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Utah's unemployment rate dropped in September, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Thursday. The drop is more than a full percentage point from a year ago, the latest indicator of...
A bill to preserve the land around Brigham Young University’s Y Mountain has cleared the U.S. House of Representatives.
A small painting by Douglas Snow sits in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, but no one knows who the painting belongs to, the state or is it part of a private collection?

SALT LAKE CITY — A bold, colorful website full of video clips asks:  “Are you part of the Crossroads Generation?”

It highlights unemployment rates and that student loan debt

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A new poll shows West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder is leading fellow Republican Mark Crockett in the race to become the Salt Lake County GOP mayoral nominee. A large number of voters are still undecided.

SALT LAKE CITY — Jon Huntsman may be taking a break from politics, but his campaign's secret weapons are still into it.

The "Jon 2012 Girls," Abby, Liddy and Mary Anne, are still tweeting and still pul

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One of the last fixtures of old Salt Lake City's Main Street has left and now has a new address.

SALT LAKE CITY — One of the last fixtures of old Salt Lake City's Main Street has left and now has a new address.

Sam Weller's bookstore — now called Weller Book Works — is open in Trolley

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A blowtorch being used to thaw a frozen pipe may have started a two-alarm fire that caused significant damage at a feed plant Monday.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Leonardo is a museum that's struggling with its image a month after it opened. Part of the reason may be because it's hard to describe.

"The easiest way to explain The Leonardo is

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