a phone call Friday morning.
Read moreFormer Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Russia, says Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election led directly to the low level of trust between the two former Cold War foes.
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Heavy winter snow and a very wet spring in the Western U.S. generated predictions the 2017 wildfire season would be tame. But it’s shaping up to be one of the worst in U.S. history in land burned.
Read moreA conservative county mayor moved a step closer to seizing the seat of retired U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, after winning a Utah Republican primary dogged by negative campaigning.
Read moreThe Republican race to fill a Utah congressional seat abandoned by Jason Chaffetz is pitting the party establishment, which is backing a popular mayor with a Democratic past, against further-right conservatives who are divided between two candidates with support from national GOP heavy-hitters.
Read moreThe race for the seat in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District just got a bit more crowded, after a federal judge ordered the addition of Jim Bennett of the recently formed United Utah Party to the November ballot to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who stepped down in June.
Read moreA Byzantine law removing disabled adults’ right to counsel in guardianship proceedings targets the poorest people of Utah, the ACLU says in a federal lawsuit against the state.
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