The Utah Supreme Court ruled that district courts have the authority to adjudicate sex-change petitions and ordered a lower court to grant two transgender individuals’ requests to change their legal sex designations on their birth certicates.
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Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found.
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A Utah attorney sued the state bar association on Tuesday claiming it spent mandatory dues on political and ideological speech she disagrees with in violation of her First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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A conservation group says that the Bureau of Land Management rushed through a cultural and environmental analysis of an area that’s packed with archeological resources.
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Biological fathers in Utah will be legally required to pay half of a woman’s out-of-pocket pregnancy costs under a new law unique to the state that critics say doesn’t do enough to adequately address maternal health care needs.
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A Utah bill requiring content filters to be turned on by default aims to reshape the way the nation regulates the Internet, particularly for minors.
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Jen Shah, of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” was arrested Tuesday on federal charges for wire fraud and money laundering in a nationwide scheme that often targeted the elderly.
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Utah has pushed forward with ambitious plans to require porn filters on cell phones and tablets, appeasing conservative lawmakers’ ongoing campaign on decency in the Mormon stronghold.
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A member claims the church used members’ donations to build a shopping mall and bail out a struggling insurance venture.
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The appellate panel will decide whether disability discrimination led to Brock Tucker’s suicide while in solidary confinement in a Utah prison.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a student class action against Brigham Young University seeking a refund of tuition fees after live, in-person instruction was canceled due to Covid-19.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made good on its plan to move the June sucker — a fish found in Utah — from endangered to threatened, citing collaborative recovery efforts.
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A mysterious silver monolith that was placed in the Utah desert has disappeared less than 10 days after it was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep, federal officials and witnesses said.
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A mysterious metal obelisk found buried in the remote western United States desert has inflamed the imaginations of UFO spotters, conspiracy theorists and Stanley Kubrick fans around the world.
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Summer came to an abrupt halt in parts of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday as temperatures reaching into the 90s plunged by around 60 degrees in less than 24 hours, with a powerful surge of cold air from Canada unleashing snow and damaging winds in several states.
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Hispanics make up less than a quarter of Utah’s workforce but accounted for 73% of workplace outbreaks of Covid-19, according to research published Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Utah is among the many U.S. states battling a surge in coronavirus cases, but officials said Wednesday the Salt Lake City area is bucking the trend after the county issued a mandate a month ago for people to wear masks.
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The family of a 20-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah, man killed by police while on a 7-Eleven run appealed a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit during a teleconference with a 10th Circuit panel Wednesday.
Read moreJeff Burningham sued Utah Governor Gary Herbert in federal court, demanding to be put on the Republican primary ballot for governor because he was prevented from gathering signatures by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Republican state leaders in Oklahoma and Utah are facing scrutiny for spending millions of dollars to purchase malaria drugs promoted by President Trump to treat Covid-19 patients that many other states obtained for free and that doctors warned should not be used without more testing.
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