A Utah death row inmate featured in the popular book "Under the Banner of Heaven" after killing his sister-in-law and her child for resisting his polygamist beliefs inched closer to becoming the first American to be executed by firing squad in nearly a decade after losing his latest appeal Monday.

The Justice Department said Thursday that it will carry out executions of federal death row inmates for the first time since 2003.

A federal judge blocked three new abortion restrictions in Arkansas minutes before they were set to take effect Wednesday, including a measure that opponents say would likely force the state's only surgical abortion clinic to close.

Utah has chosen eight companies to grow cannabis for its medical marijuana program set to open next year.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah school district is paying $62,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after a junior high student was caught in a bus door and dragged about 175 feet in an alleged racially motivated incident. The incident occurred in February in West Point about 30 miles north of Salt Lake City. […]

The Utah Supreme Court has ruled a man who suffered a knee injury in a church-sponsored basketball game can't sue an opposing player over a common foul.

Taxpayer-funded family planning clinics must stop referring women for abortions immediately, the Trump administration says.

Applicants vying for a handful of licenses to grow Utah's medical marijuana will have to wait longer than expected to find out who has been selected.

The state recently opened the licensing process to out-of-state growers, a change that makes some locals who hope to secure a license nervous.

Just a week after insisting that he was "absolutely moving forward," President Donald Trump abandoned his effort to insert a citizenship question into next year's census.