SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dangerous water conditions are on the horizon in Utah due to recent snow melt. KUTV-TV reports the state’s rivers and streams will have about 20 percent more water in them on Wednesday than they did on Monday. The snowpack in the highest elevations is currently […]
SOUTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man found dead in an area of northern Utah ravaged by a tornado died of an accidental drug overdose, and not as a result of the severe weather. The Standard-Examiner reported Tuesday that 28-year-old Cody Lee Wills likely died before the September […]
(San Juan County, UT) – The Secretary of the Interior will be in southern Utah next week visiting the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Ryan Zinke will tour the monuments on horseback as part of President Trump’s ordered review of all monuments over 100-thousand acres that have been designated […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – The state Parks and Recreation Department is reminding boaters that “nobody is invincible.” That’s the title of the department’s new safety campaign trying to get everyone to wear a life jacket while riding in a boat or using other watercraft. State officials estimate about 80-percent of […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – The first woman to serve on the Utah Supreme Court plans to retire in November. Justice Christine Durham sent a letter to Governor Herbert yesterday saying she will step down this fall after 35 years on the court. Durham was also the high court’s first female […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The twin brother of a teenager accused of helping his friend plot to kill a 14-year-old girl says their parents’ divorce upset his brother and made him an angry person. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the boy testified Tuesday in Logan during the second day […]
(St. George, UT) – A driver is hospitalized after plowing through a Saint George yard and hitting a fence and trees. Police say the 26-year-old’s car left the road on Valley View yesterday and went through the front yard of a home before coming to a stop on top of the […]
(St. George, UT) – A term of no less than six years in prison is handed down to a LaVerkin man who sexually assaulted a mentally handicapped man in a bowling alley bathroom. A judge sentenced Dustin Olsen in a Saint George courtroom yesterday after denying his request for a new […]
The Manti High School Green Power car team took 4th in the Nation in their division in Indianapolis on Monday. The team built a battery operated car and had the opportunity to race at Nationals. The kids had won state 2 previous years and took 3rd place this year at […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Mormon Church is donating one-and-a-half million dollars to the American Red Cross. The Red Cross says the money comes at a good time because of the many needs required to deal with future disasters in the U.S. The church donated the proceeds from its […]
