CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, N.M. (AP) — A few big rigs carried oilfield equipment on a winding road near Chaco Culture National Historical Park, cutting through desert badlands and sage. Mobile homes and traditional Navajo dwellings dotted the landscape, with a smattering of natural gas wells visible in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has tested positive for COVID-19. Reyes is fully vaccinated, but tested positive last week after suffering cold symptoms, his office said in a statement Monday. His family has tested negative. The Republican is involved in numerous lawsuits challenging COVID-19 vaccine […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republicans fighting President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandates are wielding a new weapon against the White House rules: natural immunity. They contend that people who have recovered from the virus have enough immunity and antibodies to not need COVID-19 vaccines, and the concept has been invoked […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For decades, the U.S. Forest Service’s practice of putting out wildfires was a huge success. But the policy backfired, setting the stage for the massive destructive wildfires that have flared with increasing regularity across the West. While putting out fires remains a priority, deliberately setting […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday said it will consider new measures to protect greater sage grouse, a bird species once found across much of the U.S. West that has suffered drastic declines in recent decades due to oil and gas drilling, grazing, wildfires and other pressures. […]
DENVER (AP) — President Joe Biden has appointed former Colorado House Speaker KC Becker as regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Colorado Sun reports that Becker’s appointment was announced Thursday by the White House. Becker, an environmental attorney, served four terms in the Colorado Legislature and was House speaker […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Thursday, Utah became the latest state to open COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to all adults despite it not yet being authorized by the U.S. government. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox announced the change during his monthly news conference on PBS Utah. Utah is one of dozens […]
HEBER CITY, Utah- 1:15 pm Heber Light & Power confirmed power has been restored in the area. They cited a bad piece of underground wiring as the cause. Power is restored. A bad piece of underground wire caused the outage. — Heber Light & Power (@heberutahpower) November 18, 2021 12:36 […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After watching scammers make off with more than $20 billion in fraudulent California unemployment benefits during the pandemic, state housing officials were wary of a repeat when the federal government poured money into the state and told them to use it to pay off people’s unpaid […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A panel of Utah lawmakers advanced new proposed rules for transgender girls to play on high school sports teams Wednesday. Students would have to complete one year of hormone therapy and change the sex designation on their birth certificate before they could compete on girls’ […]
