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Pocatello Temple To Be Dedicated November 7

Pocatello Temple To Be Dedicated November 7

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 […]

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Pres. Nelson Receives Honorary Degree From The University of Utah

Pres. Nelson Receives Honorary Degree From The University of Utah

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 […]

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Senators Press Interior Secretary Haaland on Oil Lease Pause

Senators Press Interior Secretary Haaland on Oil Lease Pause

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 […]

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Group Killed Man for Beating Pregnant Girlfriend, Police Say

Group Killed Man for Beating Pregnant Girlfriend, Police Say

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 […]

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Utah State Attorney Apologizes for Email to LGBT Politician

Utah State Attorney Apologizes for Email to LGBT Politician

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 […]

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Heat Advisory

Heat Advisory issued June 15 at 10:​43​PM MDT until June 19 at 12:​00​AM 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 […]

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Elder and Sister Renlund Say Joseph Smith  Helped Strengthen American Democracy

Elder and Sister Renlund Say Joseph Smith Helped Strengthen American Democracy

SALT LAKE CITY-Elder Dale N. Renlund of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his wife, Sister Ruth Lybbert Renlund shared thoughts on the importance of religious freedom Tuesday.  

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2019, file photo, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry speaks in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday, June 15, 2021, by a federal judge in Louisiana.  U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana’s Republican attorney general, Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states. Doughty's ruling granting a preliminary injunction to those states said his order applies nationwide. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Federal judge blocks Biden’s pause on new oil, gas leases

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 […]

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A pedestrian takes a bottle of water at a Salvation Army hydration station during a heatwave as temperatures hit 115-degrees, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

US West Swelters in Record-Busting Heat, Risking Wildfires

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 […]

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Amelia Gotbetter stands at the Great Salt Lake Tuesday, June 15, 2021, near Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City set another heat record Tuesday, June 15, 2021, and experienced its hottest day of the year as the state's record-breaking heat wave persists. Utah's capitol hit 104 degrees, breaking the previous heat record for that date of 103 degrees, according to information from the National Weather Service. On Monday, Salt Lake City hit 103 degrees to break a heat record for that date set nearly 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Salt Lake City ties hottest temperature ever recorded

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. […]

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