Late in the evening on Oct. 16 Park Service Rangers at Zion National park encountered a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. When officers attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver fled Eastbound out of the park. During the chase an officer was forced off the road when […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration is threatening to revoke the authority for three Republican-controlled states to handle their own workplace safety regulations because they have refused to adopt rules to protect health care workers from COVID-19. The threats were sent to Arizona, South Carolina and Utah as the U.S. […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A California man drowned after rescuing his child who was struggling to swim in Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah state line. The National Park Service says the family rented a ski boat, toured the lake and stopped in a cove near Warm Creek Bay on Thursday. […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — The water level at Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border has hit a historic low amid a climate change-fueled megadrought engulfing the U.S. West. The milestone reached last week has closed boat ramps and forced some houseboats off the water, leaving tourists and businesses scrambling. Houseboat-rental […]
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Farmers, conservationists and small-town business owners are calling for an end to what they call wasteful uses of Colorado River water. On Thursday, they gathered at Hoover Dam to demand the federal government scrap plans to divert water from Lake Powell upstream to accommodate anticipated […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who refused to wear a mask on an Allegiant flight departing from Utah has been fined $10,500. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that the passenger refused to wear a mask over his mouth and nose on the Feb. 27 flight from Provo, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say an Arizona man drowned at Lake Powell recently when winds prevented him from swimming back to his boat. The 34-year-old Subrahmaniyan Mathimohan died May 22. He was from Phoenix. He drowned after he slid off the rental house boat’s slide without a life […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A U.S. judge has permanently blocked a Las Vegas-based bottled-water brand Real Water from being marketed while an investigation continues into at least one death and multiple cases of liver illness among people who reported drinking it. A court order signed Monday in Las Vegas formalizes […]
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man is claiming he was sexually abused as a Boy Scout and that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints threatened ex-communication when he tried to report it 45 years ago. Attorneys for the man announced a lawsuit Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Three towering concrete stacks that were among the last visual reminders of a shuttered power plant came down Friday. People lined roadways and gathered in parking lots near the northern Arizona city of Page to watch it happen. The 775-foot structures loomed over the Navajo Generating […]
