ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A southern Utah airport serving more than 200,000 commercial passengers a year will close for four months to let crews rip up and rebuild a runway undermined by unstable blue clay. St. George Regional Airport manager Rich Stehmeier tells The Spectrum the closure is scheduled May 29 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elected officials in southwest Salt Lake County are floating the idea of splitting the county without a majority vote from the area they’d leave behind. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that representatives from Herriman, Riverton, West Jordan and Copperton say they don’t feel fully represented at the […]
BEAVER, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a 41-year-old man sought in a criminal investigation in southern Nevada was arrested in a rural Utah county about midway between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Beaver County Correctional Facility records showed Sunday that Lee Frank Wilson was being held on a fugitive […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state board has temporarily suspended plans to sell a large mountain parcel of trust land in northeastern Utah. The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration Board of Trustees said its board voted unanimously Friday to temporarily suspend proceedings on a proposed sale of the […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah man accused of fatally shooting a city code enforcement officer has pleaded guilty to a number of charges. KUTV-TV reports Kevin Wayne Billings on Friday pleaded guilty to criminal homicide and aggravated arson. Authorities say Billings killed 52-year-old West Valley Code Enforcement officer Jill […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An off-duty Idaho Falls police officer was fatally shot Thursday night after he entered a Utah home uninvited and confronted a man who he believed was dating his ex-girlfriend, authorities said Friday. Blaine Reed, 35, was shot several times by the homeowner during a fight, […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Police say an 18-year-old Utah man is accused of punching and kicking his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach, aiming to cause a miscarriage. According to court documents, the 16-year-old victim told St. George police that the man knew she was pregnant and that he was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal to raise the age to buy cigarettes in Utah has an unlikely critic — the American Cancer Society’s Action Network, which argues the law should target retailers for penalties rather than buyers. While the group supports raising the tobacco-buying age to 21, it […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a fuel tanker fire on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City (all times local): 10:35 a.m. A Utah Department of Transportation spokesman says crews need to do extensive repairs on Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City following a fuel tanker explosion and […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An airplane has made an emergency landing at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas after a passenger reported a medical problem. Airport spokeswoman Gabriela Muro told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a passenger on the SkyWest Airlines flight from Palm Springs, California to Salt Lake City reported numbness […]
