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(The Federalist Society) Latter-day Saint Sheldon Gilbert, a graduate of the University of Utah, will soon lead a powerful conservative/libertarian legal organization.

Federalist Society appoints LDS lawyer as president

By Tamarra Kemsley | Dec. 18, 2024, 2:34 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mitt Romney holds up a campaign pin during his farewell press conference at Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.

Mitt Romney says GOP is Donald Trump’s party — and ‘mainstream Republicans’ are now ‘main creek’

By Robert Gehrke | Dec. 13, 2024, 9:44 p.m.

(John Minchillo | AP) Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

Convicted Jan. 6 rioter invited to Trump’s inauguration by Utah congressional delegates, per letter

By Emily Anderson Stern | Robert Gehrke | Dec. 13, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

(Kim Raff for The New York Times) A view of Vineyard in October 2024 looking toward Utah Lake.

In a growing Utah City, residents are turning against their mayor

By Leia Larsen | The New York Times and The Salt Lake Tribune

(Mark Schiefelbein | AP) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, center left, and Arline Arnold Brady, center right, the great-granddaughter of Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah, join others in unveiling a statue of Cannon during a ceremony on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, in Washington.

Statue of first woman state senator, elected in Utah, unveiled at U.S. Capitol

By Emily Anderson Stern | Dec. 12, 2024, 5:02 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ballots in the counting center at Utah County's Administration Building in Provo on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.

It looks like 2 dead Utahns cast ballots and 3 people voted twice, audit finds

By Robert Gehrke | Dec. 10, 2024, 9:08 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, leads the Senate on the last night of the Legislature's general session in March 2024. A new BYU poll shows Utah voters overwhelmingly oppose giving the Legislature the power to repeal or rewrite grassroots ballot initiatives.

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Poll finds wide opposition to Amendment D, but Utah voters could have been tricked by ballot language

By Robert Gehrke | Dec. 9, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah State Records Committee holds a hearing on Thursday, July 18, 2024, that included an appeal from former state Rep. Phil Lyman.

New Utah State Records Committee nominees debate releasing public officials’ work calendars — and one draws concerns

By Courtney Tanner | Dec. 9, 2024, 3:04 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, makes remarks at a rally against a proposed constitutional amendment to reform the grassroots initiative process at the Capitol in Salt Lake City in August 2024. The lawmaker has now been removed as chair of a key committee.

Longtime Utah GOP senator, who has bucked his party on key votes, loses a chairmanship and an office

By Robert Gehrke | Dec. 6, 2024, 11:36 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox meets veterans Gordon Steck, left, and Daniel Butz, both residents of the William E. Christoffersen Salt Lake Veterans Home, as the governor gets ready to present budget recommendations and priorities for 2026 on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.

Gov. Spencer Cox’s new budget has a gift for tens of thousands of Utahns

By Shannon Sollitt | Dec. 5, 2024, 11:07 p.m.