(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utahns wanting to cut their own Christmas trees can start getting permits from the Bureau of Land Management next week. The agency will begin accepting applications online and at district offices on Monday. Permits cost ten-dollars each, with a limit of up to five permits […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Highway Patrol is reminding drivers that they need to slow down during wet and windy weather. The highway patrol announced yesterday that troopers had responded to 118 crashes statewide in 24 hours. Rain, wind and snow were factors in all of the crashes. […]
(Undated) — Parents across Utah are split over vaccinating their children against COVID-19. In a new poll released Tuesday, eight-percent of parents with children under the age of 18 say they will not vaccinate their child while 10-percent have already gotten their child vaccinated. Among the parents in Utah who […]
(Provo, UT) — A BYU student is facing charges in a sextortion case involving a 16-year-old girl. Prosecutors say 20-year-old Benjamin Shields was charged Monday with aggravated sexual extortion of a child after he allegedly offered the teen money for nude pictures and then threatened to expose her if she […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Former Congressman Rob Bishop is criticizing the state’s independent redistricting commission for being too partisan. Bishop abruptly quit the commission yesterday, saying the group was favoring Democrats in the boundaries it was drawing. He also criticized the makeup of the commission, saying Utah’s rural areas […]
(Undated) — Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee is urging Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to leave the Democratic party. Manchin, a centrist Democrat, has been seen as a stumbling block for President Biden’s spending agenda by more progressive members of the party. He’s said he’d become an independent if […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah doctors are optimistic the state may be in for a better winter when it comes to COVID-19. Dr. Eddie Stenehjem [[Sten-NAY-HEM]] for Intermountain Medical Center told reporters this Friday, that metrics remain at a high plateau. However, the number of people who have recovered […]
On Oct. 22, Sevier County Sheriffs Office was dispatched to a capsized boat at Fishlake. According to Sevier County Sheriff Nathan Curtis, “a father, Christopher Winslow age 36 from Cedar City, and son had been fishing with a friend. At 3:30 am they dropped the friend off and the father […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s attorney general is seeking some outside help to challenge the Biden Administration in court. The Attorney General’s Office put out a request for bids yesterday seeking qualified law firms that could handle taking a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The […]
Many residents in Sevier County will see smoke in the air today. Currently there is a construction project underway between Richfield and Annabella and part of that project includes burning all the weeds on the land. This is a prescribed burn and is going according to plan.
