All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 14 2015 // A Utah judge has rejected a potential class-action lawsuit seeking millions in damages for hundreds people arrested for drunken driving by disgraced former state trooper Lisa Steed.In a decision made public last week,...
Apr 2 2015 // Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a bill that creates new statewide regulations for ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft while overriding Salt Lake City regulations that have left the company’s drivers with big...
Mar 25 2015 // Utah’s Republican governor has signed a bill that that would allow police to pull over drivers for not wearing seatbelts.The measure signed by Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday makes it a primary offense for drivers older...
Mar 2 2015 // A Salt Lake City, Utah-based company has agreed to pay refunds to consumers who purchased its weight-loss tablets to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed its advertising slogan, “Eat All You Want & Still...
Feb 24 2015 // A federal appeals court has ruled a Colorado couple can sue Jack Nicklaus over an alleged misrepresentation of the golf legend’s membership role in a $3.5 billion southern Utah luxury golf resort that went bankrupt...
Feb 20 2015 // Drivers who don’t wear seatbelts could be stopped by police under a proposal that has cleared the Utah House of Representatives.Republican Rep. Lee Perry of Perry says the bill that passed the House Tuesday will...
Feb 13 2015 // A federal appeals court says record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager can sue a Utah gun safe company that named a line of safes after him.The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Tuesday that the 91-year-old...
Feb 9 2015 // Utah state officials have seen what they describe as a sharp uptick in attempts to hack into state computers in the last two years, and they think it related to the NSA data center south of Salt Lake City.The increase...
Feb 9 2015 // The Utah Department of Transportation says 256 people died on roadways across the state in 2014, up 16 percent from 2013. It was Utah’s highest death toll since 2008, and it reversed a trend that saw fatalities drop...
Feb 9 2015 // The number of driver privilege cards issued in Utah to immigrants in the United States without permission hit a six-year low in 2014, state figures show.The 35,200 cards issued last year are down from a high of 43,000 in...
Jan 26 2015 // The Utah Department of Transportation says 256 people died on roadways across the state in 2014, up 16 percent from 2013.It was Utah’s highest death toll since 2008, and it reversed a trend that saw fatalities drop...
Jan 26 2015 // Dustin Wittwer has joined Dixie Leavitt Agency’s Cedar City, Utah sales office specializing in commercial insurance. Wittwer has a background in sales and experience working as a department manager at Scheel’s...
Jan 21 2015 // The number of driver privilege cards issued in Utah to immigrants in the United States without permission hit a six-year low in 2014, state figures show.The 35,200 cards issued last year are down significantly from a high...
Jan 8 2015 // Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah has no plans to join two other states in suing Colorado over that state’s legalization of marijuana.The Deseret News reported Herbert said that despite no current plans to sue, Utah is...
Jan 2 2015 // Uninsured drivers on Utah roadways can expect to have their cars impounded on the spot under a new law that took effect Thursday.Utah police have had the option to pull over an uninsured driver and impound their car since...
Dec 18 2014 // When news broke that the Utah Department of Insurance found that popular new benefits company Zenefits was not in compliance with state insurance law, and would have to alter its operation or cease transacting business,...
Dec 15 2014 // A Utah lawmaker is working on a bill proposing statewide regulations for ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft.Some say the smartphone app-based companies should follow the same rules as taxi drivers, including...
Dec 8 2014 // Motorists can drive a little faster on most urban interstates along Utah’s Wasatch Range.With a few exceptions, the speed limit was raised from 65 mph to 70 mph beginning today. The Utah Department of Transportation...
Dec 3 2014 // An administrative agency has again found itself at odds with free-market innovation. In this case, Utah’s Department of Insurance has demanded that a popular new web based human resources platform named Zenefits...
Dec 1 2014 // A Utah lawmaker is working on a bill proposing statewide regulations for ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft.Some say the smartphone app-based companies should follow the same rules as taxi drivers, including...