The groundbreaking ceremony for the Ephraim Utah Temple will be held on Saturday, August 27, 2022. Elder Walter F. Gonzalez of the Quorum of the Seventy will preside at the event. The Ephraim Utah Temple will be built on a 9.16-acre site located at the intersection of 200 North and 400 East […]
The 6th District Juvenile Court has announced five candidates for a new judge. Nominees include Arek Butler, Sanpete County deputy county attorney; Alex Goble, San Juan County deputy county attorney; Michael Mathie, Sevier County deputy county attorney; Alen Sevison, southern section director for the Utah Attorney General’s office; and Robert […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox wants to make it easier for southern Utah communities to get help as they recover from severe flooding. The governor issued a state of emergency declaration for Grand, Emery and Wayne counties yesterday. The order allows state agencies to offer aid to the […]
(Kane County, UT) — The Utah Medical Examiner is looking into the death of an Arizona man found over the weekend in Kane County. Eighty-year-old Roger Stricklett of Phoenix was reported missing by his family on Saturday. Searchers found his truck still running near the Dry Fork turnoff in Kane […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed over the weekend into a lake that straddles the Arizona-Utah state line, killing two people and leaving five injured. Federal Aviation Administration officials said Monday that the pilot reported an engine problem late Saturday afternoon before the single-engine Cessna 207 […]
On Aug. 11 around 2:45 p.m. Richfield City Police responded to a crash between a UTV and a car on the Southeast side of Richfield. According to Richfield City Police the UTV, a Polaris Ranger driven by a juvenile, was driving North when it failed to yield at a yield […]
The Ephraim City Council has voted unanimously to impose a new curfew in its city parks. The vote was held in a city council meeting on August 3rd. Effective immediately the curfew is in effect from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. at all city parks. The push for this ordinance […]
(Juab County, UT) — The Juab County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information about a series of suspicious cattle deaths. The Sheriff’s Office is investigating three separate times that livestock was killed in the Levan and Mills areas. A 20-thousand-dollar reward is being offered in connection with the investigation. Anyone with […]
(Ephraim, UT) — The number of turkeys raised in Utah for food that have tested positive for bird flu is up to over 50-thousand. The latest case in Sanpete County involved nearly 13-thousand commercially raised turkeys. The new case was reported on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal […]
The Sanpete County Commission met with officials from the Central Utah Water Conservancy District last week about an alternative to the Narrows dam and reservoir. Officials have made it clear that the Gunnison Irrigation Company and Gunnison Reservoir would be highly involved in any alternative plans. The big issue the […]
