High Country News

Calling for a crackdown on polygamous crime

Crimes committed by a fundamentalist sect on the Utah-Arizona border needs to be seriously investigated by both the Mormon Church and those states.

by Ray Ring, Jun 10, 2012
FLDS continues abusive polygamist practices in Utah and Arizona

The states' failure to crack down on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints means abuses still happen, despite the conviction of extreme polygamist Warren Jeffs.

by Debra Weyermann, Jun 18, 2012
Forces of nature

Amy Irvine’s memoir, Trespass, describes how she moved to rural Utah after her father’s suicide.

by Sara Rubin, Apr 28, 2008
Going down in flames

Today, the mountain and Pacific states have the highest collective cremation rates in the U.S.

by Marian Lyman Kirst, Mar 04, 2012
Mormons win Martin’s Cove

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gains control of the Wyoming historic site of Martin’s Cove, where Mormon immigrants died 150 years ago

by Christopher Smith, Dec 22, 2003
Notes from a place of risk and hope

In Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming, Kevin Holdsworth describes his love for a harsh landscape in essays, poetry and fiction.

by Julianne Couch, Feb 05, 2007
Online: No more talking heads

Jennifer Napier-Pearce uses her own money to produce a Salt Lake City-based podcast called Inside Utah

by Laura Paskus, Oct 02, 2006
Saints speak out against nuclear waste

The Mormon Church has issued a statement opposing a planned nuclear waste storage site not far from Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation

by Allison Gerfin, Jun 26, 2006
The 'Utah solution' to immigration

Utah religious, business and political leaders suggest an immigration compromise, but the state's lawmakers are terrified of being caught voting for "amnesty."

by Sarah Gilman, Jun 28, 2011
The Gangs of Zion

Drawn to Utah by the Mormon Church, young Polynesians struggle to find an identity, and to escape from a seemingly endless cycle of gang-related violence

by Tim Sullivan, Aug 08, 2005