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US Labor Department warns 3 GOP states over COVID rules

PHOENIX (AP) — Tuesday, the Biden administration threatened  to revoke the authority for three Republican-controlled states to handle their own workplace safety enforcement because they have refused to adopt rules to protect health care workers from COVID-19. The threats were sent to Arizona, South Carolina and Utah as the U.S. […]

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Guardsman Pass Is Closed For Season

Guardsman Pass Is Closed For Season

WASATCH COUNTY, Utah-Because of the significant snowfall that has occurred this season already at Guardsman Pass, it will remain closed for the remainder of the season per Tuesday news. 🚧 #RoadClosureUpdate🚧 👋  #BCC #SR190 travelers – #GuardsmanPass will remain closed for the season due to ongoing winter weather conditions. This […]

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Rendering Released For Farmington Temple

Rendering Released For Farmington Temple

SALT LAKE CITY-Tuesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released an exterior rendering of the Farmington New Mexico Temple. The link is available as follows: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/rendering-released-for-a-temple-in-the-western-us  

Utah lab to analyze DNA evidence from Atlanta child murders

ATLANTA (AP) — A Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a string of killings committed in Atlanta during the 1970s and 1980s, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said. Monday, Bottoms tweeted city investigators were traveling to Salt Lake City to provide “old DNA evidence” to a private lab. “It is […]

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UDOT reveals four alternative concepts for western route in Heber City

UDOT reveals four alternative concepts for western route in Heber City

HEBER CITY, Utah-In regard to the Heber Valley Corridor EIS statement that has warranted much discussion this autumn, UDOT has revealed four alternative concepts for a western route in Heber City. They are depicted in this video: Four alternative concepts for a western route have been developed by @UtahDOT. For […]

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Winter Weather Advisory

Winter Weather Advisory

Winter Weather Advisory issued October 19 at 12:​18​AM MDT until October 19 at 12:​00​PM MDT by NWS Saltlake …WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY… * WHAT…Snow. Snow accumulations of 6-12 inches with locally higher amounts. * WHERE…Wasatch Mountains South of I-80, Wasatch Mountains I- 80 North […]

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a humpback chub in the Colorado River in Colorado near the Utah border. The humpback chub, a rare fish found only in the Colorado River basin, has been brought back from the brink of extinction after decades of protection, though continued work is needed to ensure its survival, federal authorities said Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, in reclassifying the species from endangered to threatened status. (Travis Francis/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

US formally removes Colorado River fish’s endangered status

DENVER (AP) — Monday, federal authorities confirmed the humpback chub, a rare fish found only in the Colorado River basin, has been brought back from the brink of extinction after decades of protection. However,  they said, work must continue to ensure its survival. The fish, which gets its name from […]

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Donates $2 Million To Museum

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Donates $2 Million To Museum

OKLAHOMA CITY-The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated $2 million (US) to the First Americans Museum of Oklahoma City to assist Native American tribes in learning more about their ancestral roots. Elder Kyle S. McKay of the Seventy and several Native American Church members presented this gift during […]

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Environmentalists secure water rights for Great Salt Lake

Environmentalists secure water rights for Great Salt Lake

FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — In an effort to help save the shrinking Great Salt Lake, environmentalists are attempting a novel idea: securing water rights for a terminal system. The Great Salt Lake is now nearly a foot below its last recorded level in 1963, alarming environmentalists and Utah’s policymakers. “Right […]

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Workers near Zion homeless amid housing crunch, tourism bump

Workers near Zion homeless amid housing crunch, tourism bump

VIRGIN , Utah (AP) — A hot wind whipped across the red sand just outside of Zion National Park where a woman and her dogs live in a 1970s camper because she can’t find housing in Springdale, where she works. After four years of working at Springdale’s Bit and Spur […]

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