SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed its temple at Pocatello, Idaho is to be dedicated November 7. This will occur in three sessions with Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles presiding over the services. The sessions will occur at 9:00 […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Tuesday, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Russell M. Nelson received his doctorate from the University of Utah because of the easing of local covid-19 restrictions. University officials delivered Pres. Nelson his honorary degree citation and doctoral hood during an in-person visit to the Church Administration […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both Republican and Democratic senators pressed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for answers Wednesday after a federal court blocked the Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters. In a sharply worded ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana ordered that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group accused of beating a man to death behind a Utah grocery store may have done so because they believed he gave his pregnant girlfriend a black eye, according to arrest records. Fred Valdamar Ortiz, 41, was chased down and beaten by a group of at […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah state attorney angry about being awakened from a nap has apologized for sending an expletive-laden email to an LGBT politician campaigning to be the first Asian American person elected to the Salt Lake City council. Assistant Utah Attorney General Steven Wuthrich told Darin Mano he […]
Heat Advisory issued June 15 at 10:43PM MDT until June 19 at 12:00AM MDT by NWS Saltlake …HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FRIDAY NIGHT… * WHAT…Temperatures up to 103. * WHERE…Portions of central, northern, southern and southwest Utah. * WHEN…Until midnight MDT Friday night. * IMPACTS…Hot temperatures […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Louisiana who ordered that plans continue for lease sales that were delayed for the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska waters “and all eligible […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Dangerous, record-busting heat spread across the U.S. Southwest on Tuesday and into parts of Utah, Montana and Wyoming as a dome of high pressure hovered over a large swath of the region, pushing temperatures into the triple digits this week and intensifying the risk for wildfires amid […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City set another heat record Tuesday and tied its hottest temperature ever recorded. The airport in Utah’s capital hit 107 degrees, which has only happened twice in the past 147 years — in July 2002 and July 1960, according to the National Weather Service. […]
