SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Highway Patrol says the number of arrests related to drunken driving dropped during the weekend before New Year’s Day compared to the year before. KUTV-TV reports state police made 45 arrests for driving under the influence on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Lt. Todd Royce […]
Three people, including two children, are recovering after a crash near Gunnison Friday night. The car they were traveling in left the roadway and overturned, according to Utah Highway Patrol officials. A 35-year-old and, 10-year-old and 5-year old were all taken to the hospital as a precaution. They were all […]
Fire officials are investigating a blaze that damaged a home in Glenwood on Tuesday. The Richfield City Fire Department responded to a fire after people in the home said they smelled smoke and thought there was something wrong with the chimney. When crews arrived, they found flames coming out of […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Thomas S. Monson had died at the age of 90. LDS Church Director of Media Relations, Eric Hawkins, said Monson died at 10 p.m. Tuesday while surrounded by family at his home in Salt Lake City. Hawkins said Monson died from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators on Tuesday were combing through a mangled Greyhound bus to determine what caused it to careen from a road in the Utah desert on New Year’s Eve, killing a 13-year-old girl and injuring 12 other people. The bus was carrying 14 people, including the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tanner Ainge is planning to make another run for public office after his failed bid for Congress, this time for the Utah County Commission. Ainge, a business consultant and son of Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge, finished last in a three-way GOP primary to replace […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump is “very sad” that Utah Republican Orrin Hatch has decided to leave the Senate rather than run for re-election this year. Trump had been encouraging the 83-year-old senator to seek an eighth term. But Hatch announced Tuesday that he will […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Tuesday he will not seek re-election after serving more than 40 years in the Senate, opening the door for former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to run for his seat. Hatch, 83, said he’s always been a fighter, “but every […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah avalanche experts are warning backcountry skiers to be extra cautious due to a thin early season snowpack that is the lowest in four decades. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that a weather gauge near the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon east of Salt Lake […]
(New Harmony, UT) – The eight-year-old boy who plunged into an icy pond in Washington County is now at home. A Facebook post by the Washington County Sheriff’s deputy who helped save the boy indicates the eight-year-old was released from the hospital over weekend. He chased his dog onto a […]
