ST. GEORGE, Utah (LDS Church)-Per an official statement released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, early Saturday morning, the St. George LDS Temple was vandalized. This incident occurred around 5:00 am MDT Saturday morning, resulting in the temple being temporarily closed before resuming its operations later in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former employee of a Utah residential youth treatment facility is being accused of assaulting a 16-year-old boy as part of an unofficial “fight club” at the school. The Utah County attorney’s office said Friday that 21-year-old Misifoa Tautofi Seui Matagi hit the teenager at […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s largest electric utility has been granted permission to pass on its federal tax savings to its customers. The Salt Lake Tribune reports state regulators are allowing Rocky Mountain Power to pass on its savings in the form of credits that will offset electrical rates for customers. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Opponents of Utah’s medical marijuana ballot initiative say supporters tried to buy off canvassers asking people to withdraw support for the proposal. Organizers with Drug Safe Utah filed a complaint with the lieutenant governor’s office Tuesday alleging that the campaign manager of pro-medical marijuana group […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah emergency responders are warning residents that low water levels in the state’s rivers don’t make them any less dangerous. Unified Fire Authority Capt. Jay Torgerson told the Deseret News during a water rescue training Thursday that extremely cold water and rocks in the river can present just […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new report shows violent crime in Utah rose by nearly 18 percent in 2016 over the year before. A Utah Department of Public Safety report issued by the department Thursday said that homicides rose by 43 percent from 54 incidents in 2015 to 77 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New legislation from a pair of Republican Utah lawmakers would create the Jurassic National Monument at a dinosaur fossil site and create a conservation area around the rugged San Rafael Swell. Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis said Wednesday their sweeping new land reform […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A ballot initiative that would create a new system for drawing Utah’s state legislative and congressional districts has met the threshold to be placed before voters in November. An updated count of verified signatures posted Thursday by the state’s lieutenant governor’s office shows that the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pizza-for-parking scheme is mostly to blame for a dip in the number of parking tickets issued and fines collected in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the city’s parking officers have written 40,000 fewer tickets this year and collections from overtime fees are down […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop wants to turn northern Utah’s Golden Spike National Historic Site into a national park. Bishop told The Standard-Examiner in Ogden that he’s introducing legislation Thursday that would elevate the status of the site at Promontory Summit where the first transcontinental railroad in country […]
