SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Veterans Affairs clinic in Salt Lake City is investigating why an Army veteran was put in a room with an overflowing trash can and medical supplies strewn about after the man’s father tweeted images of the unclean space. The Deseret News reports Stephen Wilson, the father […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Democrats nominated Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams Saturday for what is expected to be the only competitive congressional race in the largely Republican state. McAdams easily won the nomination against four challengers with 72 percent of delegates’ votes during the party’s convention in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah prison officials say they’ve reviewed 74 court cases involving inmate medical records after the department failed to produce documents in a death-penalty case. The probe came after Judge Wallace Lee called for an investigation into the Department of Corrections’ handing of the case of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two days after hitting the upper 80s, northern Utah awoke to near-freezing temperatures and a wintery mix of snow and rain. National Weather Service meteorologist Nick Carr said Monday that the snow and cold may feel jarring after the sun soaked weekend but that it’s […]
According to the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, wind on Saturday has helped reignite a fire in Elsinore from Wednesday. A residence was threatened and neighbors have been evacuated. Several fences and other sheds also caught on fire. The smoke from the fire temporarily closed highway 89 and slowed traffic on […]
FISHLAKE NATIONAL FOREST, Utah-Per a report from the official Twitter account of Utah Fire Info, a controlled burn on the Fishlake National Forest went well Friday. On Thursday, after a successful burn removed 100 acres of dead trees, the success continued on Friday. Friday’s blaze saw 50-100 acres of dead […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democrats in deep-red Utah are looking to Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams to flip one of the state’s four Republican-controlled congressional districts and help take control of the U.S. House. But first he has to win the party’s nomination against four challengers at the […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal land managers are again seeking congressional backing to sterilize, euthanize or sell for slaughter tens of thousands of wild horses roaming public lands across the West. But the Bureau of Land Management has added a new idea for culling overpopulated herds: $1,000 paychecks for those […]
GARFIELD COUNTY, Utah-Per the official Twitter account of UDOT Traffic, an accident occurred Friday near Hatch. The incident occurred at 11:42 am MDT Friday morning on U.S. Highway 89 at milepost 123, 7 miles north of Hatch, one mile south of the Bryce Canyon Junction. Clearance time was estimated at […]
MIDVALE, Utah (AP) — Officials say as many as six people were injured in a multi-vehicle wreck involving Utah Transit Authority paratransit bus that ended up on its side on Interstate 15 in the Salt Lake City area. Authority spokesman Carl Arky tells the Deseret News the driver was the only person […]
