Associated Press

Hundreds of tribal leaders gathered in Washington this week for an annual summit where the Biden administration is celebrating nearly 200 new agreements to boost cooperation with the tribes.

A former LDS bishop whom a top church official said committed “sexual transgression” with his own daughter was excommunicated after making a religious confession. Recordings obtained by The Associated Press show that instead of helping prosecutors, the church used a legal playbook that keeps sex abuse secret.

All 12 Mountain West schools will be involved and Oregon State and Washington State will each play three home games and three road games against members of the conference.

Aiming to finalize back-to-back Winter Games hosts next year, the International Olympic Committee executive board has decided to enter exclusive talks with Olympic officials in France and the United States for Salt Lake City.

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal.

The Bureau of Land Management quietly posted a notice on its website last week that it will no longer use the M-44 ejector devices across the 390,625 square miles it manages nationally.

The Washington state Supreme Court has granted a request by the University of Washington and the Pac-12 to put on hold a lower court’s ruling that gave Oregon State and Washington State control of the conference.

Fervo Energy, the company partnered with Google, is using the Nevada pilot project to launch others, including one in Utah that will deliver far more carbon-free electricity to the grid.

Maloy’s win puts a woman in Utah’s congressional delegation for the first time since 2019. She was chief legal counsel for Rep. Chris Stewart, who resigned in September after a decade in Congress because his wife is ill.

Three debates for next year’s presidential general election are set to be held in college towns in Texas, Virginia and Utah between Sept. 16 and Oct. 9. Whether either party's candidate will participate, however, remains to be seen.

M. Russell Ballard was second-in-line to the church presidency as the second-longest-tenured member of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He died Sunday at age 95.

A group of advocates is calling out New Mexico’s Democratic governor for disbanding a task force that crafted recommendations to address the high rate of killings and missing person cases in Native American communities.