Author – The Durango Herald

Mysterious shiny monolith found in otherworldly Utah desert

SALT LAKE CITY – Deep in the Mars-like landscape of Utah’s red-rock desert lies a mystery: A gleaming metal monolith in one of the most remote parts of the state. The smooth, tall...

DATE: Nov 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah protesters face charges with potential life sentence

Charges enhanced under gang law

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Utah governor race has conservative coronavirus fault lines

SALT LAKE CITY – A few months ago, the crowded contest for the Republican nomination in Utah’s first wide-open governor’s race in more than a decade was about how to manage the state’s break...

DATE: Jun 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah passes new abortion rules as Legislature wraps up

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah lawmakers passed new regulations on abortion this year, including a measure approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature Thursday that would ban most abortions if ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah lawmakers get tough on porn, ease up on polygamy

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah lawmakers voted Tuesday to put new regulations on pornography and remove some on polygamy in separate proposals moving quickly through the Legislature in the deeply con...

DATE: Feb 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Forest ecologist helps refashion Barbie dolls as scientists

SALT LAKE CITY – When Nalini Nadkarni was a kid, she’d run home from school, climb into one of the eight maple trees in her parents’ backyard and spend an afternoon there with an apple and a...

DATE: Dec 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Jazz fan banned over taunting incident sues team

Racial taunts to Russell Westbrook caused commotion during a game

DATE: Dec 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Woman fights charges after stepchildren see her topless at home

SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah woman charged with a crime after her stepchildren saw her topless in her own home is fighting the case that could force her to register as a sex offender, pointing to...

DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah taps out on low-alcohol beer sales

SALT LAKE CITY – The first change to beer alcohol limits since the end of Prohibition nearly a century ago just came to Utah. The state became the next-to-last in the country to s...

DATE: Nov 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Utah man found guilty of running massive opioid ring

SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah man was convicted Friday of running a multimillion-dollar opioid ring that sent hundreds of thousands of potentially deadly pills across the country in a scheme that ...

DATE: Aug 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Court upholds new districts in Navajo voting-rights case

SALT LAKE CITY – A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld newly drawn voting districts in a Utah county after a judge had found the old boundaries amounted to racial gerrymandering and viol...

DATE: Jul 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah police say body of slain college student recovered

SALT LAKE CITY – The body of a slain college student has been recovered in a Utah canyon about 85 miles away from a backyard in Salt Lake City where other remains were found last week, polic...

DATE: Jul 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News