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Nate Blouin has served in the Utah Senate since 2023 and said he’s “prepared to speak up” on the issues that matter most to the voters in Utah’s new District 1. He and political newcomer Luis Villarreal entered the race over the weekend.

Kitchen is a local business owner and previously a member of the Salt Lake City Council, Utah Senate and part of the Biden administration from 2023-2025.

After months of speculation, Ben McAdams has formally announced his candidacy for Congress. He is the last Democrat to represent Utah in Washington, D.C., where he served the 4th District till 2021.

Riebe has served in the Utah Senate since 2019 and previously ran for Congress in 2023 in a special election to replace retiring Republican Rep. Chris Stewart.

The vote by House Republicans helps clear the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to sharply expand mining and drilling on public lands. The Republican-majority Senate must still approve the House action.

This closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting threatens the resilience of the nation's emergency alert systems. Congress had authorized $136 million for the Next Generation Warning System grant program to help underserved communities improve warning systems.

On July 16, 1945, the U.S. detonated the first nuclear bomb. In the years that followed, other tests led to a wave of health problems in Utah and across the West. Now, advocates are celebrating the expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Real people, not waste or fraud, would be cut from health insurance in Utah, said former Republican state Rep. Marsha Judkins.

After the Department of Government Efficiency abruptly canceled nearly $1 million in funding for Utah Humanities, smaller organizations are feeling the ripple effects.

The Senate parliamentarian ruled out Lee's proposal to sell federal land for housing and infrastructure from the Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill. The Senate is pushing hard to pass the "big beautiful bill" by July 4.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says the approach is problematic while Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon voiced qualified support for plans to tap federal land for development.

Colleagues have grown accustomed to Lee’s online persona, mostly brushing it off. That is, until this past week, after his posts about the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband incensed fellow senators.