It started raining cats and dogs Saturday morning, so the horses didn’t race at Sweetwater Downs. The cancellation was a rare pause in an otherwise packed weekend for Mike McKell, a Utah state senator ...

Two new bills introduced on Capitol Hill would make certain kratom products a controlled substance in Utah, placing them in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patti Wheeler, from Florida, whose son died from a kratom overdose, center, is recognized as she stands with Sen. Mike McKell, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — State lawmakers are getting ready to consider whether some government records should no longer be made public, even if the release of those records would be in the public’s best ...

Utah Republican lawmakers crafted an election package in 2025, known as HB300, that cobbled together proposals to update voter verification by requiring state ID numbers, and to sanitize voter rolls ...

A panel of Utah lawmakers have given an initial nod to a draft bill that would criminalize accessing and disclosing certain information about how or when individual voters return their ballots. The ...

SALT LAKE CITY—A Senate committee advanced a bill that would replace Utah's seven-person panel overseeing public records with a single attorney appointed by the governor. However, several senators ...

“I wish Utah was not kind of the birthplace of the Kratom Protection Act,” proposed ban sponsor Sen. Mike McKell said.