Utah News

Bartender Becca Jones prepares drinks recently at the Oyster Bar in Salt Lake City.

Ellie Smith performs at DISH Las Vegas charity event for Three Square at the Spring Preserve.

Two new locations and one new fish species at an existing advisory location have been added to Utah's mercury fish consumption advisory list.

Bartenders in Utah threw open their doors Wednesday as the state ditched a 40-year-old requirement that customers fill out an application, pay a fee and become a member of a private club before setting foot in a bar.

The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding college football's Bowl Championship Series.

Nick Jennings, left, and Joe Aragon, both of Salt Lake City, enjoy a meal and drinks while watching sports at the Fiddler's Elbow in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 27, 2009.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday that close to 700,000 acres of federal land in Western states, including Utah, will be set aside as solar energy study areas to be evaluated for their suitability for large-scale solar energy production.

A Utah Department of Health report shows there were 89 serious medical errors last year in Utah hospitals and surgical centers.

Premier Resorts International is still avoiding answering the question, "Where did the money go?" Two weeks ago, the affiliate Premier Resorts of Utah submitted a Statement of Financial Affairs to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Salt Lake City listing its assets and liabilities.

TOOELE, Utah -- An ambitious director might look at Mitch Halligan's property and see an instant B-movie classic: "Invasion of the Grasshoppers." The place is overrun with the greasy little bugs.

Jun. 22--Utah's liquor laws are set to relax July 1, bringing them more in line with those of the rest of the nation, but don't expect Salt Lake City to morph into Sin City any time soon.

Two years after a Utah mine collapsed, entombing six miners more than 2,000 feet under a mountain and also killing three members of a rescue team, the state's coal operators are backing away from rich coal reserves held deep under the ground.Coal mines have come under intense scrutiny in every part of the country, with the Mine Safety and Health ...

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, wants to have letter carriers conduct the population count for the U.S. Census next year.

Michael Jackson fan Matt Brown said when he heard of Michael Jackson's death, "It was surreal." "I grew up with Michael Jackson.

The deaths of a young woman in Utah County and a boy in Davis County have been linked to the novel H1N1 swine flu, bringing Utah's total of deaths from the virus to 10.

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The Utah Department of Health reported on Tuesday that 210 Utahns have been hospitalized due to illnesses associated with the novel H1N1 influenza virus and 10 have died .

The search continued Tuesday morning for a boater missing since Monday afternoon after he capsized along with five others on Utah Lake.

The Utah State Prison has lifted their quarantine on a dormitory after tests results for the H1N1 flu virus returned negative.

Utah's new immigration law, SB81, takes effect July 1. But several attorneys who belong to the American Immigration Lawyers Association say they're not waiting.