Some Salt Lake County residents and state representatives of the region are pushing back against a proposed bill they say would allow for excessive mining in Parleys Canyon.
Utah lawmakers considered banning cellphones in public school classrooms. A bill failed in Utah House committee. Opponents called the proposed law government overreach.
House lawmakers capped off the second week of the ongoing legislative session by approving funding for mental health crisis receiving centers in rural Utah, and amending court defenses after animal activists were found not guilty after taking sick piglets from a Beaver County farm.