SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Drought conditions have six counties in Utah declaring emergency disasters, with farmers and ranchers among the hardest-hit. KUTV reports Utah’s Drought Review and Reporting Committee met Monday to discuss expanding the emergency disaster area. Mike Styler, the executive director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, says […]
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. (AP) — A 75-year-old Utah woman apparently drove the wrong way on Interstate 80 for nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) before crashing into an oncoming car, killing both drivers, injuring two others and shutting down part of the interstate near the Nevada-Utah line for several hours. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The aunt of a 12-year-old boy hit by a school bus in Roy says he’s fighting for his life at a hospital. Cynthia Heath told KUTV news that Natas Farkas suffered serious head injuries in the Friday collision and has been unresponsive ever since. Farakas was riding […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge on Monday sided with the U.S. Department of Labor against a company with ties to a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border, finding the company changed its name in a bid to defy an order to stop using child labor. U.S. District Judge […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials say customers of a downtown Salt Lake City restaurant might have been exposed to hepatitis A from late July through mid-August. The Salt Lake County Health Department says an infected worker at the New Yorker Restaurant “potentially handled certain food or beverage items,” […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love is refunding or re-designating up to $380,000 in contributions after the Federal Election Commission issued a warning that more than $1 million may have been improperly collected for a primary that never happened. The Love campaign defended the rest of […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Authorities arrested two Utah men for their role in causing more than $5,000 of damages to a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Daily Herald reports Kevin Jay Hayes and Thomas Tristian Anderson, both of Spanish Fork, were arrested on suspicion of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department has expanded hunting at Utah’s Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. It’s one of 30 national wildlife refuges across the country where U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is expanding hunting and fishing. Interior officials say in a statement that 40 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon man who has led a campaign criticizing the church’s practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youth by lay leaders will have to wait to find out if he’ll be kicked out of the religion. Sam Young said Sunday night that local church […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a man walking on a highway near Heber City is dead after being struck by an oil tanker truck. Utah Highway Patrol officials say the fatal accident occurred around 3 p.m. Saturday on U.S. 40 just north of Heber City. They say a […]
