BREAKING: Chief Justice Matthew Durrant announced Friday he will retire from the Utah Supreme Court after 26 years. It means Gov. Cox will have appointed 5 of 7 justices in less than a year, marking an unprecedented revamping of the high court. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Big news about the news: Starting TOMORROW you’ll be able to access the @sltrib free of charge. It will be an invaluable resource for ALL of the community, thanks to the generous donors who made it possible. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

Breaking: An investigation by the SLC attorney determined that, as the Trib reported, council member Eva Lopez Chavez had moved out of her council district and therefore the seat has been vacated. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05...

Breaking: An investigation by the SLC attorney determined that, as the Trib reported, council member Eva Lopez Chavez had moved out of her council district and therefore the seat has been vacated. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05...

Justice Hagen's letter of resignation. In it she says her family and friends don't deserve to have personal details surrounding her divorce subjected to public scrutiny and she cannot remain on the bench "without sacrificing the privacy and well-being of those I care about."

Breaking: Amid an investigation by Republican leaders and a campaign by the Utah GOP to remove her from the bench, Justice Diana Hagen has resigned from the Utah Supreme Court, creating a third vacancy on the bench. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A SLC resident is asking the city attorney to investigate if Council member Eva Lopez Chavez has moved out of District 4. If she has, she automatically forfeita her council seat. Records show she bought a home in District 5 last Sept. She has no comment. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: Liban Mohamed won the support of delegates at the Utah Democratic Party convention in CD1. Three other candidates — Nate Blouin, Ben McAdams and Michael Farrell — gathered signatures to advance to the primary. Eva Lopez Chavez and Luis Villareal are eliminated.

Feels like there could be an upset brewing at the Utah Democratic convention. Based on the audience reaction, Liban Mohamed definitely had the loudest supporters. Nate Blouin went at Ben McAdams pretty hard. Eva Lopez Chavez got a smattering of boos mixed with her applause.

Some news …

Nate Blouin says there are “much bigger forces” behind the unearthing of a slew of decade-old online posts that used demeaning and offensive language. Suggests Ben McAdams may be behind them. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Correction: He needs 45% (not 40%) to survive.

For those following the SLCO Dem convention today, keep an eye on the district attorney contest between Sim Gill and Shawn Robinson. Gill has held the office for 16 years but Robinson piled up endorsements from several of the Dem groups, including the Progressive caucus.

As of this morning, the Prop 4 repeal lost another state senate district. The 19 signature removals left it four short in SD12, meaning it qualified in 24 or the required 26 districts. With about two more weeks left for removals SD9 is the next one that is vulnerable at +255.

Prop 4 fails to make the ballot after 327 more voters remove their signatures in critical Senate District 15. All told, about 1,000 people removed their signatures in SD15 and roughly 9,000 have done so statewide. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Prop 4 repeal update: After two days of SD15 holding steady, there were 34 signature removals today. The margin stands at 68 in the critical tipping-point district (meaning 69 removals and the Prop 4 repeal fails to make the ballot). Deadline is April 23.

Today's update: The Prop 4 repeal lost another 118 signatures in SD15, dropping the margin to 114 withdrawals that opponents need to get to keep the gerrymandering repeal off the ballot. They have until April 23 to get them.

Despite a rushed change by the Lege making it harder to remove signatures, the margin for the Prop 4 repeal continues to narrow. It hinges on Senate District 15, where the margin has gone from 658 signatures to 232 signatures in the past week. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Rep. Nelson Abbott says House leaders killed his rural jobs bill because he objected to $10 million in taxpayer money going to a downtown SLC trail. I hear this kind of story a lot, but most won’t talk about it publicly. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

UPDATE: The Davis County Clerk says they've finished counting packets and there are enough signatures to put SD7 over the threshold by 48 — AS OF NOW. There are still removals to be processed and whatever changes come from the secondary review of those rejected signatures.

WILDEST finish to Prop 4 repeal! GOP-led repeal group has met the statewide mark & qualified in 25 of 26 required Senate districts. But they're 8 sigs shy in SD7. Davis clerk says he has THREE packets left and "a pretty good bunch" of removal forms. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: DOJ sued LG Henderson & 5 other states, demanding they turn over complete voter registration database, including voters' private data. Henderson: No state or federal law lets "DOJ collect private information on law-abiding American citizens,” www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

The effort to repeal Prop 4's ban on gerrymandering has crossed the statewide threshold and now has close to 150k signatures. They still need to meet the targets in six more state senate districts, but they made significant progress there, as well. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: The effort to repeal Prop 4 now has 149,781 signatures, passing the statewide threshold. Still needs to get to the mark in senate districts. More analysis after I get my coffee.

So close! The push to repeal Prop 4 is now just 86 signatures from the statewide goal after the biggest day of verification yet. They have 140,662. They also have met the threshold in 14 senate districts and need 12 more. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Morning signature update: Prop 4 repeal now has 129,946 verified signatures and needs just 10,802 to hit the statewide mark. The repeal effort has also met its goal in nine senate districts. They need 17 more. About 3,400 people have removed their names. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Morning Update: As of Monday, Prop 4 repeal is on track to get to the 140,748 signatures needed statewide. They now have 123,449. But they still only have six of the 26 senate districts needed (close in several others). 2,741 have withdrawn signatures. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Breaking: Utah Supreme Court rejected the Legislatures appeal in the redistricting case.

Morning update on Prop 4 signatures: Repeal effort now has 107,793 of the 140,748 needed, just over 3/4. They secured a 4th senate district, 22 more to go. There have been 1,925 removals. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

I've been negligent, but here is the 2026 Graffy, showing how much taffy I have consumed so far this session. Consumption is down significantly and my teeth are happy about it.

Glenn Beck teed off on Utah Republican legislators, calling them "hypocrites" for packing the Utah Supreme Court and warning it could be the end of the Republic. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A bill in the Legislature would require the Jazz, Mammoth, RSL and others to allow concealed weapons into their venues. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Tensions are high as signature gatherers clash with opponents of the bid to repeal Prop 4 and restore the Legislatures ability to gerrymander. In a handful of cases, police have been called. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Gov. Cox has signed a bill into law expanding the Utah Supreme Court by two justices — but lawmakers deny they’re packing the court. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Surprise! Ben McAdams is indeed running for Congress. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.

"Shh. It's a secret. ... Utah's worst kept secret. Ben McAdams is running for Congress!” www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

A landscaping company is seeking $1 Billion in damages, accusing the attorney generals office and former AG Sean Reyes of a baseless, malicious human trafficking prosecution. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Updates from this morning’s testimony from the redistricting hearing. So far we heard the expert for the plaintiffs challenging the maps saying more than 99% of randomly generated maps create one Dem district, indicating the Lege map, with 4 R seats, is an outlier. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Last night, Sen. Daniel Thatcher — who clashed with Republican leadership before leaving the party — announced he would be leaving the senate. He won’t make it official until he’s sure the Utah Forward Party will get to pick his replacement. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

How could the maps the Utah Legislature is considering change Utah's political landscape? I ran the numbers to see how each of the four districts have performed in recent elections. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Pornhub’s owners are paying Utah $5M and potentially up to $15M to settle allegations from the state and FTC that they hosted child sexual abuse and non-consensual videos and images. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

They don't like it, but Republican Lege leaders say they will obey a court order to redraw the state's congressional maps while also pursuing "every legal option." Gibson’s ruling, they said, “unconstitutionally” ties their hands and sets unreasonable deadlines. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Trump trashed an Utah judge’s decision as “unconstitutional” and “activism” aimed at tearing down the Republican majority. He says he wants to make sure the state’s “four Republican Congressmen stay right where they are!” — including Rep. Celeste Maloy. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Breaking: Judge Dianna Gibson has struck down Utahs congressional boundaries, ordering the Legislature to adopt new maps within 30 days that comply with the 2018 Better Boundaries initiative. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

On Monday, a judge will decide if Utah’s congressional boundaries were illegally gerrymandered to help Republicans. The long-awaited decision may trigger a remapping of Utah’s 4 House seats as Texas & Calif. are redrawing maps for political advantage. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Democratic Sen. Nate Blouin has called for Senate President Stuart Adams to resign over his involvement in changing a law that helped an 18-year-old high schooler facing rape charges. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

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Here’s the backstory on how Senate President Stuart Adams spurred a change to state law that helped a teen facing child rape charges. It highlights issues around how the criminal justice system deals with such cases. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Can someone please explain how movie theater popcorn is so addictive?