Utah News Archives

South Carolina is one of six sites the Air Force has chosen to host the new supersonic and stealthy F-35 fighter plane, U.S. Rep.

Casey Welch, from Irvine, teared up as he talked about the beauty of Utah Lake and how he wants to preserve it by not allowing a bridge across the lake.

The Utah Highway Patrol says a winter storm moving its way across central and southern Utah caused 51 crashes.

Washington County's top prosecutor says a police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man who refused to drop his weapon, which turned out to be a pellet gun.

On Sept. 5, 2008, Erica Knell was driving home to Park City when her car strayed off the road.

Thirty-year-old Kimble Han was driving a combat vehicle with another soldier, when they were hit by a roadside bomb -- both men died.

When Utah scientist Jim Steenburgh steps up to a legislative witness table this week, he will be the first climatologist ever to testify to state lawmakers about likely climate changes in store for Utah.

Utah's First Lady Jeanette Herbert, who ran a day care center for 23 years, says adults must be more aware of children and their needs.

A group of doctors called Thursday for Utahns and their leaders to take dramatic and immediate steps to address climate change, calling it "the greatest public health threat of the 21st century." The Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment unveiled an ambitious campaign to tackle the issue just as the Utah Farm Bureau Federation announced its own ...

Utah area developers open second NYPD Pizza location in Layton, Utah with numerous others scheduled to open in Salt Lake City region ORLANDO, FL, October 23, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Layton, Utah is the second pizzeria to open for prominent existing franchisees and developers Angelo Zullo and Jim Rodriquez in the Salt Lake City region of Utah; ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are outraged over hefty bonuses handed out to top managers of the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration - double what they get annually - given the state's tough fiscal times.

An official with the Davis County sheriff's office in northern Utah says there has been an explosion at Hill Air Force Base.

A man who came across a female mountain lion during Utah's deer hunt opener says he thought he was going to end up as the big cat's lunch.

A controversial bill that could change how sex education is taught in schools was abruptly pulled from the Utah State Legislature's Health and Human Services Interim Committee on Wednesday, but that did not stall the debate.

Environmental cleanup projects in two small Utah cities are the state's biggest winners so far of federal contracts awarded under President Barack Obama's stimulus program.

Approximately 40,200 people in Utah lost health insurance coverage in 2009 due to a rise in unemployment, according to a report issued today by the health consumer organization Families USA.

In the days before he died, renowned Utah muralist and painter V. Douglas Snow told friends he was not ready to retire his brush.

As state officials grapple with a possible $850 million budget shortfall for the coming year, advocates for Utah's cash-strapped families hope lawmakers will seek to increase revenue before they ax critical programs.

When the Red Rock Wilderness Bill was up for review by a Congressional committee last week, Congressman Jim Matheson and Senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett expressed their views concerning the measure.

Mitt Romney is not the only former governor with ties to the west, who has created a buzz.

Romney's morals rarely, if ever, came into question on the presidential campaign trail.

Will morality, marital fidelity and the law of chastity be an issue in the upcoming presidential election?

With rumours brewing that the Dirkmeister (former Idaho governor and former Boise mayor Dirk Kempthorne) is mulling a run for president, it is a good time to revisit some speculation that has been around for years.

Thousands of Utahns are finding themselves, for the first time, in Bankruptcy Court.

Utah's struggling economy and the accompanying high unemployment rate is exacting a bitter financial toll on the lives of thousands of the state's residents.

A Provo man has been charged with tax evasion and allegedly owes Utah $700,000 in taxes, penalties and interest.

Maj. Bernadette Brockman of Millcreek, left, stands in line with her children Hunter, 4, and Hannah, 3, at the clinic, waiting to receive their H1N1 vaccine.

The H1N1 swine flu virus claimed the lives of three Utah women over the last week, as the flu season gets off to a rare early start.

Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show Utah's unemployment rate rose from 6 percent to 6.2 percent from August to September.

October 14, 2009 9:23 PM EDT SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah man who fled the state after being charged with environmental crimes and later was shot after confronting law officers in Florida with an assault rifle was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday.

In the Utah Sex and Travel Guide "Sex and travel, marriage and divorce, hunting and civilization, real life beneath the veneer of lovely wives and children all the widening paradoxes of modern life are grist for the mill of cartoonist Calvin Grondahl's wickedly facile imagination," writes Paul Swenson of the Salt Lake Tribune. Click here for more info.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., center, talks with committee member Sen.

As GOP legislative leaders argue that "more transparency" in their public business is better than campaign donation limits or banning lobbyist gifts, it appears secret bill draftings are on the rise on Capitol Hill.

A bus carrying a celebrated Utah high school band swerved off an Idaho interstate and crashed on its side, killing an instructor and injuring multiple students.

Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon announced his decisionto deny Real Salt Lake professional soccer team's request for $35million in public funding for a soccer stadium site in Sandy.

A big thanks to Cedar City for providing Mutt Mitts at each walking trail for dog walkers to clean up after their pet.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert's spokeswoman says he is not going to take a position on whether the U.S. should ban the importation of foreign nuclear waste.

Enrollments are booming on Utah campuses, particularly among freshman. Dixie and Snow, for example are reporting their biggest incoming classes Cami Nelson, leads her creative writing class in discussion at the University of Utah on Monday October 5th.

Utah needs to step up its efforts to clean up the air in seven counties, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.

School district leaders are working to battle the H1N1 flu, from considering offering the vaccine in schools to supplying hand sanitizer and removing cloth towel hand dryers from restrooms.

Harlee Sandlin, 4, gets one of the first H1N1 vaccines, an aerosol spray, at the Weber-Morgan Health Department in Ogden on Tuesday.

But what can companies do when the 'green patrol' is glaring them down for passing out that pack of 1,000 business cards like its organic, sugar-free candy? Even worse, imagine the gasps when the patrol considers the carbon footprint left behind by companies still handing out that traditional brochure that opens to an 8.5 x 11 sheet of glossy ...

Fewer minority students graduated from Utah high schools in 2008 than in the year before, the State Board of Education was told Friday.

Sorry, but this is hilarious. Saturday night in downtown Salt Lake City and many people are talking about porn in Utah.

If Cory Damm was looking for a challenge, he has certainly found one. "We're going for a little bike ride, a little pedal around the block," Damm said with a laugh.

Oct. 2, 2009 - " Did you know that the Ute tribe manages one of the largest herds of buffalo in the United States; or that the Paiute have a strong tradition of female leadership; or that the Navajo Nation has its own president, vice president, and government apart from the United States; and that over 75 percent of the White Mesa population votes, ...

SelectHealth is aiming to double the number of children enrolled in its Premium Assistance Program to 1,000. Designed to help parents who can't afford insurance but make too much money to qualify for public help, the company's program for children can make SelectHealth Kids plans as cheap as $33 to $80 a month.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, cast his 12,000th Senate vote on Thursday, reaching a plateau that only 14 other senators reached before him.

The Obama administration withheld support Thursday for a bill that would designate one-sixth of all Utah land as wilderness, saying instead that it seeks to break a 20-year-old logjam on the issue by working out conflicts on an area-by-area basis through smaller bills.

A California man has been indicted on charges that he kidnapped a woman at knife-point in the Salt Lake Valley and forced her to work as a prostitute in three states before she was able to escape about a month later.

In Utah and more than a dozen other states, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday.