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SALT LAKE CITY — A bill originally seen as a way to push the Salt Lake City School District into returning all students to the classroom is now focusing on testing for students after its sponsor made major changes Friday. The language of SB107, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, was substantially altered to focus instead on requirements surrounding "Test to Stay" protocols and thresholds. The bill would require the Utah Department of Health to provide support to schools that initiate widespread COVID-19 testing under the Test to Stay program. It also establishes a 2% case thresho...

While the health department currently recommends that schools shut down when they meet certain coronavirus positivity thresholds, a new bill under consideration in the Utah Senate would raise those requirements and create a presumption of openness — allowing students who test negative for COVID-19 during an outbreak to return to class and requiring those who test positive to stay home.

On what would have been her 24th birthday, the Utah Senate honored slain University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey and her family on Friday.

Oct. 22, 2018, McCluskey was shot to death by her ex-boyfriend after he abducted her in the parking lot outside of her dorm on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City.

| Updated: 10:59 p.m. A Utah lawmaker is drawing heat for telling several Black women Tuesday that “you people are beautiful” and for several other comments that he made during a committee hearing on a proposal to bar race-based hair discrimination. Several Black women testified about the harms that race-based grooming policies can inflict, saying people shouldn’t have to suffer the loss of economic or educational opportunities simply because they choose natural hairstyles. However, state Sen. Derrin Owens said he believes society is already heading in the right direction with...