BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Thursday, a group of Democratic lawmakers urged the Biden administration to enact emergency protections for gray wolves in the U.S. West in response to Republican-backed state laws that make it easier to kill the predators. Twenty-one U.S. senators led by New Jersey’s Cory Booker and Michigan’s […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Thursday, the Interior Department issued draft guidelines for a new conservation corps that will allow Native youth to work on projects that benefit their own communities. The department scheduled a series of consultations in late November and early December to get feedback on the guidelines from […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Intermountain Healthcare, Utah’s largest health care provider, announced Wednesday that it will require all its caregivers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to comply with pending federal rules. Dr. Mark Briesacher, the chief physician executive with Intermountain Healthcare, said the hospital system will be complying […]
CAIRO-Various leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are visiting Church members in Cairo this week. They include Elder Randy D. Funk of the Middle East/North Africa Area Presidency and his wife, Andrea, President Jean B. Bingham, the Church’s Relief Society general president, and her husband, Bruc, […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State officials have decided to close and fully drain a reservoir in eastern Nevada to expedite repairs and eliminate potentially dangerous conditions at the 89-year-old Cave Creek Dam sooner than originally was planned over several seasons. Wednesday, Cave Lake will be closed to visitors when the […]
LONDON-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirms three Apostles representing the Salt Lake City-based faith have returned to Great Britain, where they served their missions as young men. President M. Russell Ballard and Elders Quentin L. Cook and Jeffrey R. Holland, have returned to the land of their […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — At least 59,000 meatpacking workers became ill with COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year, which is significantly more than previously thought, according to a new U.S. House report released Wednesday. With workers standing shoulder-to-shoulder along production lines, the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican, abruptly quit the state’s independent redistricting commission after criticizing it for favoring urban areas. Bishop said Monday that the commission’s congressional map proposals favored Democrats. The commission will present its map proposals to the Legislature’s redistricting committee […]
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A woman sentenced to 27 years in prison Tuesday after being in a drunken driving crash that killed a Michigan state trooper. Thomasina Jones pleaded guilty last week in Ionia County Circuit Court to second-degree murder, operating a vehicle with a high blood-alcohol content causing death, operating a […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The amount of rain that fell in Reno the last two days was nearly as much as the previous 12 months combined as rainfall records fell across much of northern Nevada, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. The 2.92 (7.4 cm) inches of rain recorded at […]
