SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker says an app that allows anonymous reporting of school threats has been downloaded thousands of times in the wake of a school shooting in Florida that killed 17 people. KUTV reports that Republican Rep. Steve Eliason of Sandy says the Safe UT […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a 50-year-old Colorado woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash near Moab in eastern Utah. KUTV-TV reports an individual found the body of Cheryl Zimmerman of Lakewood, Colorado near a parked white SUV 12 miles (19 kilometers) north of Moab on Friday morning. […]
The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a student at South Sevier High School after fellow students saw something suspicious on his phone. The student reportedly had been looking at homemade bomb instructions. Fellow students saw the search and reported it to the principal. Sevier County Sheriff, Nate Curtis says […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s state parks director has died unexpectedly. The Department of Natural Resources says Division of Parks and Recreation Director Fred Hayes died Friday at age 58. The department says Hayes’ body was found in his Heber City home and that cause of death is unknown. […]
MILLARD COUNTY, Utah-Per the official Twitter account of UDOT Traffic, the aftermath of early Sunday morning’s winter storm still lingers. As of 11:17 am MST Sunday, northbound Interstate 15 at milepost 137, three miles north of Cove Fort, has been shut down. UDOT’s tweet confirms motorists must use an alternate […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state lawmaker wants to name a highway in southern Utah after President Donald Trump. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Republican Rep. Mike Noel proposed the idea Thursday, in part to thank Trump for shrinking two national monuments that he and other state leaders opposed. […]
Utah lawmakers have rejected two bills that would have raised the state minimum wage. Under House Minority Leader Brian King’s proposal, the wage would have gone from $7.25 an hour to $12 an hour by July 2022. A separate proposal would have given tipped workers one dollar more per hour.
Oil was a reason in the Trump administration’s decision to reduce the size of the Bears Ears National Monument. According to the “New York Times,” the Department of the Interior was already researching potential oil and gas drilling in the Bears Ears National Monument area before President Trump opened a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Republican lawmaker’s plan to expand Medicaid in Utah has passed its first hurdle in the state Legislature. Republican Rep. Robert Spendlove’s plan would expand the state and federal health insurance program to cover about 60,000 of the state’s poor living just under the poverty […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Northwestern Utah residents are bracing for a heavy weekend snowstorm that forecasters say is blowing in with strong winds. The National Weather Service posted storm warnings beginning Friday and extending through late Sunday morning for the Great Salt Lake Desert, Cache Valley and Wasatch Front. […]
