“This kind of money is huge for southern Utah,” said Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy. “It's hard to overstate how high the stakes are.”
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Lawmaker and developer Brad Wilson bought land that would later benefit from its proximity to a major development supported by a $160 million tax incentive.
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Clues as to what assurances the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games will give the IOC may lie in a bill the governor signed in 2023.
Life on earth is for the dogs. There’s too much regulation, too few resources and it’s burning up. Better to pack up and leave for Mars. Or is it? There’s a contingent of people — Elon Musk among them — who are obsessed by the idea of settling on Mars. But the husband-and-wife research team Zach and Kelly Weinersmith say that life on Mars could very well be terrible.
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Kansas’ Republican attorney general argues that Biden overstepped his authority in creating the SAVE Plan, which was made available to borrowers last year and has already canceled loans for 150,000.
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For over 40 years, the Sundance Film Festival has called Park City home. That could change this fall if its contract is not renewed.
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The Iron County School Board retired the name in 2019, but on March 26 the board voted to put the issue on the ballot as soon as possible.
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The Bureau of Land Management will tighten limits on gas flaring on federal lands and require energy companies to improve methods to detect methane leaks that add to greenhouse gas pollution.
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The ugly incident of racism involving the Utah team while they stayed in Idaho has raised questions about how the NCAA selects early-round campus tournament sites, which are not locked in until Selection Sunday while the men's sites — at neutral locations — are chosen years in advance.
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According to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, there were just five reported abortions in the state in 2023. A sharp decline from previous years, that number does not appear to reflect the reality of abortion access in the state since strict abortion bans went into effect.
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Commissioner Amelia Powers-Gardner said working on a three-member commission for such a large county is “very tough.”
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