HERRIMAN, Utah (AP) — Fans wore masks and players drank from their own water bottles instead of sharing Thursday night at what was said to be the first high school football game in the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. News outlets report the game between Herriman […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah homeowners association apologized after asking residents to take down their Black Lives Matter signs. One of those residents was Dan Carlson, a professor at the University of Utah. He posted a photo on social media Tuesday of the notice that the Daybreak homeowners […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah television station has conducted a survey suggesting that most of the state’s students could return to school in-person this fall. KUTV-TV queried five districts about how many of their students planned on taking online courses. The numbers reported are not final because thousands […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police have suspended the use of police dogs in apprehensions in light of an arrest earlier this year in which officers ordered a dog to attack a Black man who was kneeling and had already put his hands in the air. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah tax watchdog group and a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are calling on cities to pull out of a planned nuclear power plant project before it becomes too expensive. The Deseret News reports the Carbon Free Power Project is promoted […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Police Association has criticized new police reforms that aim to limit the use of deadly force by police officers amid continuing national protests against police brutality. The Deseret News reported that Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall signed an executive order last […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The federal Bureau of Land Management has canceled a planned sale of land in Southeast Utah to be used for oil drilling following opposition from county and municipal officials. The Spectrum reports the land between Arches and Canyonlands national parks will not be included in […]
A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday when the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall football seasons. Five months almost to the day after the first spikes in coronavirus cases in the U.S. led to the […]
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — Advocates have made strides in getting Native American symbols and names changed in sports, but they say more work needs to be done mainly at the high school level. Momentum is building during a nationwide push for racial justice following the death of George Floyd in […]
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The short-handed Dallas Mavericks rallied from a 22-point deficit in the second half to stun the Utah Jazz 122-114 on Monday. Tim Hardaway Jr. led the Mavericks with 27 points and Seth Curry added 22. Boban Marjanovic had 20 points and nine rebounds. It […]
