Utah News

House Majority Leader Kevin Garn admitted as the Legislature adjourned Thursday night to a nude hot tubbing incident with a teenage girl 25 years ago.

Backers of a contentious push to amend Utah's Constitution to ban affirmative action have abandoned the fight this year, unable to swing four Republican holdouts in the House.

A 69-year-old Willard man was killed in an ATV accident in Idaho Wednesday night.

Utah's freshly renovated state Capitol is a piece of living history, completed in 1916.

With the exception of one house member who said he had philosophical differences with junior colleges being absorbed by four year institutions, the Utah State House of Representatives voted to merge the College of Eastern Utah and Utah State University into one school on Thursday morning.

PROVO - Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son was remembered at a funeral service Monday with fond words, laughter and music from his famous singing family.

Despite criticism that its language is full of "fiery rhetoric and inflammatory," a majority of lawmakers in both the House and the Senate passed resolutions Monday that say no to the creation of any more national monuments in Utah.

Top Republicans have harsh words for a leaked Republican National Committee document containing images skewering President Obama and other leading Democrats.

Former Alpine District superintendent Steven Baugh is making a second run for Utah House District 58.

Funeral services held Saturday morning for 19-year-old, Lance Corporal Carlos Aragon who died Monday in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan.

A 40-year-old Payson man has been convicted on 56 felony counts in a sex abuse case involving five boys.

The tax on a pack of cigarettes would increase by about $1 under a bill passed by the Utah Legislature on Friday.

The Utah House of Representatives recently enacted a law that would enable the state to seize federal land using its power of eminent domain [HT: Edward Lopez]: Long frustrated by Washington's control over much of their state, Utah legislators are proposing a novel way to deal with federal land - seize it and develop it.

One crew member remained in critical condition Thursday and another crew member's condition improved after a Coast Guard helicopter crashed in the Utah mountains.The helicopter with five aboard crashed Wednesday morning as the crew was headed back to its base in Elizabeth City, N.C., after providing security support for the Winter ...

The 19-year old was killed in a roadside bomb attack. The Marine Corps lance corporal, Carlos A. Aragon died in the southern province of Helmand, Afghanistan.

SALT LAKE CITY - Six water companies in Utah have been listed as noncompliant with the state's Water Conservation Plan Act.

State crews in Utah hope to burn about 300 acres infested by an invasive reed near the shore of the Great Salt Lake.

More than a dozen states have formed an alliance to battle dismal college completion rates and figure out how to get more students to follow through and earn their diplomas.

Two bills to overhaul the state's retirement system cleared the Utah Legislature on Monday.

Court papers filed in an Arizona criminal case say a Utah sheriff's office is investigating allegations that false testimony was provided during the 2007 criminal trial of polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs.