The Utah Supreme Court dismissed a petition Wednesday brought by voters against the Utah Legislature fighting a last-minute law passed in a special session to replace a voter-approved medical marijuana initiative.
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The Utah Supreme Court ruled that part of a state law that prohibits same-sex couples from entering into “gestational agreements” to have a woman act as their surrogate is unconstitutional, because other childless, married couples are allowed to enter into such agreements when they cannot have children themselves.
Read moreRabbitbrush bloomed in abundance, casting a soft yellow sheen that extended out from both sides of the desert roadway. To the north, the carpet of wildflowers was broken only by distant hills along the horizon that wall in the Paria River Valley. The super bloom gave testament to the glut of precipitation that fell in Utah’s high desert this past winter.
Read moreThe Natural Resources Defense Council claims in a federal complaint that endangered cacti, sensitive shale soils and riparian areas are at risk after the Interior Department lifted a 12-year-old closure of off-highway vehicle travel on 5,400 acres in the Factory Butte area of Utah, without environmental review.
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Democrats and environmentalists vilified a Trump administration plan announced Friday to open up Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument to development in areas that once enjoyed protection.
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The 10th Circuit Tuesday approved new school board and county commission election districts for Utah’s geographically largest county, finding that a lower court properly sided with the Navajo Nation, which claimed that the old districts were unconstitutional.
Read moreSetting aside interim rates imposed by the Public Service Commission of Utah, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that the state lacks this authority and did so without substantial evidence that the related costs were prudently incurred or just and reasonable.
Read moreA filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to six years to life in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child.
Read moreRocky Mountain Wild brought a federal complaint over the government’s approval of 59 oil and gas leases covering 61,910 acres in northeast Utah without considering how the air pollution would affect Dinosaur National Monument and nearby areas.
Read moreA body believed to be a missing 5-year-old Utah girl was found Wednesday less than a block from her home, bringing a wide-ranging search to a grim close five days after the child was taken from her home and killed by her uncle, police said.
Read moreDNA has provided evidence that the 21-year-old uncle of a missing 5-year-old girl in Utah is behind her disappearance, police said Tuesday. Evidence also indicates the girl, Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, is hurt, authorities said, though they did not elaborate.
Read moreNine environmental groups sued Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt for granting rights-of-way across public lands to an Estonian oil company to build a giant oil-shale mine and processing plant, draining more than 100 billion gallons of water from the Green River in Utah’s Uinta Basin.
Read moreA road trip to one of the national lands the president is doing his best to desecrate takes you to a place that is vast, stark, empty and stunning.
Read moreA federal judge blocked Utah from enforcing a recently passed ban on abortions after 18 weeks late Thursday, a law the Salt Lake City District Attorney’s office said it cannot legally enforce.
Read moreUtah Physicians for a Healthy Environment sued the Department of the Interior for approving a lease to mine coal near Bryce Canyon National Park.
Read morePlanned Parenthood sued the Utah Department of Health in federal court Wednesday over a controversial law banning abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit ruled Thursday that one Salt Lake City man will be able to keep his bump stock when the Trump administration’s ban on the rapid-fire gun attachments goes into effect next week.
Read moreBeset by the impacts of climate change, a drought and increased water demand, the Colorado River Basin was already running near empty before the Trump administration approved a new deal allowing additional extractions from one of its main tributaries.
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