SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City has issued a fireworks ban as drought conditions worsen throughout the state. Tuesday, Mayor Erin Mendenhall stated the ban covers fireworks, including smoke bombs and sparklers. Mendenhall also issued an open burning ban that prohibits people from starting any fires outside. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Rep. John Curtis says he’s tired of hearing that Republicans — his party colleagues — don’t care about climate change or slowing global warming. A former Provo mayor who has served in Congress since 2017, Curtis says Republicans can push for serious climate solutions while holding […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Wednesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced temple sites for the following three locations: Farmington, N.M., Grand Junction, Colo. and Burley, Idaho The Farmington Temple will be constructed on a 6.62-acre site located at the intersection of College Boulevard and Windsor Drive. Plans call for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Turkish businessman has been arrested by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with what authorities say was a biodiesel fraud scheme operated by a Utah business that stole nearly $500 million in government funds. Sezgin Baran Korkmaz was arrested in Austria on Saturday on suspicion of […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A wildfire in northern Arizona crept closer to Flagstaff Tuesday, forcing residents to evacuate from their homes. The lightning-caused fire near was one of dozens that have scorched large swaths of the U.S. West and kept firefighters busy as they hold out hope that the monsoon season […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A family member has identified the victims of a plane crash in Utah last week as a Montana woman and her 6-year-old granddaughter. Alexandria Seigel of Havre, Mont., tells KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City that her mother, Virginia Seigel, 51, and her daughter, Elise Lawrence, were in the plane that […]
Red Flag Warning issued June 23 at 2:51AM MDT until June 24 at 6:00AM MDT by NWS Saltlake …RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 AM MDT THURSDAY FOR DRY THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, […]
The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of the institutions, which over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities, U.S. Interior Secretary […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman will serve up to 30 years in prison for her involvement with the death of a police officer as a teenager, a sentence that comes after the state Supreme Court overturned her original conviction. Meagan Grunwald’s boyfriend fired the fatal shots, but […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The number of people stopped from buying guns through the US background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales, according to new records obtained by the group Everytown for Gun Safety. The FBI numbers […]
