SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s unemployment rate held steady last month at 3.1 percent. That’s according to new numbers released Friday by Utah’s Department of Workforce Services. The department says Utah’s February jobless rate remained lower than the national rate, which has hovered at 4.1 percent for several months. […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah appeals court has ruled a woman convicted of murder for driving her boyfriend during a deadly 2014 police chase can get a new trial on some lesser charges in her case. The Utah Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that jurors at Meagan Grunwald’s trial […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dixie State University in St. George has discontinued a $10 million deal to name its sports stadium after Utah-based Legend Solar. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday that university officials and executives from Legend Solar agreed to part ways in order to “allow Legend Solar to focus […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Thousands of submissions have been entered online to name new schools in Eagle Mountain and Lehi. The Daily Herald reported Thursday that some ideas aimed to honor people, some drew inspiration from geographical features in the area and some went straight for the humor. If one resident had […]
Expect incredibly gusty winds for most of the today in and around Cedar City, Filmore and Milford. The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for most of southwestern Utah with sustained winds between 35-and-45 miles per hour predicted. Forecasters say gusts could hit up to 60 miles per hour. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is investigating a former missionary training center president who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the 1980s, following the release this week of a secret audio recording where he is heard apologizing to her and citing a sex addiction. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The southwest Utah city of St. George has become the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan area, while rural Uintah County in the northeast corner of the state is among places that lost the greatest percentage of its population. U.S. Census data released Thursday also puts the Provo-Orem […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republican congressman John Curtis is again defending his actions as Provo mayor over the hiring and handling of harassment complaints against a former police chief. Curtis released a second statement Wednesday responding to a lawsuit that claims he and the city failed to protect […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Some couples tying the knot in Utah will have to pay more for their marriage license later this year unless they undergo counseling, thanks to a new law signed by Gov. Gary Herbert. Herbert announced Wednesday he’d signed a bill raising the cost of marriage […]
It appears the cases against a Spring City man accused of kidnapping his own children and marrying the young daughter of a cult leader are headed for trial. Because of the number of witnesses and the volume of evidence collected in the case against John Coltharp, Sanpete County Attorney Kevin […]
