OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a teenager died after he was buried in an avalanche while snowmobiling north of Salt Lake City. A spokeswoman for the Davis County Sheriff’s Office tells the Standard-Examiner the 18-year-old was snowmobiling with his father in Farmington Canyon when the avalanche happened Saturday afternoon. […]
A conservation group can seek details from the Trump Administration on whether it used the recommendations of a disbanded committee to craft policies on oil, gas and coal extraction. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy says there is “a significant question” on whether the administration followed the advice of the Royalty […]
Snow coated the roads during the morning commute near Salt Lake City on Friday. The National Weather Service reports the storm dropped up to five inches within about four hours. In the mountains, some places saw more than a foot of snow. The Utah Highway Patrol says state government workers […]
VERNAL, Utah (AP) — Utah authorities say a sex offender recently released from an Iowa prison has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman on a Greyhound bus. KUTV reported Thursday that the man was arrested in the small northeastern Utah city of Vernal after the driver stopped […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The pilot killed when his small plane crashed into a Utah neighborhood Wednesday was the founder of a company that made skis. Ogden-based Goode Ski Technologies said in a post Thursday on its website that 64-year-old David Goode loved water skiing, snow skiing and flying […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Utah Republican party chair Thomas Wright is adding a political heavyweight to his run for governor by tapping outgoing Congressman Rob Bishop as his lieutenant-governor candidate. Bishop had already said he would not run for a ninth term in the U.S. House. He had […]
Two rallies calling on Utah senators to push for an impartial impeachment trial for President Donald Trump have drawn a combined total of over 100 people. The demonstrators from a coalition of progressive groups gathered outside the federal building in Salt Lake City in the morning and again in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of the longest-serving Democratic members of the Utah Legislature has announced she will not seek reelection. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Rep. Patrice Arent plans to retire when her term expires Jan. 1, 2021. Arent joined the Utah House in 1996 and served until […]
MINERSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Officials say a light 4.0 magnitude earthquake rumbled beneath southwest Utah’s Mineral Mountains on Thursday evening. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations said no damage was expected in the largely rural area. The shock was felt by some residents in nearby communities. Since 1962, there have […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Businesses in communities bordering Utah say the state’s new and stronger beer allowances have hurt sales. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the beer sales have dropped about 20% to 30% in some parts of Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada and Colorado. Business officials say the drop […]
