Government

The Republican primary candidates for Utah House District 20 are Melissa Garff Ballard, Matt Jensen and Glen Jenkins.

Read more about the Republican primary candidates for Utah House District 19. 

The idea is part of the 2019 budget proposal, which city officials take up for adoption on Tuesday.

Kyle Andersen and Lisa Roskelley face off in the June 26 Republican primary for the District 7 seat, held by Justin Fawson before he stepped down.

WASHINGTON (AP) — You don’t just feel the heat of global warming, you can see it in action all around. Some examples of where climate change’s effects have been measured: —Glaciers across the globe are melting and retreating, with 279 billion tons of ice lost since 2002, according to NASA’s GRACE...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congress and immigration (all times local): 11:50 a.m. The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says there is no other way to put it: “Thousands of children are being forcibly removed from their parents by our government.” Thomas Donohue, the business advocacy...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S.-China trade tensions (all times local): 11:14 a.m. The top White House trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says Beijing “may have underestimated the resolve of President Donald J. Trump” by refusing to meet U.S. demands on trade and by threatening to retaliate against...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Trade Representative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports as the two nations move closer to a potential trade war. The tariffs, which Trump wants set at a 10 percent rate, would be the latest round of punitive...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge of construction in the Midwest drove U.S. housing starts up 5 percent in May from the prior month. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that housing starts rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.35 million, the strongest pace since July 2007. All of May’s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the administration’s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss broader immigration legislation. Top conservatives, including key...