Six people were ejected from a vehicle and a woman was killed during a rollover crash around 7:00 a.m. Dec. 21 in Wayne County. According to the Utah Highway Patrol a Toyota 4Runner was traveling westbound a mile west of the turn-off to Hanksville on state Rout 24 when for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of rural counties in Utah has suspended a highway construction project that would run through the Book Cliffs in Grand County. KUER-FM reported that the group called the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition voted Friday to halt the project because of opposition from residents […]
Governor elect Spencer Cox has announced more senior cabinet members ahead of his January 4 inauguration, including Sanpete County Sheriff Brian Nielson, who will be heading the Utah Department of Corrections. The Utah Senate will have to confirm many of the appointments before they can begin their administrative duties. Nielson […]
Not only is December 21 the first day of winter, but anyone with access to a clear sky will be able to see an astronomical phenomenon that hasn’t been seen in almost 800 years. The planets Jupiter and Saturn have been slowly moving closer to each other in the sky […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is one of more than a dozen states that have been told to expect far fewer doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in its second week of distribution. The state’s health department says Utah will instead receive 16,575 doses instead of the expected 23,400 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Board of Higher Education has unanimously voted in support of Dixie State University dropping “Dixie” from its name. Dixie State University’s Board of Trustees voted for a name change earlier this week, which was then supported by the higher education board. Dixie State […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — The shadows of 2020 are about the only thing that remain of a rather unusual and chaotic year. But time passes quickly and it will soon be but a memory. The Daily Herald reports that is exactly what area residents were saying a decade ago when […]
BEDROCK, Colo. (AP) — A small earthquake hit a rural area Saturday near the Colorado-Utah border, the University of Utah Seismograph Stations reported. The magnitude 4.3 earthquake took place at 7:11 p.m. The agency says the epicenter was 3 1/2 miles (5.6 kilometers) southwest of Bedrock, Colorado, and 18 miles […]
SOUTH WEBER, Utah (AP) — South Weber woodworker Jeff Hansen has been busy building a bunch of small rocking chairs meant as donations to area kids. He put the word out via social media that he was taking orders for the junior-sized chairs, focused on helping families struggling economically, and […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Three towering concrete stacks that were among the last visual reminders of a shuttered power plant came down Friday. People lined roadways and gathered in parking lots near the northern Arizona city of Page to watch it happen. The 775-foot structures loomed over the Navajo Generating […]
