SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Government leaders in Uintah County are defending the decision to use several hundred thousand dollars in coronavirus relief funding to build a snow tubing hill. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Buckskin Hills Ski and Snow Tubing Hill opened earlier this month outside of Vernal […]
Sanpete County has approved a budget of $16.6 million. While most local government institutions in Utah are seeing a decline in revenue, the county is expecting a two percent raise from last years $16.2 million. Taxes are expected to account for about 50 percent of the counties revenue. Several projects […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Utah are pushing several measures targeting abortions. Legislation that would make biological fathers responsible for paying half of the mother’s out-of-pocket pregnancy costs passed a House committee Wednesday. Republican Rep. Brady Brammer says he hopes this “pro-life” legislation increases “the responsibility for […]
Winter Weather Advisory issued January 29 at 3:10PM MST until January 30 at 9:00AM MST by NWS Saltlake …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MST SATURDAY… * WHAT…Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 6-12 inches. * WHERE…Wasatch Mountains I-80 North, Wasatch Mountains South of I-80, Western Uinta […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Survey software provider Qualtrics went public two years after German software giant SAP bought the company for $8 billion. The move Thursday marked the latest achievement for a company that has become one of the crown jewels of a technology corridor near Salt Lake City […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Democratic lawmakers in Utah have proposed a bill that would allow incarcerated women to continue receiving contraceptives, including birth control, while imprisoned in state jails. KUTV-TV reported that bill sponsors Rep. Jen Dailey-Provost and Sen. Luz Escamilla said the legislation would require jails to […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior has been sued over plans to allow all-terrain vehicles in a recreation area in Utah that conservation groups say would be destructive. The Spectrum reports that the National Parks Conservation Association filed the lawsuit on Jan. 19. It demanded […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal to narrow the legal definition of stalking cleared an early hurdle at the Utah Legislature Tuesday, despite opposition from victims and advocates. Republican Rep. Candice Pierucci said she decided to sponsor the bill after hearing about an unfair arrest of a Utah man […]
Early in the afternoon of Jan. 27, authorities responded to a rollover crash on SR 118 a couple miles South of Richfield. According to Utah Highway Patrol Sargent Clay Morgan, a single female was driving south on SR 118 when the vehicle she was driving drifted off the right side […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah House voted Tuesday to allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, despite some GOP dissent. Republican Rep. Merrill Nelson worried the idea would bring Utah one step closer to the wild West. Nelson said he was a gun owner and supporter […]
