OGDEN, Utah, Feb. 8 -- Weber State University issued the following news: Twelve of Weber State University's best professors received the 2024 Presidential Teaching Excellence Award in January, when WSU President Brad Mortensen made surprise visits to each of their classrooms. The award is based on nominations from students, faculty and staff who recognize the student-focused efforts of WSU professors in various fields of study, from the arts to the sciences. "Weber State is known for our fo  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 10 -- Gov. Spencer J. Cox, R-Utah, issued the following news release: Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox announced he will be sending law enforcement and Utah National Guard members to the Texas border after Utah's Department of Public Safety and Utah National Guard received Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) requests from their Texas counterparts. The EMACs came days after Gov. Cox visited the border with 14 fellow governors. On Feb. 26, Utah National Guard will   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 7 -- Gov. Spencer J. Cox, R-Utah, issued the following news release: Gov. Spencer J. Cox, President J. Stuart Adams and Speaker Mike Schultz released the following statement regarding the governor's withdrawal of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Legislature's joint resolution rejecting the proposed land exchange of state school and institutional trust lands and mineral interests for  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 3 -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: University of Utah Health Plans (UUHP) has been notified of information security incidents experienced by three vendors relating to their use of the MOVEit file transfer software. Delta Dental, TMG Health, Inc, and Virgin Pulse. On November 13, 2023, Delta Dental, who administers supplemental dental services for UUHP Health Choice Generations members, notified UUHP they experienced a security incid  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of Utah Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2024: Visitors spent a record $11.98 billion in Utah's economy in 2022, generating 98,600 direct travel-related jobs and $1.37 billion in direct state and local tax revenue, according to the latest annual industry report released today by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. The report notes that overall, state visitation and other tourism-related economi  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 6 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Feb. 5, 2024: Today, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes announced a $350 million national settlement with Publicis Health to resolve investigations into the global marketing and communications firm's role in the prescription opioid crisis. Utah will receive nearly $3.93 million from the settlement to help address the opioid crisis. By agreeing to the settlement terms, Publicis acknowledged its con  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 10 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to U.S. Congressional leaders urging the federal government to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). In the aftermath of the horrific October 7th terrorist attack in Israel, the world learned that over a dozen UNRWA employees may have participated in those atrocities against the Jewish people. President Joe Biden reversed the   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 9 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Before the demise of the Biden-Senate immigration bill, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general on a Texas-led letter to the United States Senate leadership strongly objecting to measures in the "border bill." AG Reyes maintains that "Creating more laws for the President to ignore will not solve the border crisis. Congress should permit the States to enforce fed  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 7 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a comment letter to Secretary Janet Yellen of the U.S. Department of Treasury. The letter, which was led by the State of Montana, opposes the unconstitutional action by the Treasury Department to initiate a Direct File program for American taxpayers. The Direct File program was created to prepare and file tax returns for Americans. This program stemmed from the p  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 10 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to President Joseph R. Biden and Commerce Secretary Jennifer Granholm over the administration's recent "pause" of liquefied natural gas exports. The letter, which was led by the States of Kansas, Indiana, Louisiana, and West Virginia, explains how this executive action further compromises American energy security and independence. Last month, the Biden-  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 7 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Utah Attorney General Reyes joined a coalition of 25 states in a petition asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new rule unlawful. The new rule pertains to the procedures under which states submit state implementation plans as mandated by Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Under a section of the Clean Air Act, st  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 6 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Feb. 5, 2024: Today, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes led a 20-state letter to Secretary Gina Raimondo of the U.S. Department of Commerce responding to the Department's request for information on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Twenty states signed the letter, objecting to the Biden Administration's Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, whi  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 10 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to leadership of the U.S. House and Senate "urging Congress to provide bridge funding to the Crime Victims Fund." The letter, spearheaded by the attorneys general from Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, was sent by the National Association of Attorneys General. According to the letter, the "Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (VOCA) established the Crime  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 8 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following statement on Feb. 7, 2024: * * * The Division of Child and Family Support represents the State Office of Recovery Services in doing the legal work necessary to 'promote responsibility'. We help ensure that parents are financially responsible for their children by providing child support services and support for children in care. This work includes child support, enforcing child support orders, and recover  more

OGDEN, Utah, Feb. 9 -- Weber State University issued the following news: Norlito Ranchez Jr. has lived in Utah for just two years, but during that short time, he's accomplished things he never thought possible. Ranchez Jr. was born and raised in Hawaii on the island of Maui. Since high school, he knew he wanted to pursue a career in chemistry, though he wasn't always sure how. "I am a first-generation student coming from a low-income family," Ranchez Jr. said. "So, applying to colleges and   more