SALT LAKE CITY-Friday, the Utah House of Representatives voted to overturn mask mandates in Salt Lake and Summit Counties imposed earlier this month. This means that Wasatch County residents who travel into Summit County for various reasons will not be required to wear a mask. The joint resolution to terminate […]
DENVER (AP) — Colorado, the U.S. government and a gold mining company have agreed to resolve a longstanding dispute over who’s responsible for continuing cleanup at a Superfund site that was established after a massive 2015 spill of hazardous mine waste that fouled rivers with a sickly yellow sheen in […]
U.S. households can now request free at-home COVID-19 test kits through a new Biden administration program. But when the government rolls out new initiatives, such as the stimulus checks, scammers typically find ways to take advantage. This time, watch out for lookalike websites when requesting your tests. These scam sites […]
Heber Valley Animal Services Supervisor Justin Hatch received the 2021 Utah Animal Control Officers Association’s Officer of the Year Award. Supervisor Hatch has given a huge effort to branding and running the animal services department for over 21 years. During this time he was tasked with rebranding the department. This […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Thursday evening, Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox called for keeping children in school during these times during his State of the State address. Additionally, he cautioned against making voting more difficult and lamented destructive political divisions during his State of the State address. Cox said […]
Vermont legislators are again taking up a proposed constitutional amendment to make it clear that slavery and indentured servitude are prohibited, as some other states have done. Vermont’s constitution currently says no person 21 or older should serve as a slave unless bound by their own consent or “by law […]
CAMERON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona utility has signed an agreement with the Navajo Nation to get solar power from a new facility on the reservation. The Salt River Project and the Navajo Nation already had partnered on two other solar facilities in Kayenta that serve 28,500 homes and businesses […]
A Rhode Island man who authorities say fled the U.S. and faked his death to evade prosecution for rape and financial fraud has been arrested after skipping his court date in Scotland, police said Thursday. Police Scotland said officers arrested Nicholas Alahverdian in the Woodlands area of Glasgow after a warrant was […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Jicarilla Apache Nation has agreed to lease more of its water to help address dwindling supplies in the Colorado River Basin, officials announced Thursday. The agreement involves this tribe, the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and The Nature Conservancy. The tribe has agreed to lease […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil-rights investigation into how LGBTQ students are disciplined at Provo, Utah-based Brigham Young University. The complaint under investigation came after the school said it would still enforce a ban on same-sex dating even after that section was […]
