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Utah Average Gas Price Eases Up A Tiny Bit

Utah Average Gas Price Eases Up A Tiny Bit

(Beaver, UT) — Utah’s average gas price is easing up a tiny bit, but that’s not much consultation to drivers. Triple-A says the statewide average is now four-dollars and 16-cents. That’s a half-cent decrease. The most expensive average price is in Beaver County where it’s four-47. The cheapest gas can […]

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Gas Keeps Rising As Iran War Continues

Gas Keeps Rising As Iran War Continues

(Manila, UT) — Gas prices are still rising in Utah as America’s war with Iran continues. Statewide, the average price for a gallon of self-serve regular is now four-dollars and 17-cents. Daggett County has the most expensive average price at four-dollars and 37-cents. Triple-A says the least expensive gas can […]

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GOEO Board Approves Incentives for IRRX and MCM Engineering II, Inc

GOEO Board Approves Incentives for IRRX and MCM Engineering II, Inc

Yesterday the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity board approved tax incentives for two companies, Integrated Rail and Resources, Inc. and MCM Engineering II, to support job creation and business investment in Iron and Uintah counties. According to a press release from the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, “together, the […]

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Supreme Court Clears Path for Uinta Basin Railway

Supreme Court Clears Path for Uinta Basin Railway

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 […]

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Utah Finalizes Federal, State Land Transaction

Utah Finalizes Federal, State Land Transaction

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, […]

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Fisherman dies after falling through ice in eastern Utah

Fisherman dies after falling through ice in eastern Utah

VERNAL, Utah (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a 52-year-old angler who fell through the ice on a reservoir in eastern Utah. Uintah County sheriff’s officials say Travis Hanchett, of Vernal, was fishing near the west inlet of Steinaker Reservoir when the ice broke Saturday morning. Emergency crews […]

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Uintah County gets scrutiny for funds used on tubing hill

Uintah County gets scrutiny for funds used on tubing hill

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Government leaders in Uintah County are defending the decision to use several hundred thousand dollars in coronavirus relief funding to build a snow tubing hill. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Buckskin Hills Ski and Snow Tubing Hill opened earlier this month outside of Vernal […]

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9 Utah counties transition to new COVID-19 risk category

9 Utah counties transition to new COVID-19 risk category

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The governor of Utah says nine rural counties will move into the green health risk status beginning Friday after recording some of the state’s lowest COVID-19 case counts and hospitalization rates. KUTV-TV reported that the counties are Beaver, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Millard, Piute, Uintah […]

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Lost snowmobile rider dies, companion survives in Utah park

Lost snowmobile rider dies, companion survives in Utah park

DENVER (AP) — Authorities say only one of two missing Colorado snowmobile riders was found alive after the men were stranded inside a remote area of Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument. The Denver Post reported the 65-year-old who was rescued and the 58-year-old who did not survive were located Saturday. The […]

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Wayne County now a Second Amendment Sanctuary

Wayne county has declared itself as a Second Amendment Sanctuary. Wayne county Commissioners passed an ordinance declaring that the enforcement of any new gun control measures passed by the federal or the state government will be prohibited. It also prohibits the use of any public funds to restrict the rights […]

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