Utah Government News

Jasmine Alfaro gets dinner outside of the Central Park Community Center in South Salt Lake on Friday, July 18, 2014.

Happy Monday. Does this get your attention: "Can we chat real quick?" or perhaps, "THIS CAN'T WAIT."

Amid the swerving and near misses of daily driving, the conventional view among Utahns is that their fellow motorists here are awful.

It's a place where teachers are required to have master's degrees, students spend less time in school than in the U.S., and early childhood education programs are available to all kids.

A life-and-death problem that faces many Utahns turns out to be even worse than we thought , which apparently means that some of our elected officials are even less willing to face it.

Utah is tied for the second lowest unemployment rate in the nation, as the state's jobless rate dropped to 3.5 percent.

The U.S. Supreme Court put recognition of same-sex marriages performed in Utah on hold until the outcome of the state's appeal of a lower court ruling.

Take a state, like Utah, controlled by an ultra-conservative religion like the LDS Church.

Health officials in Utah are very concerned about what kids might be seeing on television.

Utah asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to issue an emergency order that would prevent the state from recognizing the marriages of thousands of gay and lesbian Utahns, because the state believes it will ultimately prevail in its fight to revive a ban on such unions.

This suggests that Utahns' disapproval goes beyond the job Obama is doing to the person himself.

The National Weather Service forecast highs along the Wasatch Front in the upper-80s both Wednesday and Thursday, a break from triple-digit temperatures earlier in the week.

Eric Eliason, a Brigham Young University professor, is working on a book about the folklore behind some of Utah's more unique foods.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Weston Clark and his son Xander, 4, help to deliver signed petitions outside of the Governor's Mansion in Salt Lake City Wednesday July 9, 2014.

Now is the time for Utah to recognize the environmental benefits of using advanced coal-burning technologies and nuclear power to generate electricity.

The American people have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of the United States Congress over the past several years.

The tax credits granted Thursday by the Governor's Office of Economic Development board are based on production companies spending defined amounts of money in the state and hiring a certain percentage of cast and crew locally.

The Governor's Office of Economic Development has signed an incentive agreement with Consumer United which approves up to a maximum tax credit of $1,053,751 in the form of a post-performance Economic Development Tax Increment Finance incentive, which is 20 percent of the new state taxes Consumer United will pay over the seven-year life of the ... (more)

As per legislative mandate, the Governor's Office of Economic Development asked Utahns what they think about Daylight Saving Time.

There was a palpable frustration among the diverse group of Utahns who came together Wednesday for a roundtable discussion on the need for immigration reform.