SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is calling on voters in a southeastern Utah county to reject a ballot proposition that could lead to expanding a three-member county commission that Native Americans took the majority of last year. Nez said Tuesday in a statement that the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert has appointed Salt Lake City lawyer Kristine Johnson as a judge for the state district court that serves Salt Lake, Teoele and Summit counties. Johnson is a shareholder with the Parsons Behle & Latimer law firm and she has practiced law since […]
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) — Officials in a Utah community say they’ve received “more than a few” complaints over a family’s Halloween display that includes a guillotine chopping off the heads of baby dolls. However, the city attorney for Brigham City, Michael Christiansen, said the display isn’t a public nuisance […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is running out of bar licenses for potential business owners again after a similar shortage two years ago, the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said. The liquor commission handed out its last 2019 bar permits Tuesday to two establishments in Lehi and West […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Freezing temperatures normally seen only during the heart of winter are sweeping across Utah as long-standing records fall in several spots across the state. National Weather Service meteorologist Monica Traphagen said Tuesday that more records are expected to be broken overnight as temperatures dip even […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a FedEx Ground manager on accusations that he accepted bribes from multiple Utah truck company owners who paid more than $1 million to secure hundreds of millions in revenue over the last 10 years. Ten people were charged Monday in U. […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — A centennial event celebrating Zion National Park’s founding 100 years ago is planned Nov. 19 at Dixie State University in St. George. The park’s nonprofit partner, Zion National Park Forever Project , said the 7:30 p.m. event is free and open to the public, with tickets available online […]
Thousands of people find their Christmas and holiday trees on public lands every year. The BLM Utah will begin selling non-commercial permits to cut pinyon pine, juniper, and fir trees on Nov. 4. The Manti-La Sal National Forest will begin selling Christmas tree permits Nov. 18 until sold out […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The governing board in Arizona’s most populous county has suspended an elected official accused of running a human smuggling scheme involving pregnant women from the Marshall Islands brought to the U.S. to give birth for adoptions. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to suspend […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Republicans in states including Wyoming, Utah and Ohio plan to keep pushing for death-penalty repeal even as U.S. officials move toward resuming executions. A national group, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, released a statement Monday saying the death penalty is costly and prone to error. […]
