Ruins: Homes and cars destroyed by the Waldo Canyon fire are seen from the air in a Colorado Springs neighbourhood The devastation caused by Colorado’s Waldo Canyon wildfire is so severe that the burn scar is clearly visible from space, as a incredible picture clearly shows. The shocking photograph showing the worst fire in the state’s history was taken from Nasa’s Terra satellite on July 4th,... 

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, pictured to the right of the gas giant in the Cassini spacecraft view. Scientists have discovered methane lakes in the tropical areas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of which is about half the size of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, with a depth of at least one meter. The longstanding bodies of liquid were detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been... 

A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation that is circulating in the Kremlin today on the joint US-Russia military drills taking place next month in the State of Colorado says that the plans received from the Americans call for Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) during this strange exercise to “take and hold” the Central Intelligence Agencies (CIA) main facility,... 

Overview of Camp Williams site before the construction works began. UDC will be located on the west side of the highway, on what was previously an airfield The biggest-ever data complex, to be completed in Utah in 2013, may take American citizens into a completely new reality where their emails, phone calls, online shopping lists and virtually entire lives will be stored and reviewed. ­US government... 

Four in a marriage: Vicki Darger says that her husband has a 'higher purpose' Vicki Darger has a spacious home in the suburbs, her children attend public school and she couldn’t live without her Blackberry. Her life seems utterly unexclamatory. But, look a little further and it’s clear that Vicki lives a highly unconventional married life. Her husband, Joe, has fathered 24 children... 

Utah’s Mormon leaders, who in recent months have emerged as a force in immigration, say undocumented immigrants should be given a way to work legally in the United States. In a statement on immigration released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the leaders assail mass deportation, and depict immigration as a moral and religious matter. “What to do with the estimated 12 million... 

The volcanic plume of partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. Yellow and red indicate higher conductivity, green and blue indicate lower conductivity. Made by University of Utah geophysicists and computer scientists, this is the first large-scale 'geoelectric' image of the Yellowstone hotspot. The gigantic underground plume of partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone... 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Security Agency host a joint groundbreaking ceremony for the first Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative (CNCI) Data Center Thursday, at Camp Williams. Construction of the $1.2 billion Data Center is scheduled to be completed in October 2013. Thursday’s groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data... 

Utah State Representative Stephen Sandstrom has introduced an immigration bill which in some ways may be tougher than Arizona’s embroiled S.B. 1070, yet omits the “onerous” and “punitive” aspects of the bill. Rep. Sandstrom said he might be willing to bend on some minor points of the bill to improve its chance of passage, but will not compromise on allowing police to question individuals... 

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said on Twitter that he was instructing authorities to investigate if the list of supposed illegals had been leaked illegally by a state employee. Officials in Utah fear that a group of anti-immigration activists may have taken matters into their own hands. An anonymous group of “concerned citizens” sent a letter this week to newspapers in Utah containing more than... 

A massive storm buried much of the central United States in dangerous ice and snow Wednesday, stranding scores of motorists with massive drifts that shut down major roads and defeated plows. Strong winds created drifts as high as 15 feet (4.6 meters) as the storm dropped as much as four feet of snow (1.2 meters) in some areas, said Pat Slattery, a spokesman for the National Weather Service. “This...