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Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now that they’ve won a major battle over mail ballots. Common Cause, a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization, announced a “voter protection” campaign Thursday that would place thousands of volunteers at polling sites in 25 states.

OGDEN, Utah – Northern Utah communities in Senate District 5 are voicing concerns over Flock Safety cameras, with varied results. The use of Flock cameras, or similar automated license plate readers (ALPR), has sparked concern across Utah. The cameras work by scanning passing vehicles and logging the information into a nationwide database. Worries about tracking, abuse of data, and loss of privacy have flooded city council meetings across the state. How are Northern Utah cities responding to Flock?

We all have our favorite ways to welcome fall. Some of us buy new sweaters. Some of us go leaf-peeping. Some of us chase pumpkin spice experiences at local coffee shops. And some of us like to pile in the car with friends or family and spend the day at one of Utah’s many corn mazes, U-pick fields, or haunted attractions.

Tooele County and Utah Inland Port Authority officials said that plans to build a data center in Tooele Valley aren’t currently moving forward — and it remains to be seen whether it will go anywhere at all.

SALT LAKE CITY – Equality Utah, a major LGBTQ+ advocacy organization in the state, made headlines last week after its political action committee (PAC) endorsed several Republicans. However, the candidates in one contested local race say the controversy obscures the issues that matter most to voters. Democrats say Equality Utah missed the mark Equality Utah announced its PAC endorsements for the 2026 midterm election on Sept. 7.

Citing an “exceptionally difficult” year for Utah farmers due to drought, wildfire and animal disease, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food officials said they are taking an “unprecedented step” to give financial relief to producers with active department of agriculture loans.

Utah doesn’t get talked about as a fall foliage destination in the way New England does, but it should. The state is home to enormous stands of quaking aspen—including Pando, a single 106-acre organism near Fish Lake believed to be one of the largest living things on Earth—plus canyon maples, Gambel oak, and cottonwoods that turn Utah’s mountains into sheets of gold, orange, and red each September and October. The color shows up across wildly different landscapes, too.

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Two-thirds of Utah voters support restoring the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to the previous boundaries they had before President Donald Trump reduced them to less than a quarter of their original size.

Letters from the U.S. Department of Justice have become a constant in Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson’s mail. As Utah’s chief election officer, she has refused to release private voter data despite threats of criminal prosecution from the agency, and has been the most vocal top elected official on the issue — until now.

SALT LAKE CITY – Buying a home in Salt Lake County continues to grow more unaffordable, a new report shows. A report from the Salt Lake Board of Realtors looks at what it takes for buyers to afford a median-priced home. The median price of a single-family home in Salt Lake County was $645,000 in the second quarter of 2026—a record high. To afford a median-priced single-family home in Salt Lake County, the Board of Realtors found that a household needs an annual income of $186,827.