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Top Utah lawmakers recommend $24 billion budget. Here’s what’s in it.

The fiscal year 2023 budget makes big investments in education, infrastructure, and water preservation.

The brine shrimp is now Utah’s official state crustacean. This is one of many things the Legislature took on in its second-to-the-last week of general session.

Week 6 Legislative Recap: Election security, education funding and brine shrimp

The legislative session is in its final stretch, with just one week left. This is the time when lawmakers vote on a ton of the session's most important and most controversial bills.

Long line of visitors waiting at Zion National Park.

Transient room tax revenue ‘exploded’ in southwest Utah last year

A bill in the Utah Legislature would give some heavily-visited counties more flexibility on how and when to use transient room tax revenue.

Week 5: What would it take to solve Utah’s housing crisis?

The housing market in Utah? Brutal. This week we find out what kind of money is on the table to help solve the problem.

Utah lawmakers advance ‘school voucher’ bill

Bill sponsor Rep. Candice Pierucci, R-Herriman, said the goal is to give parents more options and anticipates most of the funding going to home school and “microschool” expenses.