SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s governor has defended his position to support a minority scholarship program sponsored by the Utah Jazz despite criticism from some who have called the program racist. FOX13 reported Monday that Republican Gov. Spencer Cox on a radio show last week was asked about an […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state epidemiologist Angela Dunn is leaving her job to take over the Salt Lake County health department. County and state officials announced Dunn’s decision on Tuesday. Dunn helped the state navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. She became a household name and a recognizable face in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New research shows ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves. Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in […]
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — U.S. water officials are projecting the man-made lakes that store water used throughout the American West will fall to historically low levels and trigger an official shortage declaration for the first time. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released projections this week forecasting that less Colorado […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A sheriff’s office in Utah is investigating a potential murder-suicide that occurred in Tooele County. The Tooele County Sheriff’s Office said the a woman called dispatch Saturday and said her husband was shot. She immediately disconnected the phone. Officers then responded to the residence associated […]
Recently there has been a string of thefts from unlocked vehicles in Monroe. According to Sevier County Sheriff Nathan Curtis, four or five vehicles were broken into, but two of the vehicles had nothing taken. One vehicle had some sunglasses stolen and another vehicle had a rifle and some binoculars […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Despite concerns that the pandemic would drive many teachers away and exacerbate a longstanding teacher shortage in the state, more Utah teachers stayed in their jobs this year than they have over the last five years. KUER-FM reports that data from the Utah State Board […]
Two animal activists may be on their way to resolving a case in 6th District Court in Sanpete County that began more than four years ago. On January 1, 2017, Paul Pickleseimer and Wayne Hsiung were among a group of six members of Direct Action Everywhere who allegedly broke into […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Federal public lands officials are investigating after climbing bolts damaged an ancient petroglyph site near Moab, Utah. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports the line of bolts was inserted into the middle of a large rock-art image left by Indigenous people more than 1,000 years ago. […]
