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BLM Reports Suspicious Fire At Remote Guard Station In Bears Ears 

(Bears Ears National Monument, UT)  –  The Bureau of Land Management is reporting a more than two-week-old fire at a remote guard station.  BLM reports the guard station burned in the Sweet Alice Springs area in Bears Ears sometime before Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s visit earlier this month.  The […]

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Ticket Leads To School Kids To Study Illegal Turns 

(Orem, UT)  –  Two children are trying to teach adults the rules about making left-hand turns at Utah intersections.  Madi and Aubrey Yablonovsky of Orem tell the “Salt Lake Tribune” they began studying the problem after their dad got a ticket for moving into the wrong lane after making a turn.  […]

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LDS Church Opens Paris Temple

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Mormon church is celebrating its first temple open in France. The LDS church yesterday dedicated the new temple in Paris, designed to blend in with the architectural grandeur of its French surroundings. It sits on two acres in the community of Le Chesnay, not […]

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Immigrant Arrests Spike Under Trump

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The numbers of arrests of illegal immigrants without a criminal history are sharply up since President Trump took office. “The Salt Lake Tribune” says ICE agents arrested 245 “noncriminal” immigrants last January through April in Utah and surrounding states compared to 75 the same time […]

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Immigrant Arrests Spike Under Trump

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The numbers of arrests of illegal immigrants without a criminal history are sharply up since President Trump took office. “The Salt Lake Tribune” says ICE agents arrested 245 “noncriminal” immigrants last January through April in Utah and surrounding states compared to 75 the same time […]

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Utah prison tackling problems with sex offender treatment

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah prison officials are scrambling to reform the state’s sex-offender treatment program after an audit found serious flaws in the system that treats nearly a third of the state’s prison population. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that authorities told lawmakers they’re developing new targeted programs […]

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Records: Man charged with rape investigated 6 previous times

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Law enforcement records obtained by a Utah newspaper show police across the state investigated allegations of sexual misconduct against a man before he was charged with raping a Dixie State University student. The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/2rIWnSl ) reports none of the other six investigations […]

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Cedar City Hospital Earns Top Rural Honor 

(Cedar City, UT)  –  Cedar City Hospital is honored as one of the best rural hospitals in the country.  Saint George News reports the National Rural Health Association put the hospital on its “2017 Top 20 Rural Community Hospitals” list.  The association determined its top 20 by looking at qualities like […]

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Utah GOP Elects New Chairman 

(Sandy, UT)  –  A new man is in charge of the state’s GOP.  Delegates picked Rob Anderson, the former chairman of the Davis County Republicans, during their annual convention on Saturday.  Anderson said he wants to drop a lawsuit the party has pending against a law that lets political candidates get […]

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UTA Says Gate Collisions Cost Utahns Over $300K A YearÂ

(Salt Lake City, UT)  –  The Utah Transit Authority says collisions with crossing gates for TRAX and FrontRunner trains are costing Utahns over 300-thousand-dollars a year.  The “Salt Lake Tribune” reports that drivers hit nearly 330 crossing gates last year, with an average cost of repair of about a-thousand-dollars.  A UTA […]

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