SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than 30,000 people crowded to Zion National Park in a single day over Memorial Day weekend as the iconic red-rock landscape at the already crowded park remains highly popular. The Deseret News reports that some visitors waited an hour and a half to ride the shuttle […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An initiative to reform Utah’s nominating system failed to make the ballot after opponents convinced nearly 3,000 people to withdraw their name from a petition in support of the measure, election officials said Tuesday. Initiatives on medical marijuana, redistricting and Medicaid expansion did make the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The coach of a minor league soccer team in Utah is facing multiple charges of domestic assault and attempting to tamper with a witness. Prosecutors in Draper filed four misdemeanor charges against 36-year-old Mark Briggs last Wednesday. Briggs coaches the Real Monarchs, a Herriman-based team […]
VERNAL, Utah (AP) — Officials say they expect full containment of wildfire in northeastern Utah by Thursday night. The Deseret News reports the wildfire began Saturday afternoon about 20 miles (32.2 kilometers) north of Vernal and wildlife officials say it has consumed 0.81 square miles (2.1 square kilometers). Bureau of Land Management […]
Two people are recovering from an ATV rollover in Monroe on Monday evening. According to the Sevier County Sheriff Nate Curtis, the two made a sharp turn and lost control. Latonya Kalua-Jagels was critically injured with head and spine injuries and a 16-year-old was also injured. Neither were wearing helmets. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Opponents of a plan to make it easier for Utah politicians to bypass state party conventions are suing the state’s lieutenant governor and calling for him to be blocked from overseeing the ballot initiative process. The Keep My Voice campaign filed suit Friday calling Spencer […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old Utah boy who shot himself with his father’s gun over the weekend has died. West Valley City police said on Twitter Tuesday that the young boy passed away in the early hours of the morning. The boy’s name has not been […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man freed this weekend after being held in a Venezuelan jail for nearly two years is scheduled to return to Salt Lake City on Monday night after getting medical care and visiting President Donald Trump in Washington. Laurie Holt says family and friends […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A Utah family that has produced several generations of rodeo champions is chronicled in a new book called “The Last Cowboys.” The Wrights family book written by New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch was released May 15. Branch spent more than three years […]
WEBER COUNTY, Utah (AP) — A 19-year-old man in Utah is dead after he was thrown from a UTV that rolled onto him. Weber County Sheriff’s Office authorities say the man was driving a UTV with his 18-year-old brother on Saturday night in a private area called Sunridge north of […]
