SALT LAKE CITY — For the fifth year in a row, a bill has been introduced at the Utah legislature proposing a statewide law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual identity or orientation. In … more

BILLINGS, Mont. — What happened to bear 726? That’s the number researchers assigned to a collared grizzly bear that disappeared from an agricultural research station along the Montana-Idaho … more

DENVER — NORAD headquarters in Colorado were evacuated for about 4 1/2 hours Thursday after employees found five suspicious packages, but the command’s control room team was working at a backup … more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has become the first state to have its so-called fetal pain law banning abortions after 20 weeks struck down by the federal courts. The decision from U.S. District Judge B. … more

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah lawmaker has introduced legislation to keep minors out of smoke shops and to tax electronic cigarettes and dissolvable tobacco products at the same rate as cigarettes. … more

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — American Indian tribes have tried everything from banishment to charging criminal acts as civil offenses to deal with non-Indians who commit crimes on reservations. Ever since … more

BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the owners of Montana’s massive Colstrip coal-fired power plant, seeking to force the installation of more … more

HELENA, Mont. — Government officials are planning to transfer 63 Yellowstone National Park bison to a nearby research facility as the park seeks ways to reduce its growing population of the … more

DENVER — A bill to erase the crime of adultery from Colorado’s law books faces a test Wednesday in the state Senate. The crime is rarely enforced, and repealing it has passed the Senate … more

SALT LAKE CITY — The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City says several employees from a Catholic school in Toelle are now on administrative leave because of allegations that they drank alcohol during … more