The first returns from Utah polls in the US Senate and House of Representatives indicate Representative Jim Matheson has survived his first ever primary to face republican Morgan Philpot, hoping to return for a sixth ...

SALT LAKE CITY — If early results hold up, Utah Rep. Jim Matheson will survive his first primary challenge and advance to a general election contest in November. At 8 p.m., when polls closed and the first results were ...

Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, took the lead over Democratic challenger Claudia Wright this evening when election officials started tallying the choices of early voters. With nearly 2 percent of precincts reporting shortly ...

Sen. Hatch had a conference call on Monday on two bills that he’s introduced in the Senate (the American Job Protection Act and the American Liberty Restoration Act) to remove, respectively, the employer mandate and ...

In this May 8, 2010 file photo, Utah Republican Senate candidate Mike Lee speaks in Salt Lake City. After pulling off a huge upset that ended U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett's bid for a fourth term, Utah's two remaining GOP Senate ...

Utah voters have reacted enthusiastically to Sen. Orrin Hatch's legislation to drug test the unemployed and those receiving other forms of government cash assistance, the Utah Republican told the Huffington Post after ...

Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC this afternoon to discuss GOP Senator Orrin Hatch's (Utah) plan to drug test people receiving unemployment benefits. Asked how Hatch believes he can pay for this new ...

A t first blush, Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater have a lot in common. Both are graduates of Brigham Young University, both are self-described tea-party conservatives, and both beat three-term senator Bob Bennett at last ...

Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC this afternoon to discuss GOP Senator Orrin Hatch's (Utah) plan to drug test people receiving unemployment benefits. Asked how Hatch believes he can pay for this new ...

In this May 8, 2010 file photo, Utah Republican Senate candidate Mike Lee speaks in Salt Lake City. After pulling off a huge upset that ended U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett's bid for a fourth term, Utah's two remaining GOP Senate ...

SALT LAKE (ABC 4 News) - Utah Senator Bob Bennett is urging voters not to write-in his name on the ballot. On the eve of Utah's primary election, Bennett says some voters still want to support him. Bennett says it took ...

The results in Tuesday's Democrat primary in Utah's 2nd congressional district should offer a window into the limits of this cycle's anti-incumbent fervor. The Democrat running to the left of Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah ...

FILE - In this May 8, 2010 file photo, Utah Republican Senate candidate Tim Bridgewater speaks in Salt Lake City. After pulling off a huge upset that ended U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett's bid for a fourth term, Utah's two ...

An Indian-American woman and a black man pursued the Republican nominations for governor and Congress in South Carolina primary runoffs Tuesday in a measure of racial progress in the Deep South and the GOP. Voters in ...

Utah Republicans have already ousted one formerly popular incumbent this primary season, and rumors are swirling that they may do it again today—this time, to a Democrat. Rep. John Matheson, the Blue Dog Dem who has ...

Jim Matheson, Utah's lone democrat congressman, is facing a tough challenge this election. This challenge isn't being mounted by Republicans, although they could benefit from the current political climate against incumbents. The real challenge comes from within his own Democratic Party. Claudia ...

A t first blush, Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater have a lot in common. Both are graduates of Brigham Young University, both are self-described tea-party conservatives, and both beat three-term senator Bob Bennett at last ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson is facing his first-ever Democratic primary challenger as he seeks a sixth term in office. Polls show the 50-year-old Matheson leading retired school teacher Claudia Wright ...

Utah Republicans are heading to the polls Tuesday to decide whether attorney Mike Lee or businessman Tim Bridgewater will be their nominee for U.S. Senate. Since winning at the May party convention, Bridgewater has been ...

A t first blush, Mike Lee and Tim Bridgewater have a lot in common. Both are graduates of Brigham Young University, both are self-described tea-party conservatives, and both beat three-term senator Bob Bennett at last ...