LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury is back at work in the trial of six men who brought assault-style weapons to a standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014. A court official says jurors began deliberations at 8 a.m. Thursday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he may not finish his final term in Congress. Chaffetz told KSL Newsradio by text Thursday that he’s weighing his options and “might depart early.” He says the state of Utah needs to figure out how that would work. Chaffetz […]
Friends and family are gathering in Delta, Utah April 22 to hold a memorial service for Sgt. Brett William Nielson. Nielson passed away at the age of fifty following a tragic motorcycle accident near Kanarraville one year ago. He had served in the US Marine Corps during the Gulf War. […]
(St. George, UT) – Visitors to Utah’s national parks spent an awful lot of money in the state in 2016. A report from the National Park Service released yesterday revealed the more than 14-million visitors to the parks last year spent more than half-a-billion dollars on hotels and restaurants. All told, […]
(Cedar City, UT) – A Utah dad is getting a lot of love on social media after trying to reassure his daughter that it was okay that she wet her pants in school. Ben Sowards says his daughter called him in tears last week after the embarrassing incident during her kindergarten […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge has determined that there’s enough evidence against a former Utah State University football player accused of sexually assaulting seven women for the case to go to trial. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Judge Brian Cannell ruled on Wednesday that 23-year-old Torrey […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — A proposal that called for changing the name of the Navajo Nation to Dine Nation has failed to win enough support from the tribal council. Legislation proposing the official name change went before the council Tuesday, with only nine delegates voting in favor. The measure […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Much of Rainbow Bridge National Monument along Lake Powell in southern Utah has gained a new protected status. The National Park Service says 85 acres within the 160-acre monument have been designated a “traditional cultural property” due to the site’s historic and ongoing cultural significance to […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government’s bid to dismantle the police department in a polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border has been rejected by a judge. But the towns will still be under court supervision for the next decade as punishment in a religious discrimination case. Under orders issued Tuesday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s surprising decision not to run for re-election gives the GOP congressman a chance to avoid a potentially damaging re-election campaign and make a future run for governor while clearing the way for a number of ambitious Utah Republicans to try to […]
