Utah News Dispatch

President Donald Trump this week vowed to “lead a movement to get rid of” voting by mail ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Utah’s homelessness rate is still below national average – but the state’s annual report showed a ‘big jump.’ The ‘silver lining’ is more people are accessing shelter than in the past, state homeless coordinator says

State officials have received thousands of complaints related to residential construction fraud in the last several years, a problem the Utah Department of Commerce says has cost residents a combined $32 million.

The Utah Public Service Commission called the tone of Rocky Mountain Power’s request “hyperbolic, intemperate and occasionally disrespectful.”

Studies indicate a different fee structure could rake in tens of millions of additional revenue for national parks facing maintenance backlogs and budget cuts.

Federal funding for several public school programs was scheduled to come by the first of the month. But instead of money, states received a notice saying that the $6.8 billion allocated for different K-12 programs were on hold and under review.

The federal government’s program that gives payments to people sickened by nuclear weapons testing is one step closer to being reauthorized and expanded.

The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture recently announced it would try to roll back the “roadless rule,” a decades-old policy that prevents road construction and logging on nearly 4 million acres of national forest in Utah.

According to the Utah Women & Leadership Project, the number has fluctuated since the initiative started measuring it.

Arturo Gamboa, a 24-year-old man who was arrested after a chaotic shooting at the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, has been released from jail.