TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year’s games. Tokyo organizers said Monday the opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2021 — almost exactly one year after the games were due to start this year. “The schedule […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Eight people were injured, at least five of them critically, after their sport utility vehicle collided with a light rail train on Sunday. The crash happened when the westbound SUV hit the side of the northbound TRAX train in South Salt Lake City, Deputy Fire […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former speaker of the Utah House, auto executive and philanthropist Robert Garff died Sunday because of complications of COVID-19, his daughter and the automotive group said. Rep. Melissa Garff Ballard, R-North Salt Lake, posted on Facebook: “My loving dad passed away peacefully today from COVID-19. […]
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP)-A pair of Darth Vaders strode up the aisle of the Cascade County District Courthouse in Great Falls Friday to the opening drumbeats of the Imperial March. Where the prosecuting attorneys normally sit, twin lightsabers stood on the desk, ready for battle. On a television screen that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah congressman who tested positive for the coronavirus has been released from the hospital as the number of cases in the state jumped to more than 600. Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams said on Twitter Saturday that his doctors released him from the hospital after […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The sweeping bill that President Donald Trump signed will help better equip health care systems that serve Native Americans, improve the emergency response time on tribal lands, provide economic relief for tribal members, and help with food deliveries to low-income families and the elderly. Tribes have […]
DENVER (AP) — COVID-19 has launched an unprecedented scope of businesses requiring remote work. However, some jobs just can’t be done remotely. In Colorado’s academic world, there’s a class of workers deemed essential and required to continue work on college campuses. At Colorado State University in Fort Collins, there’s the expected, […]
FRISCO, COLO. (AP) — The absence of tourists has meant lower-than usual patient numbers in hospitals in Colorado‘s mountain communities, which is good news for staffing and supply levels in an area seeing a disproportionately high number of coronavirus cases. The reduction in patients has been attributed to the closure of ski […]
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Grizzly bears are repopulating areas of Montana that haven’t seen them for decades, creating more conflict between livestock, people and bears. Some ranchers are learning they need to do something that doesn’t come naturally — change how they live on the land. As bears were hibernating in their […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A co-defendant in a human smuggling operation told police that a prostitution camp in the Marshall Islands provided many of the pregnant women involved in former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen’s allegedly illegal adoption business. Co-defendant Lynwood Jennet told police that majority of the women were from a […]
