SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New legislation from a pair of Republican Utah lawmakers would create the Jurassic National Monument at a dinosaur fossil site and create a conservation area around the rugged San Rafael Swell. Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis said Wednesday their sweeping new land reform […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A ballot initiative that would create a new system for drawing Utah’s state legislative and congressional districts has met the threshold to be placed before voters in November. An updated count of verified signatures posted Thursday by the state’s lieutenant governor’s office shows that the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pizza-for-parking scheme is mostly to blame for a dip in the number of parking tickets issued and fines collected in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the city’s parking officers have written 40,000 fewer tickets this year and collections from overtime fees are down […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop wants to turn northern Utah’s Golden Spike National Historic Site into a national park. Bishop told The Standard-Examiner in Ogden that he’s introducing legislation Thursday that would elevate the status of the site at Promontory Summit where the first transcontinental railroad in country […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who police describe as a suspect in the killing of a teenage girl in Salt Lake City was arrested Wednesday in Colorado following a two-day multi-state manhunt. Shaun French, 24, had previously been in a sexual relationship with 15-year-old Baleigh Bagshaw and […]
Water managers say there’s a better-than-even possibility that Mexico and the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada will get less water from the Colorado River in 2020 because of a drought. U.S. officials said Wednesday there’s a 52 percent chance the river’s biggest reservoir, Lake Mead, will fall low enough […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man is dead after his pickup truck rolled off the road in Spanish Fork Canyon. The Daily Herald reports Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Todd Royce says the man was driving alone Tuesday afternoon on State Route 6 when his truck rolled down an embankment […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — A 30-year-old southern Utah man has pleaded not guilty to murder and child abuse charges stemming from the death of his girlfriend’s toddler a year ago. The St. George Spectrum reports Brendan Dalton entered the pleas in district court Tuesday to one count of murder, three counts […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Three Utah men have been found not guilty of raping a 9-year-old girl while her mother was smoking methamphetamine in a nearby garage. The jury reached the verdict Wednesday in the case where the girl’s harrowing testimony about what she said happened after a rural […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America at the end of next year and place its remaining 425,000 boys into a gospel-focused youth program it is developing. The move ends a nearly century-old relationship that was […]
