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Park advocates and local officials say a reservation system is needed to deal with record visitation at Arches this year. But efforts to implement reservations have failed in the past.

During his monthly news conference Thursday, Gov. Spencer Cox underscored how bad the drought is in Utah and asked residents not to light fireworks.

June 19 is a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Utah is in the midst of its worst drought in decades. State officials have focused on that to explain the water shortage the state is facing. But experts say there’s more to the story.

One suggestion was to require testosterone testing. Another was to beef up enforcement of an existing policy. The idea was to balance “preserving female sports” and making sure transgender kids don’t feel excluded.

High-elevation forests in the Rocky Mountain region are burning more now than at any point in the past 2,000 years. That's according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

After their more than 3-hour meeting in Geneva, the U.S. leader said he pushed his Russian counterpart on human rights and other administration priorities.

Last summer, protesters were charged with felonies for painting the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office red. On Tuesday, four of the protesters pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.

Two DACA recipients reflect on the uncertainty that comes with being undocumented, as the U.S. Senate begins hearing legislation that could grant a pathway to citizenship.

Rep. Rex Shipp, R-Cedar City, is bringing back a proposal to ban people under 18 years old from accessing puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and gender affirmation surgery.

A federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire at the end of June. Housing advocates are worried that could put thousands of Utahns at risk of losing their homes, but say assistance is available.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it is committing money to scholarships for Black students as well as funding for humanitarian service in “underprivileged areas” in the U.S.