The IOC is in talks with three possible bidders to host the Winter Olympics in the future. Former Winter Games hosts Salt Lake City and Sapporo were confirmed along with 1992 Summer Games host Barcelona. The Catalonian city would spread events across the Pyrenees region and look for venues outside […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A California teenager who survived nearly 30 hours alone in the snowy Utah mountains says he kept himself awake with phone alarms, built a snow cave for shelter and held a special beaded bracelet to keep his hopes up. Seventeen-year-old Nicolas Stacy-Alcantara of Frenso says he […]
Police have arrested demonstrators who were camping in a park surrounding Salt Lake City Hall to protest the treatment of homeless people. The Salt Lake Tribune reports 17 members of the Take Shelter Coalition were arrested early Sunday. Police said four people were booked into Salt Lake County jail and […]
MILLCREEK, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a California teenager who went missing while hiking in the snowy Utah mountains has been found alive. The Deseret News reports the 17-year-old was found Friday and flown out of a canyon east of Salt Lake City by helicopter to a hospital. Authorities say […]
A search is underway in a canyon east of metro Salt Lake City for a missing 17-year-old hiker from California. The United Police Department says the boy was visiting a friend and hasn’t been seen since he took an Uber to Millcreek Canyon Thursday morning to hike for the day. […]
Salt Lake City leaders have called for immediate pedestrian safety improvements after three men were fatally struck while trying to cross the street near a new homeless resource center. Police say four crashes including three deaths have occurred in the area since the November opening of the 300-bed men’s resource […]
The light rail line that goes through the suburb of South Salt Lake has fueled a residential housing boom over the last four years. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that more than 2,800 apartments, town houses and other homes have been built near TRAX lines and stations since 2015 in the […]
Hundreds of people have rallied in Salt Lake City to support impeaching President Donald Trump. Speakers at the Tuesday night event included former appeals-court judge Fred Voros and former Congresswoman Karen Shepherd. Attendees carried signs proclaiming no one is above the law and urging Republican Sen. Mitt Romney to do what protesters […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake City man faces criminal charges for shooting at a stolen truck fitted with a snowplow after it crashed into his SUV. At least one shot fired by 55-year-old Jon Michael Clara on Nov. 23 struck a family’s car, passing between those inside […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A renewed national push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment has come to conservative Utah, where supporters have launched a long-shot bid to become the tipping point state, despite opposition from the influential Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Utah is one of several […]
