SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than 70,000 Utah residents paid a combined $2 million last year for special license plates displaying support for the University of Utah, veterans programs and even the NBA’s Jazz. Special license plates featuring designs that pay tribute to various groups cost at least $16 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say hikers discovered a badly decomposed body in a remote area in southwest Utah. Sgt. Dave Crouse says in a statement by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office that the body was found in ‘an advanced state of decomposition’ on Saturday in the Red Cliffs […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah family is capitalizing on the large number of solar eclipse chasers by setting up a campsite in Idaho to raise money for cancer treatment. The Ahlstrom family is conducting the fundraiser for research for a cure for multiple myeloma at their Rexburg, Idaho […]
A passenger car crashed with a garbage truck on US-89 Friday afternoon. The crash occurred near the Lake Palisades State Park turn-off. Lanes in both directions were closed while one driver was transported to the hospital in a helicopter. All lanes are now open in the area. The cause of […]
As thousands scramble north to view Monday’s cosmic event, travelers on major Utah highways are predicted to face heavy traffic. John Gleason with the Utah Department of Transportation says UDOT expects major delays throughout the weekend. “This is a really difficult event to predict because they’re not really selling tickets […]
A Salt Lake County woman is recovering after being wedged in and suspended for nearly 12 hours in a narrow portion of Zero Gravity Canyon in the San Rafael Desert. Emery County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a call on Wednesday afternoon @ 4:30 from the woman’s husband. He stated that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s unemployment rate rose slightly last month to 3.5 percent. July’s jobless rate released by Utah’s Department of Workforce Services on Friday was one-tenth of a percentage point higher than the previous month. The national unemployment rate dropped in July by one-tenth of a percentage […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah group is suing two county commissions after private meetings with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance’s lawsuit against Kane and Garfield’s commissions claims their May 10 meetings with Zinke violated open meeting laws because they were not posted. It filed […]
After four months, a preliminary hearing date has finally been set for a Mt. Pleasant man charged with the murder of his fiancee. On March 31, police were called to a residence in Mt. Pleasant and found Kammy Edmunds, 34, deceased in the bathroom. Her fiancee, Anthony Christensen, said Edmunds […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a Utah National Guard soldier killed in eastern Afghanistan says he was a Green Beret who died after entering a booby-trapped building that exploded. Father Randy Butler said in a statement Thursday that 27-year-old son Aaron Butler was killed and the other […]
