Utah history

Legal and historical experts say Utah will have to overcome centuries of precedent if the state is to be successful in claiming 18.5 million acres of land controlled by the federal government.

It’s been two years since Dixie State University became Utah Tech University. The school, however, has continued its annual tradition of repainting the hillside D in St. George.

“Utah's participation in the women's suffrage movement has been overlooked, and it's time people started paying attention to us,” said Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson.

The Fairview Museum of History and Art hopes clarifying the stories of the past will help strengthen their community as the county changes and grows.

Thousands of immigrant workers survived perilous conditions to build the transcontinental railway – a new monument wants to make sure we don’t forget about them.

In 1857, more than 100 Arkansas emigrants were killed in present-day southern Utah. The evolution of the site’s historical markers reflects The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ eventual reckoning with this dark part of its past.

As growth expands into the small towns surrounding St. George, communities tackle conversations about the sustainability of rural life.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has purchased the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio, along with other buildings central to its history in Nauvoo, Illinois. The sites were bought from the Community of Christ, an early offshoot of the American faith.

Urban wildlife might conjure images of pigeons, rats, raccoons or squirrels. But in the Poplar Grove neighborhood, something far more glitzy roams the streets.

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site has reached its limit on space and resources. It's now trying to raise money to showcase more of southwest Utah's unique paleontology.

The prison camp on an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp outside of Moab held 56 so-called troublemakers from other camps in 1943.

The FBI says an 18th century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought the painting during the Great Depression.