Utah Government News

In dividing its fat budget pie, the federal government spends less per resident in Utah than it does in any other state except Nevada, according to data the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.

A big majority of Senators - including Utah's Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch - backed the $700 billion bailout Wednesday, putting more pressure on the fractious House to fall in line.

Utah's liquor laws are being both hotly criticized and defended. Monday, the DABC held a huge public hearing on how booze is sold here.

The Utah Department of Health says it will soon begin a yearlong study into why record numbers of people are dying from prescription drug overdoses.

Child-welfare authorities say an infant taken cross-country by her mother in violation of a custody order has been safely returned to Utah.

A convicted sex offender fighting the state over his Internet screen names has won the right to remain anonymous.

The state Department of Health has issued fish consumption advisories for six fishing areas because of elevated levels of mercury in the waterways.

A federal judge says Utah's law requiring sex offenders to reveal their Internet screen names and passwords violates the rights of one offender.

As nurse Pat Kane watches the operation on a video monitor, Dr. Majid Moshirfar , with the assistance of surgical technician Matt Newman, performs the first artificial Cornea transplant in Utah.

Laura Milliken Gray, a Utah lawyer and gay-rights activist, packs her house in Sugarhouse to move to England.

The global financial crisis could take a toll on Utahns in the form of lost jobs.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress voiced their complaints Tuesday about a Treasury Department plan to bail out distressed financial firms, saying it is too big, hands over too much authority and is moving ...

Stock controller Kareem Spencer retrieves goods at an Overstock.com warehouse at 3800 W. 955 South in Salt Lake City on Wednesday.

As a member of the Health and Human Services Sub-Appropriations Committee, I just now received an email from Lisa Michelle Church, Director of Human Services.

In an effort to vilify the legal act of smoking, anti-tobacco groups in Utah are pushing a $2 per pack cigarette tax, with the help of very provocative and misleading statistics on health care costs.

Utah's Medicaid preferred prescription drug list in its first year has reduced spending by nearly $546,000, but the savings fell about $2.75 million short of original estimates by the Utah Department of Health ...

Utah child health care may be in trouble. Utah's health-care-reform plan is sick, and poor children may feel the pain.

Attention Utah smokers: a pack of cigarettes may soon pack a wallop at the cash register.

Utah philanthropist kicks in $1M to fight California gay-marriage ban With the LDS Church prodding its members to give of their "means and time" to help eliminate same-sex marriage in California, many Utahns ...

Medicaid's new list of preferred drugs has saved Utah money, but not as much as expected.