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What to expect from Utah's upcoming legislative session

By Lindsey Reese
January 18, 2021 12:00 AM
Utah's legislative body will convene on Jan. 19 to deal with a variety of issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other social and economic changes.
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Metro

Utah senators share opinions on Trump's Supreme Court nominee

By Kaela Cleary
October 02, 2020 12:00 AM
Utah's senators have both released statements regarding Amy Coney Barrett, the conservative Catholic woman President Trump nominated on Saturday to be the Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Nation

New law gives greater protection to sexual assault victims

By Diego Calderon
April 02, 2020 12:00 AM
Gov. Gary Herbert has signed into law a bill that clarifies the parameters of consent for sex, giving more control to victims to say “no” during a romantic encounter.
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Capital West News

SB 22: Committee passes bill to fund office on American Indian-Alaska Native health

By Decker Westenburg
February 05, 2020 12:00 AM
A bill directed at funding an office on American Indian-Alaska Native health passed unanimously through the Utah Senate's Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee Feb. 4.
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Campus

Utah schools in need of funds despite legislative efforts

By Nick Gledhill
September 30, 2019 12:00 AM
Educators across Utah are still in need of money even after S.B. 149, a Utah Senate bill created to provide additional funding for schools, was signed into law.
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Life

Looking through stigmas and finding hope in postpartum depression

By Emily Janeen Ashcraft
June 13, 2019 12:00 AM
Six weeks after her first child was born, Kayla Geddes found herself sitting in her car crying.
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State

Long-time journalist realizes her dream as owner/editor of the Sanpete Messenger

By Courtney Tietjen
April 18, 2019 12:00 AM
Since the day she could write, Suzanne Dean was born to be a journalist. She can recall the summer of her sixth and seventh grade years reading books about journalism. She fell so in love with journalism that she started her own newspaper growing up in the Sugarhouse/Salt Lake City area.
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State

Tooele

By Sahalie Donaldson
April 17, 2019 12:00 AM
Tooele Transcript Bulletin Associate Publisher Clayton Dunn gives a tour of the paper's printing press. (Sahalie Donaldson)
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State

Magna

By Sahalie Donaldson
April 17, 2019 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: This city profile is part of a larger project in which Daily Universe reporters traveled across Utah and Wyoming to investigate the state of local newspapers.
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State

Richfield

By Sadie Anderson
April 17, 2019 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: This city profile is part of a larger project in which Daily Universe reporters traveled across Utah and Wyoming to investigate the state of local newspapers.
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State

Price

By Auburn Wilcox
April 17, 2019 12:00 AM
The building of the Sun Advocate newspaper is for sale. The Sun Advocate had been published in in Price since 1891. (Abigail Keenan)
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State

Kemmerer

By Mariana Monteiro
April 17, 2019 12:00 AM
The Kemmerer Gazette (Mariana Monteiro)
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State

Highland and Alpine

By Erica West
April 17, 2019 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: This city profile is part of a larger project in which Daily Universe reporters traveled across Utah and Wyoming to investigate the state of local newspapers.
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State

Moab

By Sarah Matthews
April 16, 2019 12:00 AM
The most widely-accepted the name Moab comes from a biblical context: Moab is referenced as a dry, mountainous terrain east of the Dead Sea and southeast of Jerusalem. (Abigail Keenan)
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Uncategorized

Park City

By Courtney Tietjen
April 16, 2019 12:00 AM
This Nov. 23, 2013, file photo, shows Park City from a trail at the Park City Mountain Resort, in Park City, Utah. (Associated Press)
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State

Evanston

By Jenna Alton
April 16, 2019 12:00 AM
Editor's note: This city profile is part of a larger project in which Daily Universe reporters traveled across Utah and Wyoming to investigate the state of local newspapers.
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State

Boston transplant loves reporting for the Kemmerer Gazette

By Mariana Monteiro
April 11, 2019 12:00 AM
Michelle Tibbetts, a Boston transplant and now journalist for The Kemmerer Gazette, enjoys the chance to learn more about her fellow residents in the small Wyoming town. (Mariana Monteiro)
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Breaking News

Senator introduces bill that would subject BYU Police to state open record laws

By Camilla Owens
February 26, 2019 12:00 AM
Sen. Curt S. Bramble, R-Provo, introduced a bill that would require BYU Police to release its records under the state’s open records law.
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