Mike Lee

Utah’s congressional delegation introduced a resolution to roll back the rules that govern the vast monument. Conservation groups worry the move will harm southern Utah’s landscape and protected areas across the West.

Steve Pearce, a former Republican congressman from New Mexico, would next need to clear a vote in the full Senate in the coming weeks to be confirmed.

Steve Pearce, Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, said he would not propose large-scale sales of public lands.

At the “This is the Turning Point Tour” event in Logan, the crowd carried signs to display the late Charlie Kirk’s disagreement with Cox and often booed the governor.

Gov. Spencer Cox told reporters that the president is right to be cautious about mail ballots, but Utah has worked hard to maintain its system.

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.

House GOP leadership said it’s “on all of us” to bring down the temperature following shootings at a protest in Salt Lake City and politically-motivated attacks in Minnesota.

The proposal would make 18.7 million acres of Utah public lands eligible to be sold, including parcels that overlap with popular trails like Mount Ogden, Grandeur Peak and Mount Timpanogos.

Over 2,600 Utah Republican delegates gathered at Utah Valley university to elect new party leadership ahead of the 2026 midterm cycle.

Over 200 volunteers flew to the capitol to help sew quilts together and deliver them to Congress. Mormon Women for Ethical Government and Women Building Peace delivered around 60 quilts.