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Records obtained by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project indicate one of the most prolific school districts for banning books in the state may have been doing so in violation of state law.
The race for Utah's 3rd Congressional district pits a Republican incumbent who says she’s a problem-solver against a GOP challenger pitching himself as a disrupter.
Two former court clerks in Utah were arrested and called “self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes,” accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE after a court appearance.
We asked the Department of Homeland Security and a private manufacturing company about dozens of semitrailers seen at the ICE warehouse in Salt Lake City. One offered more insight than the other.
Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County are suing to block an ICE detention center on the city's west side, saying federal agencies cut them out of most of the planning.
The southern Utah doctor hadn’t expected to treat measles in his career, but there he was, examining a newborn exposed to the virus in the womb. The hospital had alerted Dowse to the case before delivery, and he’d braced himself for the worst.
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Now that ballots are starting to hit mailboxes for Utah's 1st Congressional District Democratic primary, voters will address the looming question — can Ben McAdams, the last Utah Democrat to serve in Congress, be beat?
As incumbent Blake Moore and challenger Karianne Lisonbee make their final appeals to voters with less than two weeks to go until the primary, Utah News Dispatch interviewed both candidates to discuss the biggest issues at play in their race.
Taking cues from opponents of a planned immigration detention center near Hagerstown, Maryland, a newly formed advocacy group in Utah is preparing a lawsuit in hopes of stopping a similar project in Salt Lake City.
Two former court clerks in Utah were charged for helping undocumented immigrants evade ICE, according to court documents.
Utah Trust Lands Administration officials are poised to sell about 50,000 acres of the Book Cliffs area in Grand County — a major swath of a popular hunting and fishing area — to another state agency, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, for nearly $30 million. #utpol
