BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he’s recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated. But there would be changes to a “handful,” he said. Zinke told The Associated Press that unspecified boundary adjustments […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah and U.S. government officials say swollen populations of federally-protected mustangs roaming 10 Western states are starved and damaging rangelands, leaving some officials to recommend killing or selling the animals to reduce herds. Members of the state’s congressional delegation and a U.S. Interior Department official […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say a Utah woman used eye drops to secretly poison her husband, making him ill for months. Court documents say 33-year-old Chandra V. Read was charged with a misdemeanor after her husband found a black bag full of empty eye-drop bottles with the tops […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah State Forester Brian Cottam said “stupid human tricks” have led to the states’ wildfire bill being double what it usually is. Cottam says the cost to Utah for this year’s wildfires is projected to be $18 million, while the state’s yearly average is $9 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Five of Utah’s 10 largest colleges are under federal investigation into the handling of various sexual misconduct claims. Utah Valley University joined the four other schools being investigated earlier this month. The other schools are Brigham Young University, University of Utah, Westminster College and Dixie […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservation groups are airing TV ads, planning rallies and creating parody websites in a last-minute blitz to stop Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke from downsizing or eliminating national monument areas that cover large swaths of land and water from Maine to California. The deadline for Zinke […]
One man is dead after a semi-tractor struck him while he was helping someone else on the side of the road. The accident happened Monday in Millard County along Highway 50 at about milepost 98. Carl Thomas Demolen of Fillmore had gone to assist a driver who had an equipment […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in Salt Lake City are looking for a white car that may be connected to a drive-by shooting that killed one teenager and injured another. Police say two 17-year-old boys were shot Saturday night while hanging out in the front yard of a house […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jury deliberations have resumed in Las Vegas for a fourth full day in the retrial of four men accused of wielding assault weapons to force federal agents to abandon a 2014 cattle roundup near anti-government figure Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada. Jurors are back at work […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will obey a court order to let the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration search a prescription-drug database without a warrant, despite a state law designed to protect patient privacy. The state disagrees with the ruling that found people can’t expect privacy in the highly regulated […]
