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Proving the capability of high-tech military balloons will require buzzing drones, jets and an occasional unarmed surface-to-air missile.
Prosecutors in a Utah city will file negligent homicide charges against an exterminator who applied rodent poison that was later linked to the death of two young girls.
Before wind energy developers come calling on southern Utah, biologists there hope to learn about how it might affect the greater sage grouse.
The skies over the Utah desert are becoming the test site for a new fleet of hulking high-tech dirigibles the U.S. military is hoping will provide battlefield commanders a bird's-eye view of cruise missiles and other threats.
Federal officials have moved quickly to clamp down on the use of potent rodent-killing pesticides after one was linked to the deaths of two Utah girls earlier this year.
A rash of drive-by BB gun shootings in the suburbs around Salt Lake City has left police and more than two dozen victims wondering who is carrying out the apparently random attacks.
Saving Utah's endangered June sucker may require moving a river.
A suspicious substance found at an IRS building in Ogden, Utah, on Monday is not hazardous, an official with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said.
Fossils of a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur have been found in slabs of Utah sandstone that were so hard that explosives had to be used to free some of the remains, scientists said Tuesday. The bones found at Dinosaur National Monument belonged to a type of sauropod — long-necked plant-eaters that were said to be the largest animal ever to roam land.
The American pika isn't heading for the endangered species list, but federal scientists said there's no question it bears watching as the West warms in the coming decades.
A steel mailbox-sized bin in the lobby of a police department in northern Utah was full again, crammed with half-full prescription bottles, over-the-counter cold meds and even an odd topical cream from 1983.
A thick layer of smog stubbornly lingering over parts of Utah has fouled the state's air so badly this week that health officials warned people not to exercise outside and some schools kept children inside for recess and sports.
Schools in parts of Utah kept students inside for sports and recess Tuesday after soaring pollution levels prompted state health warnings on driving and outdoor activity.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has postponed plans to round up about 185 wild horses from a western Utah herd.
An agreement signed Tuesday is aimed at safeguarding thousands of prehistoric American Indian drawings and carvings from truckers' dust in a famed Utah canyon near where a Colorado company wants to dramatically increase energy development.
A new program to pay farmers and ranchers to protect Utah prairie dogs on their land may help finally push the threatened animals off the endangered species list, according to organizers.
During a warm spell this fall, vandals hauled 18 decrepit televisions and computers down a narrow gravel road in Utah's picturesque Skull Valley, dumped them on a hillside, blasted them with guns and left them for dead.
Two men have pleaded guilty to trying to steal 600 pounds of wildflower seed pods in Utah's Zion National Park in hopes of a payday on the commercial market.
The Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed.
A plan to pull 5 million pounds of unwanted carp from a Utah lake each year — one of the largest such attempts in the country — got initial backing Thursday from a federal wildlife agency.
Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren't bothering to show up for auctions.
Surveillance camera video shows a 100-foot fireball ripping through a Utah refinery during a gas explosion that knocked a nearby home off its foundation earlier this month.
Federal officials say they'll look into complaints by the animal rights group PETA about the treatment of animals at University of Utah research facilities.
Utah regulators on Thursday approved a nearly $520,000 settlement over environmental violations at the state's only large-scale incinerator for hazardous waste.
Parts of a remote central Utah canyon decorated with ancient Indian art are being nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.
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