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The bill, HB443, has the support of Salt Lake City Mayor Mendenhall and the Salt Lake City Council. While they acknowledge the legislation isn’t perfect, it’s a compromise between the city and the state in what’s been a yearslong battle over who controls the money in the Utah Inland Port Authority’s jurisdiction.

Grassroots activists and community builders report on their work, including Stop the Polluting Port, YCC Family Crisis in Ogden, Utah Naloxone and Utah Opioid Task Force. Plus, UMOCA artist-in-residence Nick Pedersen and the museum's Hol...

Deseret News Utah Supreme Court deliberating who decides the future of Salt Lake City land use Outcome of Utah Inland Port Authority lawsuit won’t just decide fate of port, but set statewide precedent for city powers Share this story The area at I-80 near 7200 West where the Utah Inland Port is planned to be built in Salt Lake City is pictured on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. The Utah Supreme Court decision in the lawsuit between Salt Lake City and the Utah Inland Port Authority will set a major pr...

SALT LAKE CITY — And now, we wait. The Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the now yearslong legal war between the state of Utah and its own capital city over whether the Utah Legislatures creation of the Utah Inland Port Authority in northwest Salt Lake City violated the Utah Constitution. It could be weeks, months or even years before the five justices on Utahs highest court reach a decision — a decision that will have major implications not just for the future of the ...

KUER A Utah Senate committee passed a bill Monday to distribute funds for the state’s inland port project. The main port will be located on the northwest side of Salt Lake County, but the port authority plans to create “satellite ports” throughout the state. For the past three years, the Utah Legislature has made tweaks to the state’s inland port project. This year’s bill, which passed a Senate committee Monday morning, creates a "bank" to distribute $75 million in loans for inland p...

SALT LAKE CITY — Its full steam ahead for another Utah Inland Port Authority bill filed late in the Utah Legislatures general session, this year to create a funding mechanism for low-interest loans for rural port projects. Even though dozens of public speakers lined up both online and in person on Utahs Capitol Hill Monday — filling the Senate committee rooms limited capacity due to COVID-19 and multiple overflow rooms — the committees chairman, Sen. Daniel Thatcher, allowed less than 15 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — With just one week of the state Legislatures 2021 session to go, lawmakers dropped a big bill that could have major implications for the Utah Inland Port Authority. House lawmakers, while putting final touches on the state budget, announced Friday a big chunk of cash — $75 million — would be set aside in a newly created state "bank" that could be used to fund loans for the port authority. SB243 creates what House Majority Leader Francis Gibson, R-Mapleton, called "infrast...