FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. (AP) — More than 230 homes on the Navajo Nation have been connected to the electric grid as part of a pilot project. The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority worked with volunteer utility crews from across the country on the project that wrapped up last month. The goal […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge says the time has come to let a community board have final decision-making authority about who is entitled to buy homes and properties in a trust that once belonged to Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect, ending court oversight that began 14 years ago. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wildlife officials say a black bear has been euthanized after a child was injured during a Boy Scout camping trip. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources spokeswoman Faith Jolley says the boy suffered minor scratches when the bear disturbed his tent south of Salt Lake City […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah-based movie-filtering company has been ordered to pay more than $62 million to Disney and other Hollywood studios. A California jury decided the damages Monday against the company VidAngel, which had ripped the movies from DVDs and then streamed them for $1 per view […]
The last time Tanna Jo Fillmore talked with her mother, she was in a Utah jail, angry, pleading and desperate. She’d called every day that past week, begging for help. I need my medicine, she demanded. I have to get out of here! she screamed. Fillmore was in the Duchesne […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s lieutenant governor has raised more than $250,000 in his run for the state’s top job in 2020. Republican Spencer Cox’s campaign released the figures on Monday and touted the number of small donations he’s received. The campaign says he’s received more than 1,000 online […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah couple and five of their nine children are recovering from injuries after the balcony on their home collapsed. Spring City police say the accident occurred about 9:30 p.m. Sunday. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Adam Burningham, his wife Deirdre and five children were […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A government watchdog will investigate whether the U.S. Interior Department broke the law by making plans to open up lands cut from a Utah national monument by President Trump to leasing for oil, gas and coal development. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico said […]
CACHE COUNTY, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man was pronounced dead after being found face down in an irrigation ditch in northern Utah. Cache County Sheriff’s Deputies say he was found early Monday morning by a neighbor who called 911. The neighbor pulled him from the pipe. When deputies […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Flooding from rapid snow melt has closed a campground and Great Basin National Park near the Nevada-Utah line and triggered flood warnings into Wednesday for parts of southern Elko County in northeast Nevada. A Park Service official said Monday the Baker Creek Campground was closed Friday […]
