Regulators have shut down banks seven banks in five states, bringing to 37 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday took over the banks: First Lowndes Bank, in Fort Deposit, Ala.; Appalachian Community ...

Utah's unemployment rate rose to 7.1 percent in February, the highest since 1984, the state Department of Workforce Services said Thursday. The figure means 95,300 people in Utah were considered unemployed — a figure that doesn't count others who have given up ...

Utah's House Republicans say it was appropriate for a state lawmaker to resign after he acknowledged he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about nude hot-tubbing a quarter century ago, when she was a minor. Majority Leader Kevin Garn resigned Saturday after telling fellow lawmakers about ...

Saving Utah's endangered June sucker may require moving a river. Federal officials this week announced they're in the early stages of planning a project to shift the mouth of the Provo River as it flows into Utah Lake. The idea is to create ...