WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. uranium mining companies and nuclear power plant operators are hoping for a bailout in the name of national security. President Donald Trump is scheduled to get recommendations Thursday from a federal task force studying ways to revive domestic uranium mining. The Nuclear Energy Institute representing uranium […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Health has confirmed the first vaping-related death in the state. Department officials say the Salt Lake County resident was under the age of 30 and died at their residence without being hospitalized prior to their death. Health officials and a medical […]
CRAIG, Colo. (AP) — A Utah counties coalition has asked the federal government to pull a rail route from consideration after a Colorado agency expressed opposition. Craig Daily Press reports that the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado sent a letter to the federal government saying the proposed Craig rail route would […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on an Arizona county official accused of human smuggling in an adoption fraud scheme (all times local): 1:38 p.m. Officials in three states say they will not try to undo or interfere with dozens of adoptions done as part of a human smuggling scheme that […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah law enforcement report says there were fewer crimes overall in the state last year, although the number of sexual assaults increased for the fifth year in a row. The Daily Herald reported Tuesday that the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification published the annual Crime in Utah […]
LAYTON, Utah (AP) — Police say one person has been injured in a shooting at a mall in northern Utah. KUTV reports Layton police said Tuesday that a suspect was shot by police and taken to the hospital in the wake of the shooting, which occurred in the late afternoon at the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will make his next foreign ministry trip to four Asian countries. The church announced Tuesday that Russell M. Nelson will visit Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore and Indonesia in November. He plans to meet with government […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court has stayed the execution of a Navajo man convicted of the murder of a 63-year-old fellow tribal member and her 9-year-old granddaughter. Lezmond Mitchell is the only Native American on federal death row. His execution was scheduled for Dec. 11. But the 9th […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah health officials say the number of cases of lung damage linked to vaping is up to 76, with 14 more potential cases being investigated. The state Department of Health announced the new tally Monday, a rise in the 71 cases reported earlier. Officials said […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The American Bar Association has joined an appeal challenging the death sentence of a Nevada man it says was mentally ill when he was convicted of the 1998 hatchet slaying of a campus police officer. The national group of lawyers and professional legal scholars is asking […]
