OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Since Utah lawmakers passed legislation earlier this year allowing immigrants to become police for the first time, the Ogden Police Department has received a number of applicants. Chief Eric Young tells the Standard-Examiner sees the change as a means to help with recruitment of new officers, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservation groups have sued the federal government over the Trump administration’s decision to allow construction of new four-lane highway through a national conservation area in southern Utah that includes protected habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise. The group Conserve Southwest Utah sued Friday, arguing that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s board of education has passed new rules around how race can be taught in K-12 schools. The Deseret News reports the board on Thursday confirmed new rules that would ensure that children in K-12 schools aren’t taught that any race, gender or religion is […]
SALT LAKE (AP) — Police are investigating an overnight shooting in Salt Lake City that left a 20-year-old man dead and four other people with injuries. The shooting occurred at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday in front of a home where people were gathered in a residential area near Salt Lake […]
Park administrators have closed areas of Utah’s Zion National Park as rescue crews search for a missing climber. The park said Sunday the search was taking place in The Narrows — a gorge carved by the Virgin River that has rock walls a thousand feet tall and is one of […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — A wildfire in southern Utah triggered an evacuation of almost 300 homes and had burned within a mile of some structures as strong winds threatened to fan the uncontrolled blaze. The fire south of the village of Mammoth Creek near Cedar City was burning in […]
Men’s Soccer WICHITA, Kan.-Oghenetega Agberhiere scored the sole goal of the game and the Western Texas Westerners downed Snow 1-0 in NJCAA Tournament men’s soccer pool play at Wichita, Kan. Saturday. George Romero posted the shutout for Western Texas. Snow next plays the No. 5 Harcum Bears Sunday. Women’s Soccer […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Linebacker Tre Pinkney intercepted Snow reserve quarterback Gabe Sweeten in the closing moments and the No. 1 Hutchinson (Kan.) Blue Dragons outlasted Snow 29-27 to win the first national football title in program history Saturday at War Memorial Stadium. Hutchinson tailback Tye Edwards added two rushing scores on […]
Thursday, college football guru Phil Steele selected his FCS All-American squads which featured several Southern Utah University and Weber State University standouts. Weber State senior offensive lineman Ty Whitworth made Steele’s first team as did SUU redshirt senior offensive lineman Braxton Jones. SUU redshirt senior linebacker La’akea Kaho’Ohano-hano-Davis made Steele’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal investigators say a tour bus crash that threw more than a dozen people onto a remote Utah highway in 2019 and killed four Chinese tourists highlights a lack of safety standards for bus roofs and windows. The National Transportation Safety Board released its final […]
