Red Flag Warning issued August 29 at 3:26AM MDT until August 30 at 12:00AM MDT by NWS Saltlake …RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT FOR DRY THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 479…480…481…482…483…484…488 AND 489… * AFFECTED AREA…Fire Weather Zone 479 Wasatch Mountains…Fire […]
FINAL UPDATE: The U.S. Forest Service reports 85 percent containment of the Saul’s Meadow Fire as of Friday morning. The fire started Wednesday night and burned 18.1 acres. Fire officials have one engine on site to check the area and mop up as needed Friday. Officials are reminding that with […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Salt Lake City police officer who was fired after he was caught on video roughly arresting a nurse who refused to draw blood from a patient has been hired to work at a jail in northern Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Detective Jeff Payne […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A newly appointed Trump administration official who oversees nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West says his past support for selling federal lands is “irrelevant.” Acting Bureau of Land Management Director William Perry Pendley disavowed his longtime advocacy for federal land sales or transfers in an interview with […]
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A couple suspected in a Tucson killing have escaped after overpowering two security guards while being extradited from New York to Arizona, authorities said Tuesday. Tucson police said Blane Barksdale, 56, and his 59-year-old wife Susan Barksdale escaped Monday evening in Blanding, Utah, south of Moab. […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Health officials are raising alarm after receiving several reports of people interacting with rabies-carrying bats in southwest Utah. The Southwest Utah Public Health Department said in a Tuesday news release that most of the cases have occurred in residential neighborhoods. Individuals exposed to the deadly […]
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — Construction of a Northrop Grumman Corp. facility to be used for upgrading the U.S. military’s ground-based nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles has begun at Hill Air Force Base in northern Utah. Officials said during a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday that the facility is expected to deliver […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A second passenger has sued the Greyhound bus company and a driver who authorities say fell asleep before the bus careened off a road in the Utah desert two years ago, killing one person and injured 12 others. Clemente Velazquez of Rogers, Arkansas, says in […]
Red Flag Warning issued August 28 at 1:16PM MDT until August 30 at 12:00AM MDT by NWS Saltlake …RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THURSDAY TO MIDNIGHT MDT THURSDAY NIGHT FOR DRY THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 479…480…481…482…483…484…488 AND 489… The National Weather Service […]
The Salina Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying person of interest in a vehicle burglary. According to Salina City Police Chief Al Taylor, the man is believed to be from the Sanpete County area. He has balding hair and was in a black newer Ford Fusion. The […]
