The new 500-kilowatt-hour battery at the Uintah Basin Campus is the university's first large-scale storage system, and part of it is reserved for Rocky Mountain Power.
The $100,000 study lawmakers ordered in HB 311 found neither voting method is inherently more secure, and priced three ways to add an ID check at ballot drop boxes.
Snyderville Basin voters decide up to $71 million in recreation bonds, San Juan County votes on a 1% ambulance sales tax, and Washington City votes on a fire and emergency services sales tax. Here is what each measure does, what it would cost and what is not on the ballot.
Utah Valley University researchers told lawmakers that staffing drop boxes to check voter ID would cost about $8 million a year.
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Provo Towne Centre sign off Interstate 15, February 22, 2018. File photo under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: An Errant Knight · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Proposition 7 would raise just over $1 million a year, with groceries, fuel and prescription medicine exempt, and county leaders expect tourists to pay much of it.
Washington County's rescue team reported more incidents and many more people rescued in 2025. State records show a reimbursement formula under review and a new grant for rural counties, but no statewide measure of whether teams can keep up.
A live zebra mussel turned up in the Colorado River below Westwater this fall, and lawmakers set aside $4 million for more decontamination dip tanks. Inspection totals show how much work the program does; they do not count invasions prevented.
Utah was early to write AI rules, and now the fight has moved to large data centers in rural counties, where opposition has already cost officials their seats.
Three groups say the BLM skipped required reviews when it approved paving and straightening Gate Canyon's road between Uinta Basin oil fields and Carbon County rail yards.
Davis County's clerk detailed the chain-of-custody, signature checks and offline equipment that guard ballots, while clerks warned that national rhetoric is confusing voters.
A $110 million federally guaranteed loan helped Geneva Steel emerge from bankruptcy in 2001. Within a year the Utah mill was idle and back in bankruptcy; the government paid $92.1 million on its guarantee, and the equipment was sold to a Chinese steelmaker for $40 million.
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