The Manti City Council voted on Wednesday night to increase electrical rates in Manti from 9.8 cents to 10.17 cents per kilowatt-hour. City Administrator, Kent Barton, stated that the proposed increase of 3.8% is a direct pass through of the rate the Utah Municipal Power Agency will charge its member […]
NEPHI, Utah (AP)-Per a report from ABC 4 in Salt Lake City, Nephi police are searching for a man wanted in connection with an armed robbery of a bank in the community Tuesday evening. Nephi City’s Chief of Police Michael H. Morgan reported Juab County dispatch received a hold-up alarm […]
Re: Eric Pratt resignation as Police Chief, leaving full-time law enforcement I am announcing my resignation as Salina City Police Chief effective December 31st, 2017. I’ve been honored to serve as a police officer with the Salina City Police Department over the past nearly 10 years, with the last nearly […]
Officials with the Iron County Search and Rescue Ropes Team and the Department of Public Safety sadly announced that they had located the body of a missing Cedar City man Wednesday. The ropes team and the Utah Highway Patrol helicopter found the body of Shaw Trent Phillipsen at 9:30 a.m. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Fire authorities say they’re lifting the last of the evacuation orders near a southern Utah wildfire as crews get a handle on the blaze that once drove 1,500 people from their homes. The area was reopened Wednesday night, more than three weeks after many people […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seismologists say a minor earthquake shook an area in southern Utah. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations said the magnitude 3.4 tremor was felt in and around St. George on Wednesday morning. The epicenter was 9 miles (14 kilometers) south-southeast of St. George. Seismologists say […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s largest teachers union is suing the state school board over a new website that allows the public to search a database of disciplinary actions taken against educators. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the lawsuit was filed Friday by the Utah Education Association, but it […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors say a Utah couple accused in the death of their toddler daughter taunted the malnourished child with food and attempted to cover her injuries with makeup. Prosecutors filed aggravated murder charges Tuesday against the girl’s mother, 22-year-old Brenda Emile, and father, 25-year-old Miller Costello. Charging […]
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in Washington state say the father-in-law of a Utah woman who went missing in 2009 has been released early from prison after serving time for possession of child pornography. Steven Powell is the father of Josh Powell, who is believed to have killed his wife, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people have weighed in on whether Utah’s new Bears Ears National Monument should be preserved, downsized or rescinded. The U.S. Interior Department closed Monday a two-month public comment period on the monument and 26 others as part of a review ordered […]
