Utah Valley University has initiated an independent review with a third-party organization to enhance safety practices at universities in the state after the shooting of Charlie Kirk on the school's campus.

“This development proves we can create high-quality affordable housing, even in Utah's most expensive markets,” says Clark Ivory, CEO of Utah's largest home builder, Ivory Homes. #utpol

President Donald Trump told a packed stadium of mourners, “America loved Charlie Kirk.” Interspersed in his remarks, the president aimed insults at what he called “radical left lunatics,” promoted his anti-crime campaign and teased an announcement about autism. Read more from @statesnewsroom.com

After Utah's public universities were told to cut course budgets by 10%, a legislative panel deferred USU's reinvestment plans, with House Speaker Mike Schultz asking for less focus on nursing and more on natural resource programs. #utpol #uted

The U.S. House passed a resolution Friday honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk and condemning his assassination. #utpol

The University of Utah listed 13 National Institutes of Health research projects in limbo amid a federal crackdown on DEI initiatives. With $8.4 million in limbo, researchers also worry about their projects for years to come. #utpol #uted

Just days after federal data revealed average reading, math and science scores dropped among certain grades since before the coronavirus pandemic, a U.S. Senate panel picked apart the root causes and methods for students’ academic improvement. Read more from @statesnewsroom.com

To draw a new, court-ordered congressional map, Utah’s legislative leaders have picked 10 lawmakers — eight Republicans and two Democrats from the House and Senate — to form a new legislative redistricting committee. #utpol #utleg Here's how to participate in the public process:

As the vision for a new, 1,300-bed homeless “campus” takes shape, top homeless services leaders propose adding hundreds more beds to expand the state’s capacity for involuntary civil commitment and addiction treatment. One advocate criticized the idea as incarceration rather than shelter. #utpol

Twenty-two youth are suing the Trump administration over the president’s executive orders aimed at supporting the fossil fuel industry, all while curbing renewable energy and suppressing climate science. Read more from @dailymontanan.com

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox hopes nuclear energy developments help ease rural communities' economic woes, bringing more jobs and opportunities. But recruiting for nuclear plants isn't an easy task.

U.S. House Republican leaders released a seven-week stopgap government funding bill Tuesday that’s intended to avoid a shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. But GOP leaders opted not to negotiate the legislation with Democrats. Read more from @statesnewsroom.com

If PacifiCorp wants to build its preferred clean energy portfolio and save ratepayers' money, it needs to push the accelerator, advocates say in a Public Service Commission filing.

Charges are now filed against Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man accused of shooting and killing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk during a crowded outdoor speaking event, including a count of aggravated murder. Prosecutors announced they will seek the death penalty.

With no active cases of New World screwworm, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to prevent its spread from Central America, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said during an Oklahoma stop.

The Utah Supreme Court has denied the Legislature’s petition to block a district court judge’s decision that tossed out the state’s 2021 congressional boundaries and ordered a process to draw a new one. #utpol

“This is our moment,” Utah Gov. Cox says to students in message after the shooting of Charlie Kirk. #utpol “The question is, do we escalate? Or do we walk down the better path? My prayer is that you will choose humanity, connection and love. And I believe with all my heart that you will.”

After the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA speaking event at Utah Valley University, a coalition of Utah organizations of different political affiliations appeared side by side to launch Turn Toward Each Other, a toolkit to reduce polarization. #utpol

The Colorado River once only powered farms and industry. Today, it powers communities whose economies depend on recreational activities such as rafting, tubing and fishing — but the effects of low flows are rippling out. Read more from @greatsaltlakenews.bsky.social and @stgeorgenews.bsky.social

Utah businesses and nonprofits impacted by the drought are now able to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. utahnewsdispatch.com/briefs/droug...

Law enforcement arrested Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Washington County resident suspected in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, after a family member reported the young Utahn who had grown increasingly political had suggested he was behind the shooting. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/12/2...

Legislative attorneys are pushing back on a judge’s tight timeline to select a new congressional map before Nov. 10. The plaintiffs in the case, however, argue that the Legislature is claiming it now needs to be rescued “from an ‘emergency’ that is self-created at best and wholly illusory at worst.”

After Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University, Gov. Spencer Cox — who has devoted a large part of his political career trying to encourage civil discourse in an increasingly politically polarized world — said "our nation is broken." #utpol

The manhunt for Charlie Kirk shooter continues. A rifle was found in a wooded area and is being analyzed, FBI says. #utpol

The search continues for a shooter who shot and killed conservative influencer Charlie Kirk as he spoke at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University. Law enforcement officials had little additional information other than that the person who fired from a rooftop appeared to be wearing dark clothing.

Manufacturing in Utah is “really taking off,” according to the deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, who was in Salt Lake City this week meeting with stakeholders and small business owners to tout some of the impacts of Republicans’ “big, beautiful” tax and spending law.

Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are urging Republican leaders to prioritize the funding of tribal water settlements, even as President Donald Trump is proposing little to no funding to honor the nation’s longstanding treaty obligations. Read more from @sourcenm.com

Utah health officials are warning of a measles exposure at a large cycling event last month where several infections have since been confirmed.

With the 2034 Winter Olympics less than a decade away, Utah donors have committed to giving $200 million for the event with the largest philanthropic campaign ever to support the Olympic and Paralympic games.

Utahns now have a new resource to help resolve homeowners’ association disputes (when they deal with state law) through the newly-created Office of the Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman.

The Utah Supreme Court has granted lawmakers’ emergency request for an expedited review as they petition to block a district court judge’s ruling that tossed out the Utah Legislature’s 2021 congressional map. #utpol

Refugees across the country report disproportionate levels of food insecurity. In Utah, many have issues affording food in these four key moments.

President Donald Trump’s aim to shutter the Education Department faces steep hurdles in Congress, where Republicans’ legislative efforts to abolish the agency remain stalled and appropriators have rejected many of his proposed cuts to education spending. Read more from @statesnewsroom.com

Attorneys for both the Utah Legislature and the anti-gerrymandering lawsuit’s plaintiffs have agreed on a set of new deadlines to redraw the state's congressional map. #utpol

While Utah Gov. Spencer Cox disagrees with a judge’s ruling ordering lawmakers to draw new congressional maps, he said the state’s Republican party risks losing trust among voters who feel like they were ignored during the redistricting process. #utpol

5 Calls, a website and app that encourages constituents across the country to make direct contact with their federal elected officials is ready to go local, starting in one of its best-performing states — Utah. #utpol

Nobody from the state gave fifth-generation Idaho rancher Nick Beard a heads up that state officials were considering auctioning off state endowment rangeland his family has leased for grazing since the 1990s. Instead, his wife found out from a Facebook post. Read more from @idahocapitalsun.com

According to Utah code, medical professionals will have at least 60 days to evaluate death row inmate Ralph Menzies now that the Utah Supreme Court has ordered a new competency review before he can be executed, but the attorney general’s office is asking the court to cut that timeline to 30 days.

The company operating some of the most visited pornographic websites in the world, including Pornhub, has agreed to pay Utah $5 million over allegations that it didn’t do enough to remove harmful content, including videos depicting rape, child sexual abuse and secret recordings.

One person has died of a severe form of West Nile virus in Davis County. Health officials are advising residents to avoid mosquito bites. utahnewsdispatch.com/briefs/west-...

Utah has the 4th highest number of Affordable Care Act enrollees. Now, without a federal extension, their premiums are about to increase.

“By granting a stay and proceeding with the 2026 election under the current 2021 Congressional Plan, this Court would be sanctioning the Legislature’s violation of the people’s constitutional right to reform their government,” the judge wrote. #utpol

More than $111.3 million in land investment revenue will be distributed to schools for the 2025-2026 school year — the largest ever yearly distribution in the state program’s history.

BREAKING: After months of tight-lipped searching, state officials have announced the property they’ve zeroed in on for a new 1,300-bed “transformative” homeless campus. #utpol utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/03/u...

Changes to the Jordan River: What started as a scattered trail system through a weak riparian ecosystem, interrupted by tracts of industrial land, is now a 50 mile paved trail that spans much of the Wasatch Front.

Seven names are being considered to fill the open seat on the Utah Supreme Court’s bench when Justice John Pearce retires on Dec.1. #utpol

Only a few members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation survived an 1863 attack that was the deadliest massacre of indigenous people in U.S. history. Today, their descendants are working to reclaim and restore the land — and they hope their work will also help the Great Salt Lake.

Babies and children in the United States are nearly twice as likely to die before reaching adulthood compared with their peers in other wealthy countries, according to a new study. Read more from @stateline.org

“It would be just tremendously unjust to allow an unconstitutional and unlawful map … to govern yet another election cycle when the people passed this in 2018,” the plaintiffs' attorney Mark Gaber said. ” #utpol “Seven years have passed."

Sgt. Lee Sorensen was there for his fellow officers’ rough days, and the births of their children. At his funeral, colleagues and family members described him as a patient voice, and a person many in the Tremonton-Garland community could rely on.