Another Snowdown has come and gone, leaving locals lethargic, bartenders beat, servers sluggish and revelers fried.Now 34 years old, the event continues to attract people to downtown and spark business during the winter season.

The stories came tumbling out of Roger Penningtons lips, each tale leading seamlessly into the next. Fueled by Mountain Dew and peanut MMs, the 56-year-old lifelong snowmobiler spun through tales of overnight rescue missions, a last-minute assignment to groom trails for dogsled races and several 17-hour trips across the peaks of the San Juan...

SALT LAKE CITY Federal biologists say a strip mine at the backdoor to Utahs storybook Bryce Canyon National Park will wipe out the southernmost population of sage grouse, even as their agency resists a broader effort to protect the bird across the West.

GRAHAM, Wash. Days after a judge ruled against him in a child-custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed Sunday when police said he intentionally blew up a house with all three inside a tragic ending to a bizarre case that began more than two years ago when the mans wife went mysteriously missing in Utah.

Obama Israel not set upon attacking IranWASHINGTON President Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a standoff that has the Middle East on edge.

When US News World Report debuted its list of Americas Best Colleges nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But arguably, theyve had a much bigger effect on colleges themselves.

BEIRUT The United States proposed an international coalition to support Syrias opposition Sunday after Russia and China blocked a U.N. attempt to end nearly 11 months of bloodshed, raising fears that violence will escalate.

LAS VEGAS Now its on to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine.

Durango native Paul Jose Quintana died Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, at his home in Albuquerque. He was 60.

When the Susan B. Komen Foundation announced last week its decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, the immediate and strong reaction was resoundingly negative as it should have been. The funding, which paid for cancer screenings, was not instrumental to Planned Parenthoods survival, but pulling it was a profound political statement about...