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Utah becomes first state to pass legislation requiring app store age verification

March 15, 2025 Hannah Schoenbaum

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah last Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors to download apps to their devices. The bill […]

Jarvis, Aho lead Hurricanes into 4 Nations break with 7-3 win

February 8, 2025 Cory Lavalette

RALEIGH — The Hurricanes needed some good energy going into the 4 Nations Face-Off Tournament. They got plenty of it Saturday against the visiting Utah Hockey Club. Seth Jarvis had a power play goal, a […]

What to watch in primaries in Colorado, Illinois, elsewhere

June 27, 2022 Steve Peoples, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Seven states are set to host primary elections Tuesday as the nation comes to terms with last week’s stunning Supreme Court ruling saying there is no constitutional right to an abortion. This […]

Race is on to save the Great Salt Lake: Will it be enough?

February 6, 2022 Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — The largest natural lake west of the Mississippi is shrinking past its lowest levels in recorded history, raising fears about toxic dust, ecological collapse and economic consequences. But the Great Salt […]

Water levels at Great Salt Lake drop to historic low

July 26, 2021 Matt Mercer

SALT LAKE CITY — The water levels at the Great Salt Lake have hit a historic low, a grim milestone for the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River that comes as a megadrought […]

Paris Hilton returns to Utah for ceremonial bill signing

April 8, 2021 The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Paris Hilton returned to Salt Lake City Tuesday for a ceremonial bill signing for a law that regulates treatment centers for troubled teens in Utah. The legislation for facilities that treat […]

Paris Hilton protest calls for closure of Utah school

October 12, 2020 Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

PROVO, Utah — Paris Hilton has been speaking out about abuse she said she suffered at a boarding school in Utah, and on Friday she took her push nearly to the school’s front doors. Hilton […]

6 Western states blast Utah plan to tap Colorado River water

September 9, 2020 Sam Metz, Associated Press

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Six states in the U.S. West that rely on the Colorado River to sustain cities and farms rebuked a plan to build an underground pipeline that would transport billions of gallons […]

Utah GOP governor’s race still tight between Cox, Huntsman

July 3, 2020 Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — In the Republican race for the first open Utah governor’s seat in more than a decade, well-known former U.S. ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. on Wednesday was running narrowly behind […]

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U.S. states build stockpiles of malaria drug touted by Trump

April 25, 2020 Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — State and local governments across the United States have obtained more than 30 million doses of a malaria drug touted by President Trump to treat patients with the coronavirus, despite warnings […]