Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, announced this week that it is considering changing its name in response to a petition by local citizens. The petition claims that the word “Dixie” is offensive due to its ties to the southern states in the Confederacy. According to the university, the word Dixie “represents the rich pioneering heritage of sacrifice, determination and generosity of our early settlers.”
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) declared a state of emergency on Thursday after demonstrators in Salt Lake City clashed with police following the district attorney clearing officers involved in the shooting death of 22-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal.
Two suspects were arrested Tuesday night in connection with the shooting of a motorist at a Black Lives Matter protest in Provo, Utah.
A protester in Provo, Utah, allegedly shot the driver of a Ford SUV Monday night, then hid his gun and continued protesting.
Vandals defaced a statue of Brigham Young at Brigham Young University over the weekend. The vandals dumped red paint on the state and painted the word “racist” on the base of the statue in large red letters.
Families worldwide worked together to help an 18-month-old boy named Wilson in Ecuador with Centronuclear Myopathy find a ventilator as finding ventilators worldwide have been scarce due to the coronavirus.
A 20-year-old woman was shot by police officers when she pointed a gun at them in Provo, Utah, on Thursday evening.
According to a recent report, search engine DuckDuckGo’s CEO says that federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions targeting Google’s overwhelming dominance of the search market.
A twice-deported illegal alien convicted of murdering a 31-year-old man in 2016 is set to be deported from the United States after serving only about four years in prison.
Rioters in Salt Lake City, Utah, beat a man, flipped his car, and lit it on fire after he confronted them with a bow and arrow during riots on Saturday evening.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), one of the Republican Party’s most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, responded to the president’s criticism of recent vote-by-mail initiatives by Democrat governors, claiming the voting system works seamlessly in his home state.
Burgess Owens, a former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety and Utah’s fourth congressional district Republican candidate, told Breitbart News Saturday that Republicans need to take back Utah’s fourth district to help the GOP “take back our country.”
A (very) young man identified as “Adrian” was pulled over by the Utah Highway Patrol on Monday. He was on his way to buy a Lamborghini.
Utah officials on Friday outlined plans to reopen the economy, relaxing many of the state’s restrictions by May 1.
A career criminal is accused of robbing and threatening to murder a woman at knifepoint after he was released from state prison thanks to a nationwide jailbreak push in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Utah’s Salt Lake City area on Wednesday morning, causing roughly 55,000 people to lose power.
A Utah-based diagnostic testing company claimed Monday that it has the resources to produce 50,000 Chinese coronavirus tests daily.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has won the Democrats’ Super Tuesday presidential primary in the state of Utah, according to a projection from the Associated Press.
Rich Middle School in Laketown, Utah, has gained national attention from a policy that forbids children to decline dances with other students.
A Utah paint shop designed a unique custom casket for “Hondo,” a police dog shot to death while apprehending a fugitive.
“How was your night last night?” Bloomberg asked as his crowd of supporters laughed. “Look, the real winner in the debate last night was Donald Trump.”
The University of Utah offered its students free “pleasure packs” ahead of Valentine’s Day, which even included lubricants and oral dams, as well as a delivery service straight to students’ dorm rooms.
A plurality of Utah voters found that they were less likely to vote for Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) reelection after he voted to convict President Donald Trump, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Speaking to Utah Governor Gary Herbert, Trump asked, “How’s Mitt Romney?”
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is a co-sponsor of Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green card giveaway bill, in part, because the state’s political and business establishment is betting that imported Indian graduates will jump start the state’s version of Silicon Valley.
Does a man of character appear on national television just so that the whole world can watch him climb up on a cross and nail himself to it?
Utah State Representative Tim Quinn introduced a measure on January 29 that would allow Utah voters to recall a United States Senator, one week before Romney announced his decision to vote to convict the president.
Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety Burgess Owens, who is running for Congress in Utah’s all-important fourth congressional district this year, has emerged as a cultural counterweight to the hatred that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has spewed for the last few years.
A teacher’s aide from Utah is in custody after being accused of inviting a 17-year-old girl and two boys to her house, supplying them with booze, and urging them to have sex with each other.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading the Democrat primary field in Utah, a Salt Lake Tribune/Suffolk University poll released Monday showed.
The U.S. Air Force launched a continuous wave of 52 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in a massive combat power exercise at Hill Air Force Base.
Police say a Tesla ran a red light in downtown Salt Lake City recently resulting in a fiery crash that critically injured three individuals. Authorities have not determined if Elon Musk’s “Autopilot” was involved in the crash.
Dancers of all ages from a Utah dance studio dazzled the stage with ballet, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, and holiday classics all to benefit a little girl in need.
Sheriff’s deputies in Davis County, Utah, delivered a Christmas surprise to a military family with a member serving in the Middle East this holiday season.
A Utah family’s packages stolen off their front porch were soon returned to them — apology included.
Ten governors representing their states, including three Republicans, have officially asked President Trump’s administration to resettle more refugees in their communities in 2020.
Freshman swing district Democrat Rep. Ben McAdams (D-UT) said Monday he will vote for both articles of impeachment.
Three puppies are now recovering from the cold after being rescued off a Utah mountaintop by a few snowmobilers.
A Utah teen who was the target of vandalism and bullying for years has been showered with support from local athletes and community members.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States was ready for war against the drug cartels, volunteering American forces to Mexico for the job.
