Grand Canyon National Park officials are planning to replace much of the decades-old, problem-plagued pipeline that crosses the canyon to supply water to hotels, campgrounds and other facilities on the popular South Rim. Crews regularly have to descend into the canyon by trail or helicopter to fix costly breaks to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new museum is opening to honor thousands of Japanese-Americans held in a remote Utah internment camp during World War II, and the family of one its designers was among those that suffered during that era. The Ogden Standard-Examiner reported Friday (http://bit.ly/2uzthWS) the Mano family […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new state report shows Utah police seized $1.4 million in cash last year from people under a law allowing law enforcement to take someone’s property even if a person isn’t charged or convicted of a crime. The report released Thursday by the state Commission […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A northern Utah couple has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse homicide after police found their three-year-old daughter dead in their home. Odgen Police said Friday in a news release that evidence shows 3-year-old Angelina Costello died from abusive trauma. The 25-year-old Miller Costello and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs is expected back in a Utah courtroom following his capture after nearly a year on the run. Court records show Jeffs is set to enter a plea on a federal failure-to-appear charge connected to his time as a fugitive at […]
(St. George, UT) – Investigators are trying to determine what caused a more than 70-year-old building in Saint George to burn to the ground. Fire crews found flames shooting from the Wilkinson’s House of Lighting building late Wednesday night. A nearby home that’s vacant was also damaged in the fire. Investigators […]
(Washington County, UT) – Washington County authorities are investigating a deadly accident that left a woman’s car at the bottom of a 300-foot ravine. Investigators think the unidentified woman’s car went over a cliff off Kolob Terrace Road yesterday morning. It was discovered sometime later by a passing driver. No one […]
(Cedar City, UT) – Two separate fires in Cedar City are extinguished by firefighters. The first blaze broke out in brush on Automall Drive last night followed shortly after by another near 300 North and 300 West. Crews actually evacuated people from the neighborhood of the second fire as a precaution, […]
(Brian Head, UT) – The Brian Head Fire continues to grow, albeit at a slower pace. Fire crews reported yesterday the fire had consumed just over 68-thousand-400 acres, up about a thousand acres from Wednesday. The fire is currently sitting at about 75-percent containment and officials still expect to have it […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – A Salt Lake City lawmaker plans to propose restrictions on the use of personal fireworks in Utah. House Minority Whip Joel Briscoe says he will sponsor a bill in the next session of the Legislature to either ban fireworks statewide or restrict the number of days […]
