SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Cold morning temperatures across Utah will give way to warmer conditions and the start of a major warm-up this week.

Monday morning will be cold again as lows fall to the 30s. Monday afternoon highs will be much warmer than Sunday. Highs head to the low-60s with mostly cloudy skies. Breezy conditions felt over the weekend will die down by Monday.

Looking into the rest of the work week, a major warm-up is on the way. Temperatures are expected to surge well above normal by the middle of next week, and parts of Utah could see record warmth, feeling more like early summer.

The Wasatch Front will head to the 80s for a few days in a row, while St. George will head to the 90s for six days in a row. This is the earliest ever that both locations have seen this kind of heat.

This will be a historic heatwave, not only for Utah, but for much of the western half of the country.

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The Utah Jazz and Sacramento Kings are on tap for their final meeting of the 2025-26 season, and both will have several names sidelined for the contest due to injury.

Here’s what to expect on the injury front for both the Jazz and Kings on Sunday:

Utah Jazz Injury Report

– OUT: G John Konchar (calf)

– OUT: F Kyle Filipowski (rest)

– OUT: G Ace Bailey (concussion)

– OUT: G Keyonte George (hamstring)

– OUT: F Lauri Markkanen (hip)

– OUT: C Jusuf Nurkic (nose)

– OUT: F Jaren Jackson Jr. (knee)

– OUT: C Walker Kessler (shoulder)

In all, it’s eight names ruled out for the Jazz, including all five of their projected starters headed into next season. It’ll be the first time this year all five of next season’s starters will all be inactive in a signel game.

Their latest injury was suffered by Ace Bailey in the midst of their Friday game against the Portland Trail Blazers when the Jazz rookie left in the first quarter due to a concussion.

Now as he sits in the league’s concussion protocol, it’ll likely take him out for a few games, including this one against Sacramento. He joins Keyonte George on the sidelines, who’s set to be re-evaluated in two weeks after suffering a hamstring strain, and Lauri Markkanen and his injured hip.

Utah’s wings will also be even more depleted without John Konchar, the Jazz’s veteran trade deadline acquisition who’s been a frequent piece of their rotation in the past month. He will now miss a third consecutive game with a calf injury with no sign of when he may return.

Kyle Filipowski, one of the Jazz’s routinely available starts throughout the year, will also be out of the mix due to rest. He’s missed only one other game so far this season, coming all the way back in November. He’ll now sit out against the Kings for a matchup that holds some heavy draft lottery implications.

Without all five of their regular starters, and a few of his bench pieces, it’ll leave Will Hardy to make a handful of lineup adjustments before tip-off.

Isaiah Collier is likely to slot in as their starting point guard, with Brice Sensabaugh alongside him in the backcourt. Cody Williams also feels like an easy name to slot into Utah’s starting frontcourt, but outside of those three, you can expect to see some surprise names to begin the night in Sacramento.

Sacramento Kings Injury Report

– OUT: C Drew Eubanks (thumb)

– OUT: G Devin Carter (calf)

– OUT: G Malik Monk (ankle)

– OUT: G Isaiah Stevens (thigh)

– OUT: F Keegan Murray (ankle)

– OUT: F DeAndre Hunter (eye)

– OUT: C Domantas Sabonis (knee)

– OUT: G Zach LaVine (hand)

The Kings certainly aren’t without their big injuries as well, as nearly all of their starting five for this season will be out for some injury or surgery, outside of DeMar DeRozan, who’s without any designation.

Former Jazz big man from last year’s roster, Drew Eubanks, will also be out of the mix due to a thumb injury.

Tip-off between the Jazz and Kings lands at 8 p.m. MT in Golden One Center, as Sacramento will have a rare opportunity to win four of their past five games, and thus push Utah one step closer to jumping further into this year’s draft lottery.

SALT LAKE CITY — Numerous proposals from those pressing for more action to crack down on illegal immigration emerged during the Utah legislative session.

Most stalled or failed to gain traction, however, and an immigrant advocate who follows immigration matters closely suspects a couple of things factored into the inaction, including that immigration law and policy are the domain chiefly of federal lawmakers.

“The federal government needs to fix immigration. That is not within our purview or jurisdiction,” said Utah Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City. A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Mexico, she represents a diverse section of the city’s west side and said the immigration issue is of growing concern for some of her constituents.

She also cited the continued influence of the Utah Compact on Immigration, initially adopted in 2010 and reaffirmed in 2019. The compact, signed by a cross-section of Utahns and reps from a range of business and nonprofit organizations, is a set of principles calling for “a humane approach” in contending with immigration, among other things.

The principles “still resonate now,” Escamilla said, and some of the legislative proposals that emerged “were really going against the Utah Compact.”

Detaining and deporting immigrants in the country illegally is a priority of the administration of President Donald Trump and a major concern for many. It’s a big issue in Utah as well, and Utah lawmakers proposed several bills targeting illegal immigration and immigrants in the country illegally in the session that ended last week.

One proposal would have eliminated the state’s driver privilege card program, which lets immigrants in the country illegally secure documentation allowing them to legally drive on Utah’s roads. Another would have required more widespread use among Utah employers of the E-Verify system to prevent the hiring of immigrants in the country illegally. A third, which garnered the most public attention, would have prevented immigrants in the country illegally from tapping into government benefits. Those, among others, stalled or, in the case of the driver privilege card initiative, never got a hearing in the first place.

Lawmakers approved two measures that bear on immigration, one creating new safeguards against voting by immigrants. The other, meant to keep unlicensed drivers off the roads by letting police impound their cars, targets all unlicensed motorists, though part of the debate focused on what some see as the worrisome impact of immigrant drivers without licenses.

During the session, Utah Rep. Trevor Lee, R-Layton, voiced support for increased efforts targeting immigrants in the country illegally. He sponsored the driver privilege card measure and the proposal that would have prevented immigrants in the country illegally from accessing state-funded benefits like immunizations, food at food pantries, space at homeless shelters, crisis counseling and more.

He didn’t respond to a query for comment, but had argued that the availability of driver privilege cards serves as a magnet to immigrants in the country illegally. Halting it, he said, would be one way to temper the incentive for them to come to Utah. In promoting the measure related to state-funded benefits, Lee said reserving such services for citizens was “our fiscal and moral responsibility” in part to be good stewards of public funds.

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Escamilla, for her part, said availability of jobs is the key magnet for immigrants in the country illegally, countering Lee’s contentions about the driver privilege card program. More significantly, perhaps, she said, ending the driver privilege card program could lead to more unlicensed drivers on Utah’s roads, creating a public safety issue.

The initiative related to benefits like crisis counseling and even provision of health care to children in the country illegally came across as “targeting families and children,” she said.

Beyond that, Escamilla said the immigration question is complex and that immigrants in the country illegally fall into a wide range of categories, including those who illegally crossed into the country, asylum-seekers and others trying to regularize their migratory status.

“One of my concerns with trying to address this issue is how people think it’s so simple, and it’s not,” she said.