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One state motor vehicle office will go back to a five-day workweek to improve customer service, although most employees will continue working four days a week, Gov.

A lot of people in Utah have keen interest in President Obama's Tuesday night announcement that he will send more troops to Afghanistan.

The tragic tale of John Jones is not the first caving disaster to captivate Utahns.

A new curriculum is in place this year to teach Utah students about American Indians in Utah.

Main Category: Litigation / Medical Malpractice Also Included In: Smoking / Quit Smoking News outlets report on a health care lawsuit in Massachusetts, a tobacco tax in Colorado and health plan ratings in Utah.

Without the oversight of an independent ethics commission, former state Sen. Karen Shepherd sees the Utah Legislature as a fox guarding a henhouse - "a serious conflict of interest." But unless Utah voters take action, nothing will change, Shepherd and other former legislators said Tuesday during a news conference in the Capitol rotunda.

The Utah Republican Party is opposing a citizens initiative that calls for an independent ethics commission and a code of conduct for state lawmakers.

The growing ranks of the unemployed already have drained this year's budget of a state-administered program that provides new-job training to people whose old professions may not return when the recession ends.

Another 4,500 Utahns lost jobs last month, increasing the state's unemployment rate to 6.5 percent in October.

A new report shows Utah has moved up from being the fifth to the second healthiest state in the nation.

Some of your favorite vampires are coming to Utah this weekend. Laurent and Caius from the movie Twilight: New Moon will be at Fashion Place Mall on Saturday.

Utah has the lowest number of cigarette smokers in the country, according to a survey showing that smoking rates nationwide have moved up slightly for the first time in 15 years.

It's not exactly a groundswell, but pockets of school board members are grumbling about changes to Utah's tax code that they say have robbed schools of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Eighty-nine House members sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to protect 9.4 million acres of red rocks lands in Utah while Congress works on legislation.

National statistics show that more women enroll in college than men, but in Utah, women remain a minority at many of the state's colleges and universities.

Utah is making strides in helping refugees from throughout the world settle in the state, but much remains to be done, the director of the state's Refugee Services Office said Friday.

As city-dwellers across Utah go to the polls today, they will be electing the politicians closest to their neighborhoods - mayors and city council members.

Charlie Black has seen the Great Salt Lake rise some years in the wetlands just below his family farm.

In spite of strong government encouragement, about half the people of Utah do not intend to get vaccinated for the H1N1 virus.

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