County commissioners are fond of keeping the weight off when it comes to their budget. But how they handle a crash diet is about to be seen. The state Tax Commission gave all counties in the state about three days to whack their budgets so that a portion of it can be redistributed to cities instead. The cause is traced back to incorrectly reported local option sales taxes -- a $9.3 million discrepancy statewide -- from January 2005 through November 2007.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A spokesman for Utah's top elections officer says turnout for the June 24 primary election was abysmally low.

Just because your car is fast enough to outrun a police officer doesn't mean you'll get away scot-free.

Orem police responded to University Mall on Saturday after getting a report that a man was using a cell phone camera to take pictures underneath women's skirts.

Women in the coastal Tanzanian village of Boza make about $2 a day. But a group of Brigham Young University engineering students is helping them realize the earning potential of a natural resource that's all around them: the ubiquitous coconut.

The surviving victims of an accident that killed an Orem woman have been released from the hospital. Nicole Pereira March, of Springville, and her 1-year-old niece were released after a relative accidentally backed over them at a Bear Lake campsite near St. Charles, Idaho, on Saturday.

The progress of Wendell Gibby's legal battle with Mapleton City has hit the skids again, with both parties claiming the other has not lived up to its end of agreements.

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a Spanish Fork man who has been missing for almost a week.

Learn your math, young man! There are people in China starving for your job.

Last Friday, Ali Johnson went shopping for children's books. As a major gifts officer at Utah Valley University, buying children's books isn't usually part of her job description, but a donor had wanted to place hundreds of volumes for young readers in the family study room at UVU's new library, so Johnson went shopping.

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