(Brighton, UT) — Flooding is affecting multiple parts of Utah. Big Cottonwood Canyon is closed to uphill traffic while crews work to clear SR-190. In Southern Utah, there were flash flood warnings issued yesterday afternoon for parts of Kane and Washington counties. Life-threatening flooding is possible in Zion National Park, […]
(Huntington, UT) — Multiple roads are being cleaned up because of flooding in Emery, Carbon and Sanpete counties. In Emery, part of state Route 31 was shut down for a time in Huntington Canyon because of debris caused by floods. It was a similar story for state Route 28 in […]
The Uinta Basin Railway project can continue forward after a landmark decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. They upheld the federal environmental review of the project opening the door for the construction of the 88-mile rail line, which will connect the Uintah Basin to the national freight network. According […]
On Feb. 22, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum joined Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Utah Senator John Curtis to sign an agreement between the Bureau of Land Management and the Utah Trust Lands Administration to complete the final step of a historic land exchange. According to a press release, […]
SALT LAKE CITY — The first case of avian flu in wild birds in Utah was confirmed in April, and now the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has confirmed the virus has spread to wild birds in three additional counties, most likely due to the fall migration. The virus had […]
An East Carbon man was recently charged in connection with the illegal killing of a 19-inch buck deer. Jesse Davis, age 36 from East Carbon, was charged in Carbon County’s 7th District Court with wanton destruction of protected wildlife, a class A misdemeanor, on Mar. 27. His initial court appearance […]
Carbon and Sevier counties will get some help from the feds to help combat the opioid epidemic. The Department of Agriculture’s Office of Rural Development is providing the counties with nearly 400-thousand dollars. County leaders say the money will be used to provide ambulances that are equipped to treat overdose […]
CARBONVILLE, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a stretch of U.S. Highway 6 in central Utah was closed by a wrong-way crash involving a tanker truck that spilled crude oil into a nearby river. The Carbon County sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post the early Friday morning wreck near Carbonville […]
CARBON COUNTY, Utah-Per the official Twitter account of UDOT, utility work on U.S. Highway 6 in Carbon County will cause delays until mid-afternoon. This has caused the right lane of eastbound U.S. Highway 6 at milepost 236 (the junction with Utah S.R. 139) to be shut down until roughly 3:30 […]
