3 children rescued from sinking vehicle as family loaded kayaks

Authorities said a 9-year-old boy is in extremely critical condition after being trapped underwater for more than 10 minutes.

Mother arrested for DUI after picking children up from school

School staff said they tried to hold the children but the children escaped and jumped in the car with their mother.

Utah ruling allows transgender kids to play girls sports

Instead of an outright ban, transgender girls will now be sent before a commission that will determine on a case-by-case basis if their participation compromises fairness.

'We’re driving toward a cliff': Crisis looms without big cuts to Colorado River

Dire consequences could happen if states, cities and farms across the American West cannot agree on how to cut the amount of water they draw from the Colorado River.

Utah officials secretly looked into high school athlete's gender

A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete — looking as far back as kindergarten — after receiving complaints from the parents of two girls she had defeated in competition.

Deadline looms for drought-stricken states to cut water use by 15 percent

Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now just caked mud and rock as climate change makes the Western U.S. hotter and drier.

Deputies: Man trying to burn spider sparks Utah wildfire

The 26-year-old told authorities he saw a spider while on the mountain and attempted to burn it using a lighter.

Biologists' fears confirmed on the lower Colorado River

Smallmouth bass have been found and are likely reproducing in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam.

Woman, son she put up for adoption find out they work at the same hospital

A Utah woman and the son she put up for adoption more than 20 years ago have been reunited — and it turns out they have more in common than shared genes.

Man charged with physically, sexually torturing guinea pigs in posted videos

Samuel Webster, 18, of Utah was indicted on 23 federal counts of animal crushing and the creation of animal crush videos. Warning: Some of the details in this article are graphic.