SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Legislature’s 2021 session opened Tuesday with words of hope and heightened security measures against a backdrop of possibly violent protests and the coronavirus pandemic. The Capitol usually buzzes with activity as lobbyists, advocates and others walk the halls. But it was largely empty […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged its members to get a COVID-19 vaccine when it’s their turn, while announcing Tuesday that eight top leaders and most of their wives received their first doses. Ninety-six-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson and the others […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The Ogden branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Utah organized a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally against racial injustice Monday. Roughly 25 cars congregated with social distance in the Utah city to say that the problems that resulted in […]
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Social worker salaries in Utah are so low that employees have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet and some are even on welfare. Fox-13 news reporters that Republican Governor Spencer Cox’s administration highlighted the issue in a scathing memo put out by his transition […]
MILLARD COUNTY, Utah (AP) — Authorities in Utah say three people were killed and a fourth person injured during a rollover accident on a gravel road near the Nevada border. An off-duty Millard County Sheriff’s Office deputy encountered the surviving victim on the side of the road following the Friday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah health officials have confirmed the state’s first case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom. Lab tests found a 25 to 44 year old man from Salt Lake County who tested positive last month had the variant. The state health […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemned “lawless behavior” and the violence of rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol in a statement Friday. It was the faith’s first public comments since the Jan. 6 attack by pro-Trump loyalists. The top leaders from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah activist who filmed the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will be released on house arrest. John Sullivan, a self-described journalist and liberal activist, was arrested Thursday and charged with civil disorder, violent entry or disorderly […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The Utah Division of Transportation and Washington County received approval to build a four-lane highway that would pass through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, a protected Mojave desert tortoise habitat in southern Utah. The Spectrum reported Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration granted the […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Twin brothers Antonio and Armand Berry didn’t have a easy start at life: As babies, they were shaken by their biological father, which left them legally blind. Later adopted by their maternal grandparents in Ogden, they have grown up to become students at Weber State University. […]
