WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said the odds congressional negotiators will craft a budget deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are “less than 50-50.” As hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers prepared to return to work, Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he doesn’t think the negotiators will strike […]
The Utah Legislature's 2019 session will open Monday with new faces in several leadership roles.
Taxes, education and Medicaid expansion are expected to be among the big issues this year.
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By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA and PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press
Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste.
The number of confirmed measles cases near Portland grew to 31 on Friday — an outbreak boosted by lower-than-normal vaccination rates in what has been called an anti-vaccination U.S. "hot spot."
142 new patients are waking up in bigger brighter rooms at the Utah Valley Hospital. The new Pedersen Patient Tower replaces the old patient tower at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo that was built back in the 1970s and is scheduled to be demolished
Former congressional candidate and city councilwoman Jenny Wilson will be finishing first term congressman Ben McAdams' term as Salt Lake County Mayor.
ST. GEORGE – A new stake center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was destroyed by a fire on Saturday. The building is considered a total loss. Police are investigating the fire as a crime. (Credit: Saint George East Stake) No persons are believed to have been injured by the Saturday fire. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell was finding his teammates in all sorts of ways. One of his career-high 11 assists looked as if it belonged on the diamond instead of the court. “I got back to my old ways,” said Mitchell, who pitched and played shortstop in high school. “It was just making […]
Two men who accuse Michael Jackson of molesting them as boys walked onstage to a standing ovation following the festival’s only screening of “Leaving Neverland,” a documentary about their stories.
The NBA announced Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favors and the Denver Nuggets' Mason Plumlee were fined for their altercation in the first quarter of Wednesday's game.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Yielding to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Friday reached a short-term deal to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations continue over the president’s demands for money to build his long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump announced the agreement to break the 35-day […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will begin a three-year renovation of the historic St. George Temple beginning in November of this year.
Senator Mike Lee and five more Republican Senators introduced the Silencers Helping Us Save Hearing Act to eliminate all federal regulations of suppressors.
A Utah Congressman has joined other Democrats in offering President Trump a deal-- end the partial government shutdown, then we'll vote on a border wall.
Democrat Ben McAdams signed a letter calling for leadership in both parties to vote
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is clarifying its position on a hate crimes law in Utah and says it will not oppose legislation this year.
A splintered Senate voted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 35-day partial government shutdown, but the twin setbacks prompted a burst of bipartisan talks aimed at temporarily halting the longest-ever closure of federal agencies and the damage it's inflicting around the country.
