SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A report made public by the White House says Utah leads the country in infrastructure with a C-plus letter grade, revealing the broad need for upgrades across the U.S. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Monday’s report said Utah has 62 bridges and more than […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A top leader with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says political donations made in his name to several Democratic candidates including President Joe Biden, that violate the faith’s political neutrality rules were done by his family. Dieter Uchtdorf said in a statement […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Newly elected Republican Rep. Burgess Owens says he accepts Joe Biden’s win as president and has apologized for characterizing liberals in as Marxists and socialists. Owens is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump and voted Jan. 6 to object to the certification of […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has suspended new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on U.S. lands and waters for 60 days as officials move to reverse the energy and environmental policies of the Trump administration. The suspension announced Thursday follows campaign pledges by President Joe Biden […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — President Joe Biden says he plans to review the Trump administration’s downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest. One is on lands considered sacred to Native Americans who joined environmental groups in suing when the boundaries were redrawn in 2017. The new […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration has completed a review of plans to ease protections for a struggling bird species in seven states in the U.S. West, but there’s little time to put them into action before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. The ground-dwelling, chicken-sized greater sage grouse has […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican governor and governor-elect have condemned the attorney general’s decision to join a Texas lawsuit to invalidate the presidential race results in four battleground states that President Donald Trump lost. Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who will be taking the governor’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The San Juan County Commission has passed a resolution calling on President-elect Joe Biden to restore the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah. Currently, the monument is about 200,000 acres and split into Shash Jaa and Indian Creek national monuments. President Barack […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mitt Romney is sharply criticizing a Republican investigation into Democrat Joe Biden’s son. The Utah Republican says it is “not the legitimate role of government” to try and damage political opponents. His comments Wednesday came as a Senate committee pressed ahead with a review of Hunter […]
In the afternoon on May 9 a Sevier County deputy was dispatched to a vandalism in Monroe. According to the deputy the reporting party said that he had come out to his car that morning to see that someone had stuck between 200 and 300 post it notes on his […]
