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A court battle opened this week over the future of four giraffes once owned by entertainer Michael Jackson. Officials are trying to get them evicted from their new home near the shores of Lake Powell.

A house fire in Layton displaced a family and caused thousands of dollars in damage Saturday.

The Silver Eagle Refinery in Woods Cross is temporarily shutting down because of findings by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) after the Nov. 4 explosion that damaged several nearby homes.

A smoky fire put LDS Hospital into a lockdown situation Thursday evening. A construction worker is believed to have started the fire while welding.

More than a dozen swimmers from two high schools got sick during a statewide swim meet. One high school principal says as many as 200 students from the 20 high schools that competed ended up sick. Health departments from two counties aren't sure how they ...

Many people are commending a man for being brave enough to protect his home, but Salt Lake City police officers see it differently. Don't take the law into your own hands, they warn, because the risks are too high.

A legislative audit shows that "double-dipping" by retired public employees has cost the state more than $400 million dollars in the last 8 years. I happens when an employee retires but goes back to work, collecting both a pension and a salary -- and ...

EnergySolutions is applying pressure to the state over the question of accepting depleted uranium at its Tooele County landfill. Company officials want to amend its current license in order to ship depleted uranium to Utah.

Spectacular new images of the universe have been released, and they were captured by a brand new observatory built for the University of Utah.

A disturbing trend is surfacing in Salt Lake City regarding some students' route to and from school. It takes them through stalled trains.

The news of the mass shooting at Fort Hood Thursday hit close to home for some Utahns. One family from northern Utah agreed to talk to KSL News and share what their solider told them she saw.

A longtime Midvale police officer, department spokesman Sgt. John Salazar, resigned Tuesday after he was cited for a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence. The citation came following an accident in Holladay on Halloween night.

In spite of strong government encouragement, about half the people of Utah do not intend to get vaccinated for the H1N1 virus.

A Vernal police officer was recovering from a gunshot wound Sunday. Police said the man who shot him was booked into the Uintah County Jail.

A Layton couple lost both of their cars just in time for their honeymoon -- one was wrecked a week before, while the other one was stolen the day of the wedding!

A young Mongolian woman is locked in a fight for her life, and she and her friends need to spread the word faster than leukemia cells multiply. She is already grateful for extraordinary generosity from strangers, but she needs more than $300,000 or the ...

Friends and colleagues are feeling the loss of a popular college instructor who died from flu-like symptoms.

A week and a half ago, Cpl. Joshua Rowell was fired for issuing that ticket. Stockton's mayor, Dan Rydalch, later changed that to a suspension without pay. But the council sided with Rowell and voted unanimously to give him his job back, along with back ...

The mayor of Stockton tried to fire a plice officer last wee for issuing his son a ticket. The officer told KSL News he was just doing his job. He said he acted professionally when he wrote the driver a ticket and was shocked when he was suddenly asked ...