SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah County sheriff’s office has recovered the bodies of two teenage girls who went missing on Utah Lake last week. Search and rescue crews discovered 18-year-old Priscilla Bienkowski and 17-year-old Sophia Hernandez on Thursday after being reported missing May 6 by family members. A […]
APACHE COUNTY, Ariz. (AP)-Arizona’s Apache County has now surpasses neighboring McKinley County in New Mexico as having the most COIVD-19 cases on the Navajo Nation. Health officials reported 141 additional COVID-19 cases with eight additional deaths on the tribe’s sprawling reservation that has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak. […]
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)-California coach Justin Wilcox said his staff has looked at potentially conducting preseason training outside the Bay Area if the college football season starts on time and restrictions are in place that won’t allow the Golden Bears to hold camp on campus. Wilcox said Thursday it’s one of […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was supposed to be a virtual public meeting focused on a review of a proposed plan that will govern oil and gas drilling and other development across a vast corner of northwestern New Mexico that is home to a national park and spots important to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Thursday released some of their long-delayed guidance that schools, businesses and other organizations can use as states reopen from coronavirus shutdowns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted six one-page “decision tool” documents that use traffic signs and other graphics to […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Zion National Park has reopened with restrictions after an extended closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The park opened Tuesday and will be operational during daylight hours but the visitor shuttle system will remain closed, The Spectrum reported. Two other Utah National Parks, Arches and Canyonlands, […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska may not make its goal of conducting 3,000 coronavirus tests per day by the end of May through the state’s TestNebraska program, but Gov. Pete Ricketts expressed confidence Thursday that testers will reach that pace “at some point” if residents continue to sign up. His […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two young sisters who died in flash flooding that sent torrents of water roaring into a narrow canyon in the Utah desert were identified by police on Thursday. McKinzley Graff, age 7, and Elexia Graff, 3, were hiking with their mother and uncle in central […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Additional deaths and COVID-19 cases on the Navajo Nation’s sprawling reservation indicates it’s still not safe for residents to go out in public, the tribe’s president said. The tribal health department late Wednesday reported 147 more confirmed COVID-19 cases with 16 additional deaths from the […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal land managers say it will take two decades and cost more than $1 billion over the first six years alone to slash wild horse populations to sustainable levels necessary to protect U.S. rangeland. The Bureau of Land Management’s latest plans envision capturing 200,000 mustangs over […]
