Six people were ejected from a vehicle and a woman was killed during a rollover crash around 7:00 a.m. Dec. 21 in Wayne County. According to the Utah Highway Patrol a Toyota 4Runner was traveling westbound a mile west of the turn-off to Hanksville on state Rout 24 when for […]
After being confirmed in domestic rabbits in Sanpete County in June, Rabbit hemorrhagic disease has now been confirmed in wild rabbit populations in Wayne County as well. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease serotype 2 (RHDV-2) was confirmed on July 21 after some dead wild cottontail rabbits were found in the Teasdale area […]
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 […]
The first ever virtual Utah Republican state nominating convention was held over the weekend. Here are the people moving on in the race for the positions that effect central Utah. Utah’s second congressional district covers Salt Lake City as well as the rural western and southern portions of Utah. For […]
A teenager from Sanpete County was killed in a motorcycle crash in Wayne County Easter weekend. On Saturday Apr. 11 at approximately 7:03 p.m., the Wayne County Sheriff’s office was dispatched to the Burro Wash area located south of Notom, Utah, for a 17 year old male that was involved […]
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officers are seeking information from the public after multiple deer were illegally shot and left to waste in agricultural fields in Wayne County. On Dec. 9, 2019, DWR conservation officers were notified that two weeks prior (approximately Nov. 23-24), a truck was seen driving […]
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 […]
HANKSVILLE, Utah— A woman from Washington D.C. has died while rappelling a canyon in central Utah. The 33-year-old woman was climbing near Hanksville before falling 40 feet down the slot canyon. Wayne County sheriff’s officials say a canyoneering party told deputies that the woman was coming out of Angel Cove […]
With the winter weather rolling in this week a couple of roads have already been affected. Currently all vehicles traveling on SR-190 in Big Cottonwood Canyon or on SR-210 in Little Cottonwood Canyon are required to have either chains or four-wheel drive. It is expected that other canyon roads will […]
The Utah Department of Natural Resources has extended the closed fire season for parts of central Utah. In a proclamation released by the department they stated that wildfire danger is unseasonably high this year due to weather and dry fuel conditions in central Utah. They also discussed that “minimizing the […]
