SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Monday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed an executive order allowing state workers additional time off to help combat the labor shortage facing schools throughout the state. The order allows state workers — including budget analysts, social workers and highway patrol officers — to take up […]
SAN DIEGO-Saturday, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Quorum of Twelve Apostles visited Old Town San Diego State Historic Park to honor the Mormon Battalion. This band of Latter-day Saints left Fort Leavenworth in Kansas Territory in July 1846 and marched nearly 2,000 […]
DENVER (AP) — A fire raging in an underground Colorado coal field in 1883 sent so much smoke pouring from cracks in the ground that the scene was likened to burning volcanoes and the state’s first mining inspector deemed the blaze “impossible to extinguish.” Nearly 140 years later two fires […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Republica Sen. Mitt Romney tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday and “will be isolating and working remotely for the recommended period of time,” according to a news release from his office. Romney is fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 and is not showing any […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — COVID-19 cases have surged in Utah throughout January, and that’s causing a problem for people who are unsheltered and don’t have a place to isolate. The United Way of Utah County’s Mountainland Continuum of Care Program is a coalition of local nonprofits and government agencies […]
A drama about an undocumented nanny in New York City, a documentary about three exiled dissidents from Tiananmen Square and another doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. Winners were announced Friday evening in a virtual ceremony. “Nanny,” from writer-director Nikyatu Jusu and […]
DENVER (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Colorado rafting outfitters who object to paying a $15 hourly minimum wage to seasonal employees under a new federal rule, rejecting their argument that their permits to use federal land for overnight trips don’t make them federal contractors who […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife commissioners are considering if gray wolf hunting and trapping should continue in areas bordering Yellowstone National Park after 23 of the animals roamed from the park and were killed over the past several months, primarily in Montana. Park officials have urged Montnana to suspend hunting along […]
SALT LAKE CITY-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, via a Friday announcement, confirmed the open house of its Washington D.C. Temple will be extended. “Following a multiyear renovation, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced that the Washington D.C. Temple would be open […]
WASATCH COUNTY, Utah-Late Thursday evening, Wasatch County Search & Rescue conducted a rescue of stranded snowmobilers near Strawberry Reservoir. The records from Wasatch County SAR confirm that at 7:50 pm Thursday night, the snowmobilers, a male and a female in their 70’s, had been due to arrive with their group […]
