Utah

Mayor's proposals call for "walkable communities."

The Utah Supreme Court outlines the rules for annexing another county's land.

The state of Utah is "horrified" with the Goshute Indians’ plan to turn its reservation into the nation's nuclear dump.

A tiny tribe of Goshute Indians in Utah have offered up a plan to get rich quick by storing the nation's nuclear waste.

Daniel Burnham Award given to a grass-roots movement for creating a land use plan addressing environmental and econmonic concerns.

With Olympic crowds gone, downtown SLC is once again deserted. The City Council declares Main Street revitalization their top issue this year.

The Bush administration allows oil drilling near two popular Utah national parks. Officials say impact is minimal but scientists say recovery could take decades.

Utah's Governer Mike Leavitt is seeking federal protection and national monument status for San Rafael Swell in the desert of southeastern Utah.

Utah Transit Authority officials are using federal tax loopholes to sell the tax benefit of light rail to get funding.

Utah's high-income 'exurbs' are growing twice as fast as Utah's population.

Utah governor Mike Levitt called on the state's Growth Commission to come up with incentives for developers and cities to embrace smart growth, and to form alliances with farmers to get those incentives through the Legislature.

Utah's Supreme Court rules that a temple's soaring steeple can be built, despite zoning regulations and public protests.

NASA technology now streaking toward Mars to unlock secrets about the Red Planet helped map a not-so-mysterious spot: Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City expands its borders thwarting developers' plans.

Utah planners look at Maryland's 'Smart Growth' plan.

New tourist monuments don't always have the desired effect. In Utah, the new monument resulted in lost jobs.

Salt Lake City's Olympic organizers are planning on 95 percent of spectators to travel to Olympic venues in the own vehicles or rental cars.

Utah's controversial Legacy Highway raises a question faced by many regions of the West: as the booming economy accelerates development and sprawl, how do we want to grow?