SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) — Salt Lake City officials have announced plans to turn an eclectic community known as Hobbitville into a public art park amid efforts to protect the property from development. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday that the Salt Lake City Council approved a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials say a woman who was in hospice care in a long-term facility became the fifth person to die in Utah after contracting the coronavirus, State epidemiologist Angela Dunn said Tuesday the woman died in the Weber-Morgan County area and no one else has […]
The Central Utah Public Health Department has announced the first confirmed case of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in a resident of the Central Utah Health District (Juab, Millard, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier and Wayne counties). According to the CUPHD, the confirmed case is a male, over 60 years of age, and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The governor of Utah has signed bills that place new rules on abortion providers in the state and remove the threat of jail time for polygamists. Republican Gov. Gary Herbert approved bills over the weekend that make the penalty for multiple marriages similar to a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah medical association has rescinded a recommendation it made last week on behalf of state health officials for doctors to treat coronavirus patients using malaria drugs. The about-face by the Utah Medical Association came after a group of infectious disease doctors pushed back over […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Four people have died in Utah from complications associated with the coronavirus. State officials on Monday warned people to continue staying in their homes to prevent the disease from spreading and eventually sickening more people than the health care system can handle. More than 800 […]
There was a fatal car crash on Mar. 30 on SR-100 west of Fillmore. Around 12:00 p.m. a landowner was burning stubble from a field next to the highway and the smoke was blowing across the roadway reducing visibility. Near that same time a Buick Century and a Ford truck […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For grandparents all over the world, being protected from the coronavirus pandemic has meant a piercing distance from their loved ones. Children don’t seem to be getting seriously ill as often, but likely spread the virus. Older adults are at higher risk of complications from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (Deseret News) — Eight people were injured, at least five of them critically, after their sport utility vehicle collided with a light rail train on Sunday. South Salt Lake City Deputy Fire Chief Rodger Hoffman told the Deseret News that the crash happened when the westbound SUV hit […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former speaker of the Utah House, auto executive and philanthropist Robert Garff has died of COVID-19. His daughter, state Republican Rep. Melissa Ballard, announced the death on her Facebook page Sunday. Garff was a prominent Utah businessman and chairman of the Ken Garff Automotive Group, […]
