WELLS, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on a train derailment that closed U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada for more than an hour (all times local): 12:35 p.m. A 60-mile (96-kilometer) stretch of U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada has reopened after a train derailment caused a potential hazmat scare. […]
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. (AP) — A 75-year-old Utah woman apparently drove the wrong way on Interstate 80 for nearly 20 miles (32 kilometers) before crashing into an oncoming car, killing both drivers, injuring two others and shutting down part of the interstate near the Nevada-Utah line for several hours. The […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State troopers in California and Nevada are joining forces to step up enforcement next week along more than 600 miles (965 kilometers) of U.S. Interstate 80 from San Francisco to the Nevada-Utah line. The Interstate 80 Initiative scheduled to run from Aug. 27 through Sept. 3 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transportation officials are building a wildlife bridge over a part of Interstate 80 where more than 100 animals have been killed over the last two years. The Utah Department of Transportation the project will close part of eastbound I-80 overnight in Parley’s Canyon Wednesday. Mule […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wyoming Highway Patrol officials are praising a Utah trucker who stopped on to help a trooper wrestling roadside with a man for the trooper’s gun. Trucker Darren Phillips of Taylorsville, Utah, says service with the Marines and the Army National Guard helped him put the […]
