SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah couple is on track to open the state’s first tilapia farm after they got an exemption from a law that prohibits commercial farming of the species because it can pose a threat to native fish. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Cliff and Teri Sackett are […]
Utah police say two people are in the hospital after a shooting Sunday outside a popular mall in a Salt Lake City suburb. Murray Police officer Kenny Bass (bas) says the incident is possibly gang related and they are searching for three suspects. Bass says the two people were shot […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police in Salt Lake City say they’re investigating a fatal shooting that is being called a homicide. Officers were called to the scene of a shooting around 8 p.m. Saturday. They say a person was found who had been shot and killed. The name of […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — A Provo police officer fatally shot during an encounter with a wanted man had “selflessly sacrificed his life to protect the lives of his fellow officers,” the city’s police chief said Saturday during the officer’s funeral. Police have released few specifics of what happened the night […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has denied an appeal by a man who has been on Utah’s death row for 30 years. The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Claire Egan denies a petition by Ralph Leroy Menzies, who was sentenced to die for the killing of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — There’s a job opening at the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, one where being a dummy is an advantage. Law enforcement officers in the south-central Utah county, which includes the north entrance to Capitol Reef National Park, are looking for a new mannequin to place in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Division of Wildlife Resources has found that a herd of bighorn sheep on Antelope Island has somehow contracted a devastating respiratory disease and is dying off. About 150 animals were counted among the herd last year. But KSL-TV reportsbiologists on Wednesday flew over the island […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a Utah teenager crashed into another car when she covered her eyes as part of the so-called “Bird Box Challenge.” Layton police Lt. Travis Lyman said Friday that the 17-year-old drifted into oncoming traffic and hit another car after she pulled a hat […]
A missing dog is being investigated in Deseret in Millard County after the dog disappeared Thursday and officers found blood in the kennel. The Millard County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the dog according to Lt. Robert Clark. Clark says the family is out of town and a caretaker was […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — Arches and Canyonlands national parks in southeastern Utah are reopening visitor centers that have been closed due to the nearly 3-week-old federal government’s partial shutdown. Parks officials said in Facebook posts that donations from the Canyonlands Natural History Association allowed visitor centers at Arches National Park […]
