It's been over four years since the new Utah State Prison's groundbreaking.

Utah is closing in on the final chapters of the yearslong, controversial saga of building a new prison from scratch.

Utah death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies is scheduled to be executed by firing squad just after midnight on Sept. 5.

The new prison is near 7200 West and Interstate 80 in Salt Lake City. The area, known as the northwest quadrant, is relatively undeveloped, and that presented Ambre with his first challenge.

The Utah Department of Corrections is now officially preparing for the firing squad execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, the 67-year-old inmate sentenced to death row for the kidnapping and murder of ...

The cost to build the new Utah state prison in Salt Lake City is expected to cost more than $100 million above the last estimate, and as a cost-cutting measure, it will now be smaller than the ...

The new Utah prison site — which sits on ecologically sensitive wetlands — created a conflict between prisoner safety and comfort amid swarming mosquitoes and the future of the Great Salt Lake ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Saturday that she directed her department to drop the case against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, who had been charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and other ...

Two Utah legislators who toured the state's new prison say they were encouraged by what they saw there despite staffing shortages.

SALT LAKE CITY — Costs are going up to build the new Utah State Prison and the new facility won’t open until 2022, state officials said Friday. At a briefing on the progress of the new prison ...

(KUTV)- Fresh cost estimate for the new Utah State Prison is nearly $700 million.“We are not just rebuilding our prison,” Paul Edwards, deputy chief of staff to Governor Herbert, said. “We ...

Staffing shortages proved to be the most pronounced challenge in the new facility. The Utah Department of Corrections has periodically struggled to attract and retain staff, and the prison ...