SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made her recommendation about whether to reverse former President Donald Trump’s decision to downsize two Utah national monuments — but it wasn’t known what she decided as of Friday. Haaland gave her report to President Biden on Wednesday, according to […]
KAYSVILLE, Utah (AP) —Kaysville police are investigating a possible hate crime after a rainbow pride flag was burned and a note targeting the LGBTQ community was left behind. A Kaysville homeowner told police early Thursday morning that a flag was cut from a flagpole and set on fire in the street, […]
The Biden administration is making available $1 billion in federal grants to expand the availability of high-speed internet on tribal lands. Vice President Kamala Harris, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the funding Thursday. It comes from the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than a dozen people were thrown out of a tour bus that crashed and rolled on Utah S.R. 12 in 2019, killing four Chinese tourists and highlighting a lack of safety standards for bus roofs and windows, U.S. investigators said Thursday. The bus crashed after […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise in 2017, with a federal judge describing the crime as violent and brutal. Prosecutors had sought life in prison for Kenneth Manzanares, who pleaded guilty last year to […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The FBI joined Las Vegas police Thursday to offer a $10,000 reward for information just to identify a boy whose body was found hidden near the main highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump. Police have said it’s clear the child was killed, but haven’t disclosed how. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republican Gov. Spencer J. Cox asked citizens Thursday to pray for rain this weekend to relieve the state from its drought. Cox released a statement calling on Utah citizens to pray for “divine intervention” as an excessive heat warning has been issued for areas […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Latter-day Saint Charities, the charitable arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is continuing financial support for nine refugee resettlement agencies in the United States through a series of grants totaling $5 million US in 2021. The funds are expected to assist more than 9,000 […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn’t happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping along the roughly 55-mile (89-kilometer) route through Alabama, sleeping in tents and near farm buildings under the watch of guards to prevent white supremacist […]
