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Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mike Lee warned against "climate alarmism" in his first meeting as a member of the Senate Budget Committee. The hearing Wednesday titled "Climate Related Economic Risks and their Cost to the Federal Budget and the Global Economy," was the panel's first of the year. Lee, who was removed from the Senate Commerce Committee earlier this year,… → Read More
While taking questions from reporters outside the White House in Washington on Friday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox had a message for Californians looking to relocate to Utah. → Read More
Half of Utahns followed the election of Kevin McCarthy as U.S. House speaker. Utah voters are split over how the chaos affected their view of the Republican Party. → Read More
Many Republicans, including Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes say ESG politicizes Americans’ retirement investments to favor President Joe Biden’s ideological preferences rather than getting the best returns on their money. → Read More
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney says if Americans say the United States should not spend money to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia, they probably should say the U.S. shouldn’t spend on its own national defense either. → Read More
As the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing on how to prevent another Ticketmaster fiasco, Sen. Mike Lee noticed something about Taylor Swift fans demonstrating on Capitol Hill. → Read More
Sen. Mike Lee called out Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for cutting off the pay of Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis while he serves a three-year prison sentence in Japan. → Read More
World events, national decisions and local issues drove some of Utah’s top news stories. A bitter U.S. Senate race, inflation, abortion law and transgender sports were among the most important stories in 2022. → Read More
An audit of the 2022 primary election in Utah found small discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the number of votes counted in some counties. → Read More
A compromise to end the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the military is rolled up in the annual defense spending bill. → Read More
Utah voters might be ready to move on from Donald Trump. → Read More
Mitt Romney called former President Donald Trump’s dinner white supremacist Nick Fuentes and Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, “disgusting.” The Republican Utah senator says Trump should not be president of the United States. → Read More
Sen. Mitt Romney stayed on the sideline in the Utah Senate race, endorsing neither fellow GOP Sen. Mike Lee nor Republican-turned-independent Evan McMullin. → Read More
Utah Sen. Mike Lee became close to former President Donald Trump during Trump's one term in the White House. → Read More
Utah voters returned Mike Lee to the Senate for a third term Tuesday. → Read More
After skipping debates during the primary election and earlier this month, Republican Rep. Burgess Owens has agreed to debate Democrat Darlene McDonald in Utah’s 4th Congressional District on Friday night. → Read More
Sen. Mitt Romney has put his luxury mountain lodge in Park City on the market. The 8,730 square-foot ski-in, ski-out home near Deer Valley Resort is listed for $11.5 million. → Read More
Utah Sen. Mike Lee opposes a bill sponsored by fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham that would ban abortions after 15 weeks nationwide, saying it is not a federal issue. → Read More
After the television cameras stopped rolling at the debate Monday between Republican Sen. Mike Lee and independent challenger Evan McMullin, they separately took questions in what’s known as a media scrum. → Read More
A steady stream of negative campaign ads in the nasty and getting nastier Senate race between Republican Sen. Mike Lee and independent Evan McMullin are making their way to television screens, social media accounts and mailboxes in Utah. → Read More