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U.S. Air Force warns against joke event to ‘storm Area 51’

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. Air Force has warned people against participating in an internet joke suggesting a large crowd of people “storm Area 51,” the top-secret Cold War test site in the Nevada...

DATE: Jul 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Conservative Utah lets women get birth control from pharmacy

‘I think five years ago, it wouldn’t have passed’

DATE: Mar 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Durango’s neighbor, Blanding, appears headed toward keeping booze prohibition

SALT LAKE CITY – One of Utah’s last “dry” communities appeared Wednesday on track to maintain its eight-decade prohibition on alcohol sales after voters rejected a measure to allow sales tha...

DATE: Nov 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Booze on the ballot: Utah dry town mulls allowing alcohol

BLANDING, Utah – The rural Utah city of Blanding, one of the last “dry” communities in the Mormon-majority state, will ask voters Tuesday whether to allow beer and wine sales in town for the...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Suspect in student’s death strolled library during manhunt

SALT LAKE CITY – An ex-con accused of killing a University of Utah student from China casually strolled multiple floors of a downtown Salt Lake City library about 15 hours after the fatal sh...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge: Election maps must be redrawn again for Utah county

Boundaries violate rights of Native Americans in San Juan county

DATE: Jul 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Friends, foes of national monument jockey for Zinke’s ear

Interior secretary touring sites in Utah

DATE: May 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Boats left high and dry by drought back on Great Salt Lake

SALT LAKE CITY – Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah’s drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters Thursday after win...

DATE: Apr 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Officials: Family stranded 2 days on Utah river is rescued

SALT LAKE CITY – A Colorado pastor and his family whose kayaks crashed into boulders on a rough southern Utah river spent two days a steep canyon waiting for help and subsisting on food retr...

DATE: Apr 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Pulling back the curtain

New law to end hidden bartending for some Utah restaurants

DATE: Mar 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Utah OKs nation’s toughest drunken driving limit

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah’s governor signed legislation Thursday giving the predominantly Mormon state the strictest drunken driving threshold in the country, a change that restaurant groups and...

DATE: Mar 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Coin toss decides city council seat in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY – Officials settled a deadlocked race for a spot on a city council in suburban Salt Lake City by drawing names from a pilgrim hat and flipping a coin – a decision-by-chance th...

DATE: Nov 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News