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Smith Entertainment Group estimates spending $525 million remodeling Delta Center
Salt Lake City has drafted an initial agreement with Smith Entertainment Group to raise its sales taxes by 0.5% to renovate the Delta Center to accommodate a National Hockey League team and revitalize three downtown blocks. The tax increase is expected to raise about $900 million for what’s known as the Capital City Revitalization Zone […]
Utah, Idaho joins request to American Bar Association to drop its DEI standards
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador signed a letter with 19 Republican counterparts asking the American Bar Association to drop its diversity and inclusion standards for law schools. DEI efforts implemented in the schools directs their administrators to violate both the Constitution and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, […]
Utah Gov. Cox calls on Utahns to consider foster care amid large shortage of licensed families
It has been decades since Utah had a similar crisis; the number of foster parents is at an all time low, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Tuesday. Now, he and the first lady Abby Cox are calling on Utahns to consider opening up their doors for foster children There are 1,756 children needing foster […]
SLC airport expects its construction investment dollars to double in economic benefits
Salt Lake City International Airport returned to pre-pandemic travel levels in 2023. Another milestone it expects to reach is to produce major economic impact with its construction plans set to be ready by 2026. For every construction dollar invested in the airport redevelopment program, the benefit is nearly twice that amount — $1.99, according to […]
Ryan Smith has landed an NHL team for Utah. Now what?
Utah is officially getting a National Hockey League franchise, and attention now turns to potential changes coming to its future home in downtown Salt Lake City. After days of chatter in Utah and Arizona, it was confirmed on Thursday that the Arizona Coyotes are moving to the Beehive State as a new franchise under the […]
SLC Airport undergoes ‘second transformation’ with new central tunnel
Those who have used the Concourse B of the redeveloped Salt Lake City International Airport know about “the walk,” a stretch of more than 2,000 feet that most passengers have to hike to get to and from the B gates. But that may change this October, when a shorter, more artistic tunnel opens to the […]
University of Utah women’s basketball team ‘shaken’ by ‘racial hate crimes’ in Idaho
The University of Utah’s women’s basketball program denounced instances of “racial hate crimes” they experienced in northern Idaho during their trip to play in the NCAA Tournament’s first and second rounds at Gonzaga University. The team’s accommodations were at a hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, over a 35 minute drive from Gonzaga, located in Spokane, […]
Utah drops statewide hotel tax from public funding plan for MLB stadium
Utah’s funding of a Major League Baseball stadium on the west side of Salt Lake City is quickly moving through the Legislature in the last week of the general session. But, amid criticism, the bill that would enable the state to pay for the arena has gone through substantial change. The stadium would no longer […]
SLC airport receives $20 million federal grant to work on B concourse
The Salt Lake City International Airport received $20 million from the federal government to fund a portion of the B concourse expansion that would include 16 gates. The money comes from a package from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is funding 114 airports across the country, a news release from the U.S. Department of Transportation […]
Utah may pay $900 million to fund potential MLB stadium, increase hotel tax
Plans to build a Major League Baseball stadium and an entertainment district may materialize on the west side of Salt Lake City with the help of taxpayer dollars. House Bill 562 Utah Fairpark Area Investment and Restoration District, sponsored by Ogden Republican Rep. Ryan Wilcox, creates a political subdivision funded by a 1.5% increase in Transient […]
Pandemic-era internet discount program may end this spring as funds run out
A COVID-era program allowed 22.5 million low-income households across the country to get discounts on internet services. But, the funds allocated for it are running out and if Congress doesn’t take action, the program may end this spring. The Affordable Connectivity Program, a high-speed internet initiative, provides discounts of $30 to $75 a month on […]