A truck is completely destroyed after a fire in the Sevier County Mountains Thursday. According to the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, the truck was on the gooseberry road hauling a horse trailer. When officials arrived, the truck was fully engulfed and the trailer had been separated. Salina and Aurora Fire […]
Mt. Pleasant will be looking for a new mayor again for the second time in two years. Mayor Sandra Bigler submitted a letter of resignation to the City Council, citing personal reasons. A letter released by Bigler on Friday goes into more detail though about frustrations in working with the […]
The state Division of Wildlife Resources is looking for whoever shot a mule deer and left it to waste near Minersville. Officials said Wednesday the deer was killed more than a month ago but it wasn’t reported to them until about three weeks later. The DWR says none of the […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A man from Russia has drowned in a reservoir along the Utah-Arizona border, authorities said Wednesday. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kurganov, 20, of St. Petersburg was with a group of 29 foreign nationals who met up at Lake Powell and rented three pontoon boats. Some of them jumped […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray says homegrown violent extremists now are the government’s primary concern in combating terrorism. Wray was in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, speaking to hundreds of law enforcement officers at Utah’s National Security and Anti-Terrorism Conference. He says homegrown violent extremists are […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say two executives of a Salt Lake City biodiesel company linked to a polygamous group could flee to Turkey if they are released ahead of trial on charges in a $500 million tax credit scheme. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah also says in […]
ODGEN, Utah (AP) — Ogden police say an officer shot and injured a dog that allegedly attacked him while he was on a child welfare call. According to a statement from the Ogden Police Department, the dog came out from behind a vehicle in a driveway and attacked the officer. […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park officials say rescue crews had to retrieve a group of hikers who were temporarily trapped on the popular Hidden Canyon trail after a rockfall. The Spectrum reports it’s the third time in a little more than a month that the park has had to […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A U.S. Department of Interior leader reiterated the agency’s strong interest in moving the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to the West during a visit to a northern Utah city that is under consideration as a new home. Interior assistant secretary Susan Combs said the move […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials are reporting a human case of West Nile virus in Box Elder County, one of four cases in Utah this year. The Standard Examiner newspaper reports two more samples have also tested positive for the virus in Box Elder County, bringing the total number of […]
