HOUSTON (AP) No one on the Utah Jazz is using the word ”stop” when referring to what they’ll try to do to James Harden in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Wednesday night after the Houston Rockets’ star scored 41 points in a Game 1 rout. They’re simply searching for ways to slow […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie is intervening in what he says was “unacceptable” treatment of an Army veteran in a messy room with an overflowing trash can at a Salt Lake City VA clinic. Wilkie said in a statement Tuesday that the VA was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state regulators are announcing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a written warning about ozone pollution levels that exceed federal thresholds in seven counties. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality said Tuesday in a news release that the EPA has given the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors are charging a 37-year-old Utah man with felony child abuse, saying he knocked down and fractured the elbow of a 13-year-old boy during a broom hockey game. Davis County prosecutors on Tuesday accused Ryan Reed Stettler of recklessly inflicting serious physical injury on a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An internal investigation into the chief administrative officer of a Salt Lake City suburb has found that his emails to a female employee crossed a professional boundary but did not rise to the level of sexual harassment. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Matthew Huish was placed on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of conservative Republicans has hired a firm to persuade Utah voters to remove their names from a ballot initiative petition that would cement Utah’s candidate nominating system. Fundraising disclosure forms show Keep My Voice spent $174,000 on the effort. Backer Dave Bateman tells the […]
EDEN, Utah (AP) — A 16-year-old northern Utah high school student delivered her aunt’s baby days after learning about childbirth in her child development class. The Deseret News reports that Morlie Hayes got a surprise visit on Saturday from her pregnant aunt Laura Creager, who was going into early labor. Creager thought […]
WEST VALEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A group of Utah high school students are planning to walk out of school Wednesday to show support for gun rights. Organizer Collin Thorup says he and a small number of students at Hunter High School in West Valley City are staging their own […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for selling oil and gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird. The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court seeks to reverse lease sales across 475 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Political unrest in Turkey has led the Mormon church to pull 29 church members serving missions there and reassign them to other countries. Mormon church spokesman Daniel Woodruff said Sunday in a statement that the men and women will be reassigned to other parts of […]
