SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Thursday, administrators at Primary Children’s Hospital confirmed they are putting non-emergency surgeries and medical procedures on hold, due in part to an influx of COVID-19 patients. The Salt Lake City hospital is seeing an “unprecedented” volume of patients exceeding typical winter surge levels, hospital administrator Dustin […]
TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (AP) — A man who exchanged gunfire with a police officer in suburban Salt Lake City Thursday died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. A police officer responding to a suspicious vehicle in Taylorsville at around 4:30 a.m. tried to stop a man but he ran away […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Food banks across the country are pursuing major expansion projects driven in part by their experiences during the pandemic, when they faced an explosion of need. “So many people who had never had to ask for help found themselves in a position of needing it and not […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — An iconic western starring Clint Eastwood has been dubbed in the Navajo language. The movie, “A Fistful of Dollars” or “Béeso Dah Yiníłjaa’” in Navajo will be screened for free this month on or near the reservation that extends into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. […]
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Mohave County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the death of a Kingman jail inmate. They said detention officers found an inmate hanging in his cell around 11 p.m. Monday. The inmate — identified as 66-year-old Mark Alan Sweat of St. George, Utah — was transported to a […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Tribal grassroots groups say the Arizona Corporation Commission has approved a smaller amount recommended for tribal and rural communities to transition away from coal economies. The commission is meeting this week as part of a proceedings for a rate increase request from Arizona Public Service Co. As […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Tribal grassroots groups say the Arizona Corporation Commission is giving Navajos, Hopis and rural communities in northern Arizona only token amounts of funding as they rebuild their economies in the wake of coal plant and mine closures. The commission met Tuesday as part of proceedings for a […]
SALT LAKE CITY-This week, the Utah Transit Authority confirms riders with a valid boarding pass for the day of their flight to or from Salt Lake City International Airport can ride UTA for free, through the next three months. This excludes the Park City to Salt Lake City Connect and […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation decided not to send water rushing through the Grand Canyon this month to rebuild beaches for campers and sandbars for fish because of persistent drought, officials said. An abundance of sand in the Colorado River system gives the agency an opportunity […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Tuesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed its temple at Buenos Aires, Argentina is reopening to Phase 2 of the Salt Lake City based-faith’s reopening methodology. Phase 2 consists of being open for all living ordinances only with restrictions. The Buenos Aires Temple was originally […]
