(Iron County, UT) – More than 40 acres near the mouth of a popular canyon for hiking in Iron County are now in the hands of the Bureau of Land Management. The agency announced yesterday they paid 660-thousand dollars for the land at the trailhead of Kanarra Creek. The “Salt Lake […]
(Cedar City, UT) – Prosecutors are recommending between one and 15 years behind bars for a man who admitted torching six cars in Cedar City. Investigators say Isaac Wall had been upset about his upcoming divorce before burning six cars throughout Cedar City in the pre-dawn hours of January 10th. He […]
(Cedar City, UT) – A Cedar City man will be sentenced next month on a child abuse charge for beating three kids, including hitting one with a cast iron pan. Josh Kern agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors which saw them drop the severity of the child abuse charge to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials say a doctor imprisoned for drugging his beauty queen wife and leaving her to die in a bathtub may have killed himself. Authorities said in a statement Tuesday that they didn’t find “any signs of foul play” in their preliminary investigation, so they’re […]
MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a 51-year-old woman fell to her death during a hike near the Colorado-Utah border. Rose Zaldivar, of Eckert, went hiking near Paradox on April 2 and was reporting missing to the Montrose County Sheriff’s Office on April 6. The Montrose Daily Press reports family […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prospective home-buyers in Utah are struggling amid a shortage of affordable housing in a situation that mirrors a nationwide trend. Data compiled by The Associated Press from real estate websites shows that Salt Lake City’s housing inventory plummeted nearly 70 percent from 2012 to 2017. […]
HILDALE, Utah (AP) — A musician is planning a festival in Hildale, Utah, one of two towns on the Utah-Arizona line that’s home to the religious group known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Spectrum reports (http://bit.ly/2o4ncOr ) that the Colorado City Music Festival is scheduled […]
KAYSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Two Davis County schools were put on lockout for several hours after an official found the body of a man on school grounds who they say killed himself. The Standard-Examiner reports that a man in his 20s was found dead on the property of a junior […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and new national Democratic Party Chairman Tom Perez will stop in Utah as early as next week as part of a national push to unify Democrats in Republican strongholds and politically competitive states. Utah Democratic Party Chair Peter Corroon said Tuesday […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A coal mine operator says the price of its coal could be lowered through 2025 if a new buyer takes over the power plant it sells to. The Arizona Republic reports Peabody Energy officials are hopeful that new ownership would make the Navajo Generation Station profitable again. […]
