Tesla has expanded its insurance program to Utah and Maryland, taking the total number of states where it is available to 11. Tesla initially launched its insurance program in California in 2019, claiming that it is up to 30 percent cheaper than competing providers.

A new Utah Court of Appeals decision recently came out that insurers may find helpful. The case involved an insurer, Truck Insurance Exchange (TIE), who declined to pay a UIM coverage claim after it was determined that the Plaintiff/Insured may have been at least 50% at fault for the accident.

A sandstorm caused a huge 22-vehicle pileup on a Utah highway that left eight people dead, including children, authorities said.

Firefighters remained on the scene Tuesday morning after a massive fire damaged five homes and an apartment complex under construction near 28th Street and Grant Avenue overnight.

Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is cracking down on unnecessary emergency room visits with a new policy starting July 1 that the American Hospital Association says will jeopardize patients’ health and threaten them with financial penalties.

A large cabin home in Duck Creek Village was destroyed in a structure fire late Sunday night.

An emergency generator caught fire at a data center in Ogden, Utah over the Easter weekend, causing the full shutdown of the data center and lengthy outages for customers.

As climate change contributes to ever-worsening fire seasons in the Western U.S., more people are moving to the very areas most likely to burn.

Toyota expanded a worldwide fuel pump recall to a total of 5.84 million vehicles for a defect that could cause the part to fail. In the United States, the total number of vehicles involved in this safety recall is now approximately 3.34 million vehicles.

A peach recall has expanded to include loose peaches and peach products after 78 people were sickened in 12 states by salmonella poisoning linked to the fruit, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

As Hurricane Laura bears down on the Gulf Coast, residents are preparing for what could be a historic storm surge.

A small plane crashed in a suburban Salt Lake City neighborhood, killing at least three people, police said. The crash happened Saturday afternoon when a Piper PA-32 aircraft carrying six people crashed into a backyard in the city of West Jordan, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer said.

Several people were displaced following a fire that blazed through a home and engulfed four vehicles early Saturday morning.

As expected, Hurricane Hanna made landfall at around 5 p.m. Saturday just south of Baffin Bay as a Category 1 storm. What was not expected was the size of its storm surge and the devastation it would leave behind.

It will take several days to clean up a big mess left behind by a runaway tanker that ended up in a resident’s backyard. But Salt Lake fire officials say they are very grateful no one was injured in the Wednesday morning incident.