Utah lawmakers have more money to spend during their 2026 legislative session than they had originally projected, according to new revenue estimates. “Surprise, surprise, folks,” Senate Budget Chair Jerry Stevenson said on the Senate floor Friday. He announced that legislative fiscal ...
For two years now, animal advocates have urged Utah lawmakers to do something to help cats and dogs saved from abusive situations only to spend months or years stuck in animal shelters as their owners’ criminal cases wind slowly through the courts, with taxpayers footing the bill. They may ...
Occurring five years after World War II ended and the decade before the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 is considered by many to be “the forgotten war.” It’s a phrase all too familiar to American Legion Provo Post 13 member Wilbur “Bill” ...
The rise of community mental health services during the 20th century stabilized the number of patients at state mental health hospitals, contributing to the deinstitutionalization of these facilities across the nation. In recent years, though, Utah State Hospital Superintendent Dallas ...
As a blizzard descended on Salt Lake City on Wednesday, a federal three-judge panel spent hours grilling attorneys on opposing sides of a new redistricting lawsuit seeking to throw out a state judge’s earlier decisions that voided Utah’s 2021 congressional map and ordered a remedial map ...
A recent study found a high correlation between wearing hearing aids and reducing dementia risks, and a local audiologist says she’s seen the connection in her own work. The study, published in JAMA Neurology last year, found that hearing-aid wearers younger than 70 reduce their dementia ...
