The state Republican Party shifted tactics for repealing a 2018 ballot initiative on redistricting standards on Friday, as hearings continued on the newly enacted congressional maps.

The general municipal elections are fast approaching, with mail-in ballots beginning to arrive at voters’ homes last week.

Instructions for voters in Utah County are causing confusion and uncertainty just two weeks before Election Day.

The Utah GOP is tapping the brakes on a bid to use the initiative process to kill a voter-passed anti-gerrymandering law — a move the state’s top elections official had said injected an “unprecedented” level of chaos into midterm congressional contests.

The legal battle over Utah’s redistricting process and what congressional boundaries should be used for the 2026 election is reaching a new fever pitch — with more complexity and uncertainty than ever.

Just as the second and final day of complicated map-drawing expert testimony came to an end late Friday, another twist cropped up in Utah’s court-ordered redistricting legal battle. An attorney for Utah’s top election official,

Day two of testimony in Utah redistricting case begins as the Republican Legislature defends its preferred map.

Three candidates, two of whom are incumbents, are running for one of the two seats available in Washington City’s general election.

Utah’s Republican Party is writing a plot twist into the last act of the state’s redistricting case. As a deadline approaches to firm up boundaries for 2026, the Utah GOP launched a push Tuesday to block a map proposed by the Legislature and repeal a 2018 redistricting law.

A Utah senator who left the Republican Party earlier this year to become the state’s first lawmaker to join the Forward Party of Utah has announced that he intends to resign before the 2026 legislative session set to begin in January.

Sen. Daniel Thatcher, who bucked Republicans on trans sports, dormitories, food tax and labor bills — before leaving the GOP altogether — says he is stepping down from the Utah Legislature.

The killing of Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 sent shock waves through Orem and Utah County as people mourned Kirk’s death and grappled with political violence occurring in the community.