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While Utah averages more than 500 deaths a year due to excessive drinking, the state still has the lowest rate among 11 select states, according to a report released Thursday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Utah lawmakers touted substantial increases in state spending for public education programs in the $13.5 billion budget for the coming fiscal year passed this week.

The stage for the 2014 session was set on the Legislature's opening day, when House Speaker Becky Lockhart's audacious criticism of Gov. Gary Herbert drew cheers and gasps, and her words echoed throughout the most substantive and high-profile policy debates.

The Governor's Office of Economic Development and Houweling's Tomatoes announced today the company will build a new, environmentally friendly greenhouse tomato farm in Juab County that is expected to create more than 280 new jobs.

With the Legislature wrapping up, most Utahns might be burned-out on politics, but now - more than ever - is the time to plan for your political future.

It retains the caucus system and thus continues to disenfranchise more than a hundred thousand Utahns who are serving their church as missionaries, their country in the military, or who are disabled, working at night, or traveling.

Kids jockey to hang up coats. A girl sits crumpled on the floor, crying, and a boy hides behind a chair, protesting, "I don't like kindergarten."

Utah lawmakers passed a bill adding $168 million to the state's public education fund and a bill excluding home-school kids from completing the state's education requirements.

As the legislative version of the Count My Vote initiative is signed into law, we should reflect on its meaning.

A proposed tweak in state law could go a long way toward making electric vehicles, which typically travel no more than 80 miles between charges, a more practical option for Utah drivers.

The Utah House voted Monday in favor of a bill that allows the State School Board to restrict the state funding of a local school district that receives unapproved grants from the federal government.

The personal identifying information of 1.5 million Utah voters, minus that of the Governor Herbert and former Lt.

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Utah's unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in more than five years, according to new figures from the Department of Workforce Services.

Late last month, a historic moment in Utah's LGBT history took place when more than 20 state officials and legislators met with LGBT people who shared their personal stories of discrimination in the state.

If the political parties adopt the reforms in the "compromise legislation" - approved by Count My Vote and passed by the Legislature - the change in how parties pick their nominees will be very significant.

Six months ago, Wyoming native Michael Brockbank was living in sunny Fort Myers, Fla., working in a friend's private business while searching for full-time work.

Officials are warning Utahns to be wary if they get an email, phone call or solicitation through social media regarding what's happening in Ukraine.

A state-administered fund for cleaning up leaks from underground petroleum tanks is at risk of insolvency because of its "one-size-fits-all" premium schedule, according to recent legislative testimony.

Utah legislators have killed a proposal that could have made their state the first to raise the age for legal tobacco purchases to 21. The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Stuart Reid, had urged support for the measure so Utah could "set the example and make a statement to the nation."