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Thousands of Utah Democrats will gather in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday to select nominees for the state's congressional races, including a U.S. House contest that is predicted to be Utah's sole competitive race for federal office. Two-term Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams is expected to receive the nomination to face off against GOP Rep. Mia Love in what may be Utah Democrats' best chance to send one of their own to Congress.
In this April 10, 2017, file photo, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, right, listens during a committee hearing in Salt Lake City. Democrats in deep-red Utah are looking to McAdams to flip one of the state's four Republican-controlled congressional districts and help take control of the U.S. House.
Utah Democrats are trying to capitalize on the chaos from last week's GOP state convention by promising their delegates won't spend hours haggling over party issues when they meet Saturday. "We're going to have as much good, positive energy there as we can," Utah Democratic Party Chairwoman Daisy Thomas said of the Democratic state convention, set to start 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Salt Palace.
Mitt Romney seemed to be on a smooth path to Utah's U.S. Senate seat, with the backing of President Donald Trump, the blessing of retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R, and a popularity unique to the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Delegates at the GOP's state convention denied Romney their nomination as Mike Kennedy, a three-term state representative who entered the race just weeks earlier, edged out the establishment favorite with 50.88 percent of the vote to 49.12 percent.
A Utah man will serve five years and three months in federal prison after he robbed three banks in three states last fall, officials said. Gregory Jerome Brown, of Bountiful, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
President Donald Trump is trying to put in place the policies that got him elected - it's creating backlash among supporters. A woman is suing the LDS Church, alleging that the then-MTC president raped her.
Mitt Romney is back in campaign mode and reminding Utahns why he lost the last time he ran for something. On Monday Romney spoke to the Utah County Republican Women and reminded Utahns that his views on immigration are starkly more conservative than even the conservatives in Utah County.
Utah Hispanic lawmakers condemned the decision by President Donald Trump's administration to include a question about U.S. citizenship status on the 2020 census. House Minority Assistant Whip Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City; Reps.
Last week's spending bill includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years. The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies end a practice of raiding nonfire-related accounts to pay for wildfire costs, which approached $3 billion last year.
The Salt Lake Tribune Volunteer Damon Harris shows users how to use naloxone, a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent overdose by opioids such as heroin, as he helps members of the Utah Harm Reduction Coalition as they exchange needles on 500 west between 200 south and 300 south in Salt Lake City, Thursday July 27, 2017. Users are able to exchange used needles and also receive naloxone during the exchange.
The sun rises Aug. 23 over the Valley of the Gods, at that time a part of the Bears Ears National Monument, near Blanding, Utah. Interior Department emails obtained by The New York Times in a lawsuit indicate that oil exploration was the central factor in the decision to scale back the monument.
The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Republican Party Central Committee members wait to speak during the committee's meeting at the Park City Library Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. To the annoyance of most of the state's Republicans, a minority group of purist bullies on the party's state central committee have once again met to embarrass themselves and the party at large.
President Donald Trump on Monday night threw his full support behind Mitt Romney's bid to be the next U.S. senator from Utah , writing on Twitter that he would be a "worthy successor" to retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. The endorsement is significant because Trump had previously encouraged Hatch to seek another term, and Romney had been among the most vocal Republican critics of Trump's presidential aspirations, once calling him "a phony" and "a fraud."
A simple solution to the fight against filtering movies would be to update the Family Movie Act of 2005 to clarify that it covers streaming. In the course of his long career, Sen. Orrin Hatch has often gone to bat for Utah's families.
Former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is running for a Utah Senate seat, officially launching his political comeback attempt Friday by praising his adopted home state as a model for an acrimonious national government in Washington. Having been one of the Republican Party's fiercest internal critics of President Donald Trump, Romney didn't mention the administration or Trump himself in a campaign announcement posted online.
Mitt Romney is preparing to announce a bid for Utah's Senate seat held by retiring Orrin Hatch, a position some hope the 2012 GOP presidential nominee will use to continue his biting criticism of President Donald Trump. Romney, who once called Trump "a phony" who was unfit for office, is not expected to address the president in an announcement video he has prepared for release online, according to people with direct knowledge of his plans.
Tribune file photo) Rep. Norm Thurston, R-Provo , in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Salt Lake City, Feb. 9, 2018. The Utah House narrowly approved a bill that could lead to prescription drugs flowing into the state from Canada under a program the bill's sponsor hopes would help lower the cost of drugs.
A bill that would create a new legislative entity to oversee state and local governments was revived Monday after several GOP lawmakers changed their votes. HB175 faltered in a House committee earlier this month as a result of "healthy tension" between the branches of government, the bill's sponsor Rep. Keven Stratton, R-Orem, said at the time.
Red tape, bureaucratic hurdles and arbitrary roadblocks are pervasive in Washington, D.C. These obstacles not only result in irritation and inconvenience, but also have the capacity to cause great harm to the health and happiness of those suffering from painful disorders and diseases. Barriers to medical-grade marijuana research may be resulting in the preventable and unnecessary pain of countless Americans.