Governor of Utah
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In office; mansion grounds being converted
For years, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has asked residents to replace their lawns with water-wise landscaping. The grass outside his own residence stayed green. This week that changed.
Updated Yesterday
Pushed for the 2026 law clarifying prop betting as gambling
Utah can keep enforcing its ban on sports-style prediction bets while Kalshi appeals. The 10th Circuit on September 10 declined to pause the state's prop betting law, rejecting the company's request to keep trading during the appeal.
Updated 2 days ago
Approved the appointment
Utah's state government runs its own insurance operation, funding liability claims for agencies, schools, universities, and charter schools through captive companies instead of buying commercial policies. On Sept. 6, veteran attorney Dennis Flynn took over the division that manages that risk.
Updated 6 days ago
Supports the monument shrink
Patagonia, five tribal nations, and environmental groups sued September 2 to block Trump's second shrink of Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments. The case is before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. She is weighing whether to reopen a 2017 lawsuit that stalled after Biden restored the monuments.
Pushed a 150,000-unit housing target
A national homebuilder just started work on 63 four-bedroom townhomes in Sandy, Utah, priced around $550,000. That is roughly $150,000 below the area's median home price, in a county where 88% of residential land is zoned for detached single-family houses.
Updated Sep 3
Issued a state of emergency over 2026 fruit crop losses
The apple harvest at Wasatch Mountain State Park's Huber Grove is off this year. The orchard's roughly 80 trees, some dating to the late 1800s, produced only a few hundred apples instead of thousands, so the park canceled its annual picking event.
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