The mayor’s new 50-page public safety plan for Salt Lake City details 27 city actions and 23 recommendations that will need city, state and county collaboration.

In Idaho, a sheriff is raising his hand to help the feds crack down on illegal immigration. In Colorado, lawmakers are working to bolster laws to prohibit such collaboration.

Talk of deportations from President-elect Donald Trump and other elected officials have left many people scared, especially those who have deep roots in the country and have built lives, businesses and have children who were born here.

The program is a one-stop shop for naturalization with classes, legal support, child care and financial assistance.

Roessel, a former director of the federal Bureau of Indian Education and president of the first tribal college to be established in the U.S., has died. He was 63.

Progress has been slow, but Light Up Navajo, a program started five years ago by the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and the American Public Power Association, is making inroads on electrification.

Nationwide, nearly 17,000 homes on tribal lands still need electricity hook-ups. A majority are spread across the Navajo Nation, where climate change is making it harder for families to keep cool. A mutual aid program, however, has helped to change lives.

The constitutionality of released-time religious education was taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952. But it wasn’t about Utah or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Peyote, a cactus that contains mescaline, a hallucinogen, grows naturally in South Texas and northern Mexico. It is sacred to many Indigenous people, playing a central role in their ceremonies, spiritual practice and medicine.

Utah’s incidents of domestic violence are below the national rates, but advocates say any amount of abuse is too much.

Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch announced that an investigation has cleared the Navajo president of sexual harassment allegations by the vice president. Even as results of the investigation were announced Monday, Branch was removed from office by tribal lawmakers.

Utah’s unique adoption laws have attracted pregnant women from across the country to the state, according to a new Mother Jones investigation. Many are enticed by free lodging and cash stipends.