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Utah hits a record high for daily vaccinations, as another 1,468 cases of COVID-19 are reported Courtney Tanner © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Julyn Shepherd fills syringes for Utah County residents to get their COVID-19 vaccinations in a former Shopko store in Spanish Fork, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for . The Utah Department of Health reported administering nearly 19,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine over the last day— the highest daily num...

What do special interests get for providing $9 of every $10 in Utah legislators’ campaigns? Lee Davidson © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) A free lunch sponsored by Farmer's Insurance is served to Utah legislators in the Capitol Rotunda on February 12, 2016. Last year, special interests provided 87% of campaign donations to legislators, again raising questions about how much influence that may buy. Special interests provided a mammoth 87 cents of every dollar that Utah legislators raised for their campaigns last year, a new Salt Lake Tribune analysis shows. Mea...

Bill advances on an 8-3 vote, but transportation officials and cycling groups disagree on its potential impact on safety.

Utah officials end effort to eliminate BYU’s police department Jessica Miller © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The police station at Brigham Young University on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Brigham Young University’s police force is here to stay. State officials announced Tuesday that they won’t appeal an administrative law judge’s decision to dismiss the state’s effort to strip the private university of its police powers. That decision ended a two-year battle where the Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented action of seeking to decertify th...

Lawmaker again seeks stricter ban on cellphones while driving Lee Davidson © Francisco Kjolseth (Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) People hold cellphones while driving in the Salt Lake Valley in early 2019. The Legislature is again considering a bill banning hand-held phone use while driving. State Rep. Carol Moss says her push to restrict cellphone use by drivers is the one topic she hears about constantly from voters, and was even mentioned in a letter from a Utah State Prison inmate. “He was writing mostly about prison conditions,” said the Democratic lawmaker...