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A three-day enforcement effort by the Utah Highway Patrol and the Department of Public Safety netted hundreds of pounds of marijuana and hundreds of thousands of dollars being seized along I-80 in Summit County. From Monday afternoon through Thursday morning, 15 troopers with the UHP Interdiction Team worked a special enforcement effort along I-80 looking for drug traffickers...

This Halloween season, the Utah Highway Patrol is asking everyone to leave the dangerous driving for the witches on brooms and commit to sober driving Halloween night and every night. To help make sure everyone makes it home safely, law enforcement officers throughout the state will be working over 230 extra shifts to deter, detect and remove impaired drivers from Utah’s roads, according to UHP. U

A Pennsylvania man is being held in the Iron County jail without bail after he was caught with a massive amount of meth. A Utah Highway Patrol trooper made the discovery this week during a traffic stop on Interstate 15. During a search of the man's car, the trooper found a hidden compartment behind the back seat that reportedly contained 47 packages of meth weighing nearly 86-pounds...

Three men were arrested Sunday after troopers with the Utah Highway Patrol discovered over 2000 THC cartridges during a traffic stop. Court documents show Majed Ali Hassan, 21 from Missouri was driving on I-15 around 7 p.m. when troopers noticed he was driving too closely to another vehicle. ...

UPDATE: As of 11:30 a.m. Saturday there were still 13 people in the hospital. 11 of them are at Dixie Regional Hospital. Five of the patients are still critical, five are in serious condition and one has been discharged. Intermountain Utah Valley Hospital still has two patients, both in serious condition **********************************************************************************************

State lawmakers may bring back required safety inspections for cars in Utah, two years after the Legislature got rid of them. The Utah Highway Patrol presented data to lawmakers yesterday, showing that the number of equipment enforcements is up by ten-thousand cases this year alone...

Drivers in Southern Utah can expect to see a huge increase in DUI enforcement heading into Labor Day weekend. ABC4 News went on a ride-a-long with Utah Highway Patrol troopers who said they’ll be paying special attention to certain areas along Interstate 15, including near Cedar City where several recent DUI crashes took place. S...

Utah Highway Patrol troopers conducted two traffics stops that resulted in the seizure of 61 pounds of methamphetamine and as many as 1,000 oxycodone pills. A trooper stopped a vehicle traveling eastbound on Interstate 70 in Emery County for traffic violations around 8:30 a...

A Utah Highway Patrol Trooper came across a man and women involved in a motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon. Officials with the Utah Highway Patrol say at around 11:49 a.m., a male rider and a female passenger on a motorcycle were traveling eastbound on SR-6 near milepost 146, about 5 miles east of Eureka...

Five people have been arrested in the past month after Utah Highway Patrol troopers seized 50 pounds of methamphetamine in two separate busts along I-15 near Cedar City in the past month. On Sunday, a UHP trooper pulled over a driver for a minor traffic violation after noticing the license plate light was not functioning and observed two open beer cans in the vehicle...