Utah

"John Boehner supported my run for chairman of the [House] Oversight Committee. I wouldn't have been the chairman if it weren't for John Boehner." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jason Chaffetz: I’m surprised John Boehner called me an ‘a–hole’

Naomi Lim · October 31, 2017 1:54 am

Dale Brumfield, field Director for Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, left, and Jack Payden-Travers, right stand under a rainbow as the Greensville Correctional Center Thursday, July 6, 2017, in Jarratt, Va. The two arrived for a vigil in opposition to the execution of William Morva who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday for the 2006 killings of a hospital security guard and sheriff's deputy. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

When capital punishment ends, Republicans will be the ones who end it

Marc Hyden · October 30, 2017 4:01 am

Atlantic Reports That Hatch Will Retire and Romney Will Likely Run

Andrew Egger · October 27, 2017 9:44 pm

President Trump waves as he boards Air Force One as he departs at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Energy and Environment

Trump to visit Utah ahead of decision on Bears Ears monument

Gabby Morrongiello · October 27, 2017 7:51 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended that Trump shrink Bears Ears, a 1.35 million-acre monument that former President Barack Obama designated in December. (AP Photo/Michelle Price)

Energy and Environment

Trump will shrink size of Bears Ears National Monument, Orrin Hatch says

Josh Siegel · October 27, 2017 6:54 pm

Flake would have been a perfect fit as a Senator from Utah. (Senate TV via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Jeff Flake is the senator from the wrong state

Michael Barone · October 25, 2017 5:30 pm

Beltway Confidential

With Roy Moore endorsement, Mike Lee opens the door for a mini-Trump in the Senate

Philip Wegmann · October 16, 2017 4:41 pm

Licensing is generally justified on the grounds of public safety or fraud protection. But while it makes sense to license people in fields such as healthcare, many local governments regulate careers in which the public benefit is harder to justify: beauticians, tour guides, and tax preparers, among others. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

States rethink occupational license rules

Sean Higgins · October 16, 2017 4:01 am

Body-camera footage showed nurse Alex Wubbels being dragged outside the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City after she requested Payne show a warrant or a formal consent to draw blood from a patient. (Salt Lake City Police Department/Courtesy of Karra Porter via AP, File)

Utah police officer who dragged and arrested nurse has been fired

Diana Stancy Correll · October 11, 2017 1:00 am

Boyd Matheson, a former chief of staff to Sen. Mike Lee who now runs a conservative think tank, is considering a run against the longtime Utah senator. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Utah Republican may run against Orrin Hatch in primary

Ariella Phillips · October 10, 2017 12:25 am

Idaho's Obamacare customers will face an average 27 percent premium increase next year because of too many sick customers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Idaho faces 27 percent increase in Obamacare rates next year

Robert King · September 29, 2017 7:04 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rides a horse in the new Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding, Utah. A leaked memo from Zinke to President Trump recommends that two Utah monuments -- Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante -- be reduced, along with Nevada's Gold Butte and Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

10 national monuments could be scaled back under draft Ryan Zinke plan

John Siciliano · September 18, 2017 10:58 am