Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced a "targeted effort" Tuesday to aid President-elect Trump's vow to deport large numbers of immigrants who are in the country illegally. Why it matters: Utah's public safety and corrections departments will coordinate with federal,

Weeks after his write-in campaign for governor fell short, state representative Phil Lyman made it clear he won’t be going anywhere. Lyman told his supporters in a forum at a crowded Chubby’s Cafe in Orem on Friday night that he intends on running for governor again in 2028,

Election officials who access and disclose information about how specific Utah voters cast their ballots would face criminal charges under a draft bill backed by a panel of Utah lawmakers.

According to federal data collected by Syracuse University’s Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse, Utah accounted for 0.02% of deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement between December 2002 and February 2024.

Utah is gearing up to assist the incoming Trump administration’s plan to ramp up deportations, with Gov. Spencer Cox on Tuesday announcing a set of priorities to “identify, incarcerate and deport” undocumented migrants in Utah who have committed crimes.

As he pushed for voters to pay for their own postage for mail-in ballots, the Utah County clerk reportedly checked whether state lawmakers placed stamps on their ballots. Now lawmakers are moving toward making such actions a crime.

A panel of Utah lawmakers have given an initial nod to a draft bill that would criminalize accessing and disclosing certain information about how or when individual voters return their ballots. The Government Operations Interim Committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to endorse the first iteration of the legislation,

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been fined more than $14,000 for pantomiming what the NFL deemed a "violent gesture" during a game last week against the Buffalo Bills.

Acting in an official capacity as the Board of Canvassers, members of the Utah County Commission certified the 2024 election results Tuesday at the county offices in Provo. But the turbulent election cycle — which saw County Commissioner Amelia Powers Gardner calling for County Clerk Aaron Davidson to rescue himself from overseeing the election and had

Utah allows ballots received after Election Day to be counted as long as they're postmarked before the election Only ballots received before the polls close on Election Day would be valid under proposed legislation State lawmakers failed to endorse the proposal, but it may still be introduced at the 2025 Legislature

It was the closest of the 75 House races this cycle, and Koford's win preserves the 61-14 Republican-Democrat split in the 75-member body. Koford's flip of the District 10 seat was countered by Democrat Jake Fitisemanu's win in the District 30 race in Salt Lake County over Republican Fred Cox, which flipped that post from red to blue.