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Republican Celeste Maloy wins Utah special election to replace her former boss US Rep. Chris Stewart

Republican Celeste Maloy wins Utah special election to replace her former boss US Rep. Chris Stewart

Republican Celeste Maloy has won a special election in Utah to replace her former boss, U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart. Maloy’s win puts a woman in Utah’s congressional delegation for the first time since 2019. Maloy was chief legal counsel for Stewart, who resigned in September after 10 years in Congress […]

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Small plane crashes in Utah’s central mountains

Small plane crashes in Utah’s central mountains

HUNTINGTON, Utah (AP) — The wreckage of a small plane reported missing on Friday has been located in the mountains of central Utah. The National Transportation Safety Board says the wreckage of the Cessna was found Saturday in steep and very hazardous terrain near Huntington. Because of the location, the […]

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Houseboats catch fire at popular destination Lake Powell on Utah-Arizona line

Houseboats catch fire at popular destination Lake Powell on Utah-Arizona line

More than half a dozen house boats momentarily caught fire at a popular boating destination on the Utah-Arizona line on Friday. The fire ignited while tourists and jet skiers stood by. The flames are now extinguished. Video from observers shows the decks of boats docked at Wahweap Marina on Lake […]

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Breakthrough proposal would aid drought-stricken Colorado River as 3 Western states offer cuts

Breakthrough proposal would aid drought-stricken Colorado River as 3 Western states offer cuts

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years. The $1.2 billion proposal is a potential breakthrough in a stalemate over how to deal with a rising problem that pitted […]

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Biden proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do

Biden proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — More than a century after the U.S. started selling oil leases on public lands, the Biden administration is seeking to let conservationists lease government property to restore it. The idea is stirring debate over the best use of vast taxpayer-owned property in the West. The proposal […]

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Utah judge to consider challenge to new abortion clinic ban

Utah judge to consider challenge to new abortion clinic ban

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah court on Friday will consider a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing a statewide ban on abortion clinics set to begin taking effect next week. The organization in a motion filed earlier this month argued a state law passed earlier this year […]

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2 empty suburban Utah homes collapse down hill; nobody hurt

2 empty suburban Utah homes collapse down hill; nobody hurt

DRAPER, UTAH (AP) — Two dangerously unstable homes in suburban Salt Lake City whose occupants were ordered to evacuate six months ago have collapsed down a hill. No one was injured when the unoccupied houses broke apart early Saturday in Draper. Officials say the homes had been in danger due […]

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Scientists: Largest US reservoirs moving in right direction

Scientists: Largest US reservoirs moving in right direction

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Parts of California are under water, emergency flood declarations are in place in Nevada, and water is being released from some Arizona reservoirs to prepare for a bountiful spring runoff. Climate experts say all the snow and rain over the winter months helped alleviate dry conditions […]

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Utah man Googled ‘Gunshot in a house’ before murder-suicide

Utah man Googled ‘Gunshot in a house’ before murder-suicide

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who fatally shot his wife, her mother and their five kids before turning the gun on himself had done online searches about how loud different guns sound and whether neighbors could hear gunshots five days before the killings, according to court records. […]

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Utah police witnessed drive-by shooting, arrested teenagers

Utah police witnessed drive-by shooting, arrested teenagers

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police said that officers witnessed a drive-by shooting Saturday before pursuing the involved vehicle and arresting three teenagers. Nobody was hurt in the shooting or consequent arrests, police said. One of the vehicle’s passengers, a 14-year-old girl who was not arrested, was […]

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