SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal that would have precluded parents from defending themselves against child endangerment charges if they kick a kid out for being LGBTQ has stalled in a committee hearing. Republican lawmakers on Monday in a House committee meeting opted not to vote on the bill […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are using their final week of the legislative session to settle a budget that will top $15 billion. The budget legislators are circling around this week includes $68 million to pay for 10,000 extra students in schools, $116 million for districts to raise […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials are warning residents about phone scams targeting those with solar panels on their homes and businesses. Julie Price with the state Department of Commerce says there has been a rise in the number of solar-related phone scams in the last two months. Rocky […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first Filipino-American bishop ordained in the United States is set to be installed as the leader of Salt Lake City’s Catholic diocese. The official installation for the 63-year-old Bishop Oscar Azarcon Solis is scheduled for Tuesday at the Cathedral of the Madeleine. Solis will […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.1 percent in January for the third month in a row. The Department of Workforce Services on Friday released employment figures for January. The data show about 47,800 residents were jobless that month but looking for work. Utah’s unemployment […]
LAYTON, Utah (AP) — A trash-burning plant that supplies steam for Hill Air Force Base will close due to what officials say is reduced demand and a need for costly upgrades. The Standard-Examiner (https://goo.gl/SWCC1M ) reports that closure this year of the Davis Energy Recovery Facility in Layton will eliminate […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s House of Representatives has passed a bill that could allow restaurants to stop shielding diners from seeing alcoholic drinks as they’re prepared. House lawmakers voted 58-10 late Friday afternoon to approve the measure, sending it to the Senate for consideration. Utah’s Senate will have […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man arrested last week in the 1977 killing of a Salt Lake City teen has been extradited to Utah. The Deseret News (http://bit.ly/2mw9rus ) reports 59-year-old Patrick McCabe of Bell, Florida, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Sunday. Authorities accuse him of […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a man who apparently fell to his death while hiking in Zion National Park in southern Utah. Park spokesman John Marciano says other visitors hiking the West Rim Trail in Refrigerator Canyon found the man’s body Friday morning. […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — Police in Moab say two teenagers are dead after their vehicle crashed on the way home from a prom. They say the teens were driving home when their car went off the road on La Sal Loop Road. Police say the vehicle rolled multiple times and […]
