OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Phoenix, a 5-year-old golden eagle, leaps from perch to perch in his enclosure. He does it with a brace on his left foot. On June 21, 2012, when Phoenix was a few months old, he was critically injured in the Saratoga Springs Utah Dump Fire. Too […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Park City has launched one of the country’s first fully electric bike-share programs. City officials say the first phase of the program will support 88 new pedal-assisted e-bikes. The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/2uNYKHl) the bikes will initially be available at nine charging stations throughout Park […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The co-founder of the Utah League of Native American Voters is running to challenge U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah next year. Democrat Carol Surveyor announced in a statement Friday that she’s filed with the Federal Election Commission and is gearing up to run in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new Utah group is calling for the creation of an independent redistricting commission amid allegations that Republican legislators have gerrymandered districts in the state to give themselves an advantage. Leaders of the bipartisan Better Boundaries initiative on Thursday filed to start a petition to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The death of a Utah doctor imprisoned for drugging his beauty queen wife and leaving her to die in a bathtub has been ruled a suicide. Utah police released a report Friday on the April death of Martin MacNeill, who was convicted of murdering his […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of cutting up the body of a Colorado woman and hiding her remains in a suitcase after she overdosed on drugs in Utah has pleaded guilty to charges in the case. The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/2vJ528r ) 50-year-old Raymond Cordova, of Grand […]
DENVER (AP) — Colorado will contribute $1.7 million to help relocate the nation’s largest outdoor recreation trade show from Salt Lake City to Denver. The Colorado Economic Development Commission this week approved the award, contingent on three outdoor retail conventions being held in Denver annually for five years. Luis Benitez, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A report predicts an area between Salt Lake City and Provo could face major highway congestion, a lack of affordable housing options and an increase in poor air quality by 2050. A planning group warned the Point of the Mountain Development Commission on Thursday that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is approving a deal for an embattled Utah elected official to resign amid questions about his mental capacity. Salt Lake County officials said Friday that Judge Bruce Lubeck signed the agreement giving county recorder Gary Ott a $35,000 severance. He will step down […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Commissioners in a southeastern Utah county are welcoming a federal judge’s order that an independent expert redraw the county’s commission and school board election districts because they’re unconstitutional. San Juan County’s commissioners said in a statement Friday that they asked for an independent expert to […]
