State lawmakers could ask U administrators to cut the school's budget by up to $8 million in an attempt to plug the state's $350 million budget deficit.

The Hinckley Institute of Politics will not release the results of the straw poll until Monday. The results were originally scheduled to come out Thursday.

The U's VoteProject has registered almost 2,500 new voters on campus since Fall Semester began.

The newly refurbished University Kids Center, now owned and operated by the Children's Creative Learning Centers Inc., will celebrate its grand opening today.

As part of the U's internationalization effort in 2008, two students were sent to an annual forum in China to discuss economic and political changes.

Sen. Joe Biden assured the National Jewish Democratic Council on Tuesday that the Obama-Biden ticket is committed to Israel, and urged Jewish-Americans to ignore smear tactics suggesting Obama is Muslim.

Former Utah Gov. Olene Walker personally feels the effects of Utah's poor air quality. At a forum held Wednesday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics, Walker said she has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis8212;a disease in which air quality is a factor.

The number of medical students graduating in primary care, which includes family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, has dropped over the past 10 years. However, the U saw a rise in the number of medical students interested in primary care from 2007 to 2008.

By Michael McFallSuspicious smellCampus police suspect a freshman of possessing marijuana. A Resident Adviser in the Gateway Heights Residence Halls called the police Friday when students were complaining...

In a time of economic upheaval, high energy costs and an unpopular war, Utah remains as conservative as ever, panelists said Wednesday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics.