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Defense lawyers for a college student who disrupted the auction of oil and gas drilling leases on land around some of Utah's national parks outlined in court papers Monday a plan to put global warming on trial instead of their client.
Closing Utah state offices on Fridays has delivered an unexpected bonus: a big saving on overtime pay.
A few months ago, the family of Everett Ruess, an idealistic young artist who vanished on a wilderness journey in 1934, was ready to accept his grim fate — that he had been killed by Indians.
Closing Utah state offices on Fridays has delivered an unexpected bonus: big savings on overtime pay.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of President George Bush to favor oil companies in oil-shale leasing.
The phase-out of the space shuttle program brought 550 layoffs on Tuesday to a Utah company that makes the booster rockets.
The Utah father of Elizabeth Smart said he's horrified by the parallels between the latest abduction story to grip the nation and his own daughter's long journey with an alleged kidnapper.
A mechanical failure forced a NASA contractor on Thursday to call off the first test firing of the main part of NASA's powerful new moon rocket.
Judges have begun approving payouts from a multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from the collapse two years ago of a Utah mine that entombed six miners and led to three rescuers' deaths.
A major Southwest dealer is surrendering a vast personal collection of ancient artifacts in another break in the federal investigation of looting and grave robbing in the Four Corners region.
Brian Wixom's company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only to never put a rig in the ground.
Federal authorities in charge of the nation's biggest bust of artifact looting and grave-robbing are targeting more suspects ranging from those who do the digging to wealthy buyers in the lucrative black market of ancient Southwest relics.
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday alleging a law firm arranged thousands of fraudulent visas for foreign workers at Utah companies.
A federal appeals board has cleared the way for oil and gas drilling around prehistoric ruins in southern Utah.
Any doubt that remains found in the Utah wilderness were those of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, seemed to be erased by a battery of forensic and genetic tests a few months ago.
Two years after a Utah mine collapsed, entombing six miners more than 2,000 feet under a mountain and also killing three members of a rescue team, the state's coal operators are backing away from rich coal reserves held deep under the ground.
Bush administration officials pushed aside the National Park Service and sought to lease public lands for drilling on the borders of Utah's most famous redrock parks during their final days in power, a special report to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says.
Three drilling companies and officials in three Utah counties have filed lawsuits over Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to revoke oil and gas leases auctioned off during President George W. Bush's administration.
In a highly unusual bankruptcy outcome, the developer of a luxury golf community near Park City bought it back for pennies on the dollar Friday because the leading creditor was unable to scrap together a bid and nobody else was interested.
A college student was charged with two federal felonies Wednesday for what he claims were acts of civil disobedience — making false bids to run up auction prices on oil and gas parcels on public land near Utah's national parks.
Credit Suisse is unable to raise the money needed to bring a gated community near Park City out of bankruptcy.
Bids at a government oil-and-gas lease auction Tuesday were few and stingy as participants blamed depressed fuel prices for their lack of interest — and fumed about the sabotage of the previous land sale.
A half-built private development of multimillion-dollar homes emerged from bankruptcy troubles on Thursday.
In a second reversal of the Bush administration, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he is scrapping leases for oil-shale development on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Many parents would love to be able to give their teenagers a cell phone that couldn't be used while driving. Now some inventors say they have come up with ways to make that possible, but they appear to be relying on wishful thinking.
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