Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City Cracks Down on Large Groups Greeting Missionaries at Airport

The stricter rules came after hundreds of residents ignored social-distancing guidelines to greet missionaries returning from abroad.

  • By Kate Elizabeth Queram

Route Fifty Navigator Awards Discussion: Uncovering Innovation In Utah

Join us in Salt Lake City (or remotely) for our first Navigator Awards discussion with innovators driving transformation at the state and local level.

  • By Mitch Herckis

Dirty Air, Climate Change Preoccupy Salt Lake City Leaders

Local officials in smoggy Utah are fighting to reduce pollution and move toward solar and other renewable energy sources.

  • By Timothy B. Clark

Increase in Youth Suicide Prompts States to Act

The decade-long rise in youth suicide in the U.S. has been particularly steep in Utah, which has launched several suicide prevention efforts aimed at young people.

  • By The Pew Charitable Trusts

A New Coalition to Lower State and Local Incarceration Rates

Launched by the White House, the Data-Driven Justice Initiative wants to lower prison inmate numbers and increase the number of prisoners receiving health care and mental health services with proven methods.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

Code for America Names Local Government Partners for Its 2016 Fellowship Program

Among the priorities for 2016 fellows: Improve access to health and human services, reduce incarceration levels and promote economic development.

  • By Michael Grass

8 State and Local Election Results Worth Noting

From the Kentucky gubernatorial election to ballot measures on affordable housing in San Francisco, here are some of the races and initiatives we were tracking.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

Police Lawsuit Aims to Make Milwaukee Gun Shop Pay; Major Kentucky ‘Obamacare’ Insurer Goes Belly Up

Also: Salt Lake charter school teachers are ‘unqualified,’ not sticking around and judge orders Arkansas to reveal the identity of its execution-drug supplier.

  • By John Tomasic

Mixed Messages With Utah’s Deseret Flag?; Virginia’s ‘Road to Nowhere’ Settlement

Also: More woes for Detroit and mental health challenges for hospitals in Massachusetts.

  • By Michael Grass
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