A mysterious metal monolith found in the remote desert of the western United States, sparking a national guessing game over how it got there, has apparently disappeared, officials said. The Bureau of Land Management in Utah said Saturday it had received "credible reports" that the ...
Space oddity? Monolith in Utah desert mystifies helicopter crew
They were on a mission to count sheep when they found something they had not counted on. As a Utah helicopter crew buzzed over the southeastern part of the state looking for big horn sheep last week, sitting beneath them in the middle of the ...
Two Japanese dead, one injured after fall at Utah's Arches National Park
Two Japanese in their 60s died Friday after falling at Arches National Park in Utah, the consulate-general of Japan in Denver said. Another Japanese in his 30s who was accompanying them was injured and taken to a hospital. Local police said the accident occurred near the ...
Utah teens steal propeller plane, fly it low over highway before landing at regional airport
Two teenagers stole a small plane in a rural area of eastern Utah on Thursday, flying it at low altitude over a highway and landing at a regional airport before being arrested, officials said. The teens, ages 14 and 15, took the single-engine propeller aircraft ...
A Utah man was taken into custody on Wednesday as a suspect in the investigation of letters sent to Pentagon officials and President Donald Trump that were initially feared to contain the poison ricin, a law enforcement source said. William Clyde Allen III was arrested ...
Drought creates perfect storm for wildfires across western U.S.
Bigger and more "explosive" wildfires are raging across the U.S. West, with the area burned in Colorado already four times the size of last year's total, as rising temperatures, drought and a buildup of forest fuels supercharge blazes. So far this year 3.3 million acres ...
Utah national monument land Trump halved to give back to America set to be mined by Canadian firm
The red sandstone vistas in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument may soon be criss-crossed with dumptrucks after a Canadian mining company announced plans to begin operations on land cut from federal protection by President Donald Trump. Vancouver, British Columbia-based Glacier Lake Resources Inc. announced last ...
U.S. Interior chief halts second federal oil lease sale after local outcry
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Monday announced he has postponed a second federal oil and gas lease sale planned for March in less than a week in response to local opposition to the possibility of drilling near national parks and monuments. Zinke took to ...
Mitt Romney, seen as GOP Senate hopeful, successfully treated for prostate cancer in 2017: source
Republican Mitt Romney, strongly considering a run for a U.S. Senate seat from Utah, underwent successful treatment for prostate cancer last year, a source close to Romney said on Monday. Romney, who lost the 2012 U.S. presidential race to Barack Obama, was treated surgically by ...
Utah's vegetarian dinosaurs 75 million years ago also fancied a side of crabs, petrified poop shows
Some plant-eating dinosaurs apparently liked a side order of crabs to go with their usual salad. Scientists said on Thursday fossilized dung thought to have come from herbivorous duck-billed dinosaurs that inhabited southern Utah 75 million years ago contained pieces of crustacean shells along with ...
