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The Utah Republican Party is opposing a citizens initiative that calls for an independent ethics commission and a code of conduct for state lawmakers.

The growing ranks of the unemployed already have drained this year's budget of a state-administered program that provides new-job training to people whose old professions may not return when the recession ends.

Another 4,500 Utahns lost jobs last month, increasing the state's unemployment rate to 6.5 percent in October.

A new report shows Utah has moved up from being the fifth to the second healthiest state in the nation.

Some of your favorite vampires are coming to Utah this weekend. Laurent and Caius from the movie Twilight: New Moon will be at Fashion Place Mall on Saturday.

Utah has the lowest number of cigarette smokers in the country, according to a survey showing that smoking rates nationwide have moved up slightly for the first time in 15 years.

It's not exactly a groundswell, but pockets of school board members are grumbling about changes to Utah's tax code that they say have robbed schools of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Eighty-nine House members sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to protect 9.4 million acres of red rocks lands in Utah while Congress works on legislation.

National statistics show that more women enroll in college than men, but in Utah, women remain a minority at many of the state's colleges and universities.

Utah is making strides in helping refugees from throughout the world settle in the state, but much remains to be done, the director of the state's Refugee Services Office said Friday.

As city-dwellers across Utah go to the polls today, they will be electing the politicians closest to their neighborhoods - mayors and city council members.

Charlie Black has seen the Great Salt Lake rise some years in the wetlands just below his family farm.

In spite of strong government encouragement, about half the people of Utah do not intend to get vaccinated for the H1N1 virus.

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One thing that has really intrigued me since I was elected to the Legislature is the various tax structures in our 50 states.

Utah students are doing such a good job paying back their loans that the state has been able to slash its default rate in half since 2005, according to a recent federal report.

The Park City Board of Realtor's Third-Quarter Report isn't the only news issued lately that seems to hint at recovery.

Saturday is national make a difference day, and at Liberty Park in Salt Lake, hundreds of people did just that by pledging to become organ donors.

Utah government's shift to a 4-day work schedule hasn't saved the $3 million in energy costs that Gov.

A controversial bill that could change how sex education is taught in schools was abruptly pulled from the Utah State Legislature's Health and Human Services Interim Committee on Wednesday, but that did not stall the debate.