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| Updated: Jan. 22, 2021, 12:55 a.m. Under a proposal expected to be unveiled in coming days for the upcoming legislative session, two major Utah state agencies would be merged, teaming environmental regulators with officials who oversee the development of the state’s natural resources. The bill proposes folding the departments of Natural Resources (DNR) and Environmental Quality (DEQ) under one umbrella, possibly along with other state agencies currently housed in the governor’s office. T...

Republican Rep. Chris Stewart said former Rep. Rob Bishop was a strong and consistent advocate for Hill Air Force Base, the Utah Test and Training Range and veterans throughout his time in Congress.

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The Daily Universe Editor’s note: Daily Universe reporters examined how Utah’s congressional delegation responded not only to the Capitol breach on Jan. 6 but the shift in the Republican Party over the last four years in a series of stories. Utah Rep. Blake Moore, who was just elected to represent the First District of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives, has consistently supported President Donald Trump, but declined to challenge president-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College wi...

| Updated: 11:10 p.m. Most former Utah members of Congress just have a routine highway, office building or courthouse named after them. But just-retired Rep. Rob Bishop may soon have the unique honor of seeing a bombing range carry his name. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, introduced legislation Monday that would rename the Utah Test and Training Range in Utah’s West Desert as the “Bishop Utah Test and Training Range.” “Throughout his time in Congress, Mr. Bishop was a strong and consisten...

New Congress has fewest Latter-day Saints in 32 years. How might that impact the church? Lee Davidson © Andrew Harnik (Andrew Harnik | AP file photo) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., arrive before NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a Joint Meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 3, 2019. Lee and Romney are among only nine Latter-day Saints now in Congress, the smallest number in at least 32 years....

Top Utah news stories of 2020: A year like no other Dec 26, 2020, 10:00pm MST Juliet Tuineau, Ray Tuineau’s widow, pours a bucket of soil on her husband’s coffin during a burial service at Valley View Memorial Park in West Valley City on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. Ray Tuineau was one of the more than 380 Utahns who died because of COVID-19. | Yukai Peng, Deseret News The pandemic. The nearly yearlong ravages of the COVID-19 virus left little for Deseret News editors to debat...

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After nine terms in office, Rep. Rob Bishop, R-UT, is retiring. Outgoing Rep. Rob Bishop, R-UT, has been in Congress for nine terms. He served as chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and he’s the most senior member of Utah’s congressional delegation. But he still introduces himself as Rob. “When I was in the state Legislature, I realized one day that everyone had to call us ‘the honorable,’ and no one could sit in our seats,” Bishop said. “One could really get a big ...