SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police groups in Utah have called for The Salt Lake Tribune to apologize after it published an editorial cartoon implying white supremacists have infiltrated law enforcement. Police supporters staged a protest outside The Salt Lake Tribune’s printing press Thursday night after the Utah Sheriffs’ Association […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Voting will look a little different this November. States are turning to stadiums, drive-thrus and possibly even movie theaters as safe options for in-person polling places amid the coronavirus pandemic and fears about mail-in ballots failing to arrive in time to count. The primary season […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Biologists in southern Utah are surveying the damage left by a wildfire that scorched large swaths of land set aside for rare tortoise habitat in southern Utah. The Spectrum reports that on a recent day in late August, they fanned out on a landscape that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As colleges grapple with the coronavirus, institutions across the country are turning campus sewage into a public health tool. At least two schools in Utah and Arizona have quarantined hundreds of students after tests showed the presence of genetic material from the virus in wastewater. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah will aim to be prepared to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it becomes available, a week after the federal government told states to be ready for distribution by Nov. 1. At a weekly briefing Thursday, Herbert did not clarify whether […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Utah wildlife officials plan on issuing additional cougar hunting permits in an attempt to reverse dwindling mule deer populations. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says evidence suggests that reducing the number of cougars may spur an uptick in mule deer populations. The Spectrum reports […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Dixie Center in southern Utah has announced it will keep its name despite previous considerations after voting to rebrand the convention center in June. KUER-FM reported that the center’s board voted 5-2 on Tuesday to keep the name, but incorporate the county’s Greater Zion […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — An organization calling itself Utahns for Medical Freedom wants to repeal a citywide mandate in Provo that would require people to wear facial coverings indoors and outdoors in public areas and at large gatherings. KSTU-TV reported that the group filed the referendum on Tuesday. Mayor Michele […]
In a press release released on Sep. 2, the Utah Sheriff’s Association shared their frustration with the Salt Lake Tribune. The Sheriff’s Association found a cartoon posted by Pat Bagley on Sep. 1 to be a “divisive piece of journalism as tensions are already high in Utah and across our […]
On Sept. 2, a message was sent out to faculty members and parents of students of North Sevier High School saying that they were informed that some students were possibly exposed to a positive COVID-19 case. Due to privacy laws, no additional information will be released about the positive case. […]
