By Kyle Trygstad, Roll Call

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch escaped a top-tier intraparty opponent last week, but it’s still highly likely he will be challenged at next year’s state GOP convention.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s decision last week not to run against his …

By Kyle Trygstad, Roll Call

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) raised $1.3 million in the second quarter, as he faces a likely state GOP convention challenge in his quest for a seventh term.

Hatch now has $3.4 million in the bank, a total …

By Kyle Trygstad and David M. Drucker, Roll Call

Welcome to extreme makeover, the Sen. Orrin Hatch edition.

The Utah Republican — fearful that 3,500 locally elected grass-roots, state GOP delegates could boot him from office 10 …

By Associated Press, FOXNews.com

SALT LAKE CITY — Immigrant and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try to block a Utah immigration law that they say will create a police state and is too much like one of the …

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(SALT LAKE CITY) — Utah has become the first state to officially designate a state firearm.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert recently signed legislation making the Browning M1911 the state’s official gun. The designation honors John Browning, the designer of the …

By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times

President Obama’s aides were flabbergasted. Here was Mark Shurtleff, the conservative Republican attorney general of deeply red Utah, explaining how he and other GOP officials had approved a …

By Stephen Clark, FoxNews

It’s been nearly 80 years since the U.S. stopped using gold coins as legal currency, and nearly 40 since the world abandoned the gold standard, but the precious metal could be making a comeback in the United …

By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post

Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson is a political survivor of the first sort, holding down a very conservative Utah House district for the past decade.

But Republicans think Matheson will face his toughest opponent ever: redistricting.

The GOP controls …

By MANU RAJU, Politico

At first glance, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch seems to be the ideal tea party target: He’s a 34-year Senate veteran with a history of deal cutting with Democrats who voted for the bank bailout of 2008.

But this …

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials said Friday they have identified at least two state workers who apparently accessed confidential documents to create a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants that was mailed to law enforcement officials and the …