Utah voters approved the first successful citizen-led ballot initiative in state history. In the years since, six more have ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. This Feb. 11, 1915, edition of the Deseret ...

Utah senators on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill prohibiting the use of cellphones and smart watches in K-12 classrooms ...

A Utah state senator who successfully helped pitch a state plan to add Major League Baseball to Salt Lake City's ...

State Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, introduced a bill that would increase the threshold for citizen initiatives to ...

To Sen. Lincoln Fillmore, R-South Jordan, the question he wants to ask Utah voters is simple: “How easy do you want it to be to raise your taxes?” With SJR2, Fillmore wants to put a question on Utah’s ...

Under a proposed constitutional amendment headed to the Utah House, any future ballot initiative raising taxes would need 60% ...

A bill that would ban cell phones from classrooms all over the state has won support from the Senate Education Committee.

Not having a policy on devices in schools is already a policy for the state of Utah, said South Jordan Republican Sen.

A Utah Senate committee voted Tuesday to advance a bill that would prohibit students from using cellphones or smart watches ...