Trucks are guzzling ever more diesel, polluting towns and cities and fueling climate change. Germany thinks it may have found the answer by using overhead lines to power big rigs. A system that allows trucks to draw electric power from overhead cables went into operation on 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of the autobahn on Tuesday, according to the German government.
"We aren't looking for a choir of 360 soloists. There's a four-month choir school that's all about voice work to turn those individual voices into a choir."
It wouldn't be an ordinance or a law, but the Riverton City Council is set to discuss a resolution Tuesday night that would make an official affirmation of their cities support of human life and the rights of unborn children.
President Donald Trump awarded golfer Tiger Woods the nation's highest civilian honor on Monday, describing the 43-year-old as a "true legend" who transformed golf and then fought through years of injury to return to the sport's summit.
It's longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain.
The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne over the weekend for a big debut after five years of restoration. It then headed toward Utah as part of a yearlong tour to commemorate the Transcontinental Railroad's 150th anniversary.
Slang can be hard across any generational gap.
Baby boomers may have been confused to hear about an "airhead" in the 1980s or getting "tight" in the 1990s.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a policy update: couples who are married civilly can now be sealed in the temple immediately.
The depth and breadth of their training -- from sewing, cooking and first aid to skid-pan driving, self-defense and cyber-security -- means they are seen by some as a combination of Mary Poppins and James Bond.
They finish it all off with an old-fashioned dose of British etiquette, courtesy of experts from Debrett's.
Tinney Davidson gave her neighborhood 12 years of warm hellos. And now that she is moving to an assisted living facility, they got together to give her the sweetest surprise goodbye.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "massive attacks against terrorist elements" in Gaza will continue after militants in the coastal enclave fired approximately 600 rockets towards Israel. Speaking at the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday morning, Netanyahu said: "Hamas bears the responsibility not only for its own attacks and actions but also for the actions of Islamic Jihad, and it is paying a very heavy price for this."
A Salt Lake City homeowner was cleaning out her garage when she found what appeared to be an unexploded WWII bomb with Japanese writing on it. Officials were able to safely remove the devices and said that they posed no threat to neighbors or the community.
Scientists are hoping to better understand those results with a second bug flow experiment that started this month and will run through August. They found that releasing low, steady flows of water from Glen Canyon Dam over the weekend gives the eggs that bugs lay on rocks, wood or cattails just below the water's surface a better chance of survival. Otherwise, they might dry out and die within an hour.
The Utah Republican Party has a new chairman.
Former state legislator Derek Brown on Saturday easily defeated three other candidates in the race to succeed Rob Anderson, who did not seek-re-election to the post he won in 2017.
SALT LAKE CITY- The Mountain Dell Shooting and Archery group wants to take over the lease of the Hendriksen PMAA gun range near Parleys Canyon, but they say that plan is being stymied by “anti-gun” Salt Lake City leaders–something the city denies. The city owns the land the shooting range is on, which has been used […]
Facebook announced Thursday that it had designated some high-profile people, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who's notorious for using anti-Semitic language, and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as "dangerous" and said it will be purging them from its platforms.
A team of scientists has found human footprints that date back to 15,000 years which challenges the previous timeline and map of human migration into South America. Most available evidence held that humans did not reach the Patagonia region at the southern tip of South America until 12,000 years ago
A visitor to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park climbed past the metal railing, lost his footing and fell into the Kilauea volcano caldera, according to Ben Hayes, a spokesperson with the National Park Service.
Certain commonly used sleeping pills will now contain a new boxed warning alerting patients to possible serious or life-threatening behaviors that may result from taking these drugs, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday. The move follows several reports of rare but serious injuries and deaths resulting from sleepwalking, sleep-driving and other complex behaviors while sleeping, such as unsafe use of a stove.
