Utah News Dispatch

Federal funding for several public school programs was scheduled to come by Tuesday. But this week 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.

With concurrent resolution, lawmakers want the message to be clearer: Utah is ready and willing to take on nuclear manufacturing developments.

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Utah and Oklahoma on Wednesday in a case that started over disagreements with the Clean Air Act, and evolved into a debate over where certain lawsuits could be heard.

Police said a member of a peacekeeping team fired shots trying to contain a man pointing a rifle at demonstrators, hitting a man who was marching with the group.

Utah’s SNAP restrictions on soft drinks will take effect Jan. 1, 2026.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who let a first-in-the-nation flag ban become law without his signature, now says the ongoing debate over flags and Salt Lake City leaders’ response is “ridiculous.”