Americans are marking the Thanksgiving holiday amid an unrelenting pandemic that has upended traditions at dinner tables all around the country. Zoom and FaceTime calls are fixtures this year, and people who have lost family members to the virus are keeping an empty seat to honor their loved ones. Far […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Physicians in Utah are warning that Thanksgiving could become a major super spreader event for COVID-19 transmission if people don’t follow public health guidelines. An increased number of hospitalizations across the state has prompted doctors and public health officials to advise against attending Thanksgiving gatherings […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Andy Larsen is a sports writer for the Salt Lake Tribune, but with so many games scratched during the pandemic he has spent a lot of time digging into coronavirus data and its sobering implications. Then on Monday, while he was sorting his spare change, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The parents of a 13-year-old Utah boy with autism have filed a federal lawsuit against the Salt Lake City Police Department alleging an officer shot the teenager 11 times. The lawsuit filed in Utah District Court claims the boy was severely injured when police responded […]
PROVO, Utah-In news that broke late Tuesday evening, BYU men’s basketball head coach Mark Pope has been signed to an extension by the Cougars’ athletics department. This extension lasts through the 2026-2027 season. Because the athletics department is wading through budget concerns caused by covid-19, Pope has opted to defer […]
Tuesday evening, BYU football was ranked No. 14 in the first college football playoff rankings released for the 2020 season. A four-team playoff format currently exists in NCAA the FBS subdivision, the highest level of Division I college football. Therefore, if the playoff were to start today, the teams that […]
OGDEN, Utah-Wednesday, Weber State men’s basketball commences its 59th season at the Division I level (the Wildcats are 1051-629, . 625 at the Division I level) by hosting the NCAA Division II Adams State Grizzlies of Alamosa, Colo. The Wildcats are coming off a 12-20 campaign (8-12 in Big Sky […]
On Nov. 23 around 8:40 p.m. Sevier County deputies and Search and Rescue were dispatched to three stranded hikers in Red Canyon west of Sigurd. They had left on a hike around noon and a few hours into their hike they were unable to find their way back down the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Deep in the Mars-like landscape of Utah’s red-rock desert lies a mystery: A gleaming metal monolith in one of the most remote parts of the state. Officials say the smooth, tall structure was found during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah. A […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah had record high voter turnout this year, with a staggering 90% of active voters casting ballots. About 1.5 million people voted in 2020, which is greater than the number of total registered voters in 2018, according to Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox. His office oversees […]
