SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Belgian tourist has died of apparent heat-related causes while hiking at a popular rock formation called “The Wave” near the Utah-Arizona border. Kane County sheriff’s Sgt. Alan Alldredge says 49-year-old Christophe Pochic was found dead Monday night after his 16-year-old son called his mom […]
UPDATE: According to the Forest Service, crews now have 43 percent containment on the blaze. The total acres is still at 2,586 Wednesday morning. — Crews are continuing to battle the Cove Fort Fire in Millard, Beaver and Sevier Counties. The fire has burned 2,586 acres by Tuesday morning with […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park visitors are being asked to alert wildlife biologists if they encounter bighorn sheep coughing a lot. Excessive coughing is a symptom of pneumonia and park officials and the state Division of Wildlife Resources said Tuesday that a bacterium commonly associated with […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a teenager who ran away from a youth-treatment program in Utah has been found safe. Officials with Redcliff Ascent said Saturday that 13-year-old Roberto Madrigal was found on the side of a road in Beaver County, hungry but otherwise healthy. The California native […]
Cougars are doing well in Utah. So well, in fact, that a few more hunters might be allowed to hunt them this fall. This past season, hunters were given the opportunity to take 581 cougars in the state. For the upcoming season, biologists with the Division of Wildlife Resources are […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A historic Mormon church building in southern Utah has re-opened its doors after a two-year project to restore the tabernacle built by early settlers even as the new town struggled to survive through floods and heat. The Spectrum newspaper reports the Tabernacle in St. George, a LDS […]
COVE FORT, Utah (AP) — An 11-day-old wildfire shifted direction Saturday, forcing closure of a 23-mile (37-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 70 near its junction with Interstate 15 in southern Utah. Officials said the closure of I-70 in both directions was due to safety concerns for both firefighters and the public. […]
The Beaver County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing boy who’s runaway from a youth program. 13-year-old Roberto Madrigal is missing from The Redcliff Ascent program for youth in the remote desert area in Western Beaver County. He’s wearing tan shorts and a brown cargo shirt. Campers in the […]
Sterling town billed their 24th of July celebration as the Greatest Show on Earth, and they didn’t disappoint. Towards the end of the fireworks display, a burning ember from one of the fireworks started the knoll west of town on fire. The fireworks display finished as the volunteer fire department […]
President Donald Trump is recognizing Mormon pioneers who journeyed across the west to build a new home in Utah. Trump said in a statement issued Tuesday by the White House that the families who fled persecution in Illinois “worked tirelessly to transform the arid desert landscape into a blossoming new […]
