BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department is cancelling oil and gas lease sales from public lands through June amid an ongoing review of how the program contributes to climate change, officials said Wednesday. The action does not affect existing leases, and the agency has continued to issue new […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Wednesday’s covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County Utahns fully vaccinated: 819,683 (24.5 percent of Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 8,741 (24.2 percent of Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 97.3 [97.27] percent (383,133-393,862) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.3 [97.28] percent (4,450-4,574) Utah active case percentage: 2.2 [2.17] percent […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife managers have set aside vast areas across several states as habitat critical to the survival of a rare songbird that migrates each year from Central and South America to breeding grounds in Mexico and the United States. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state epidemiologist Angela Dunn, who helped the state navigate the covid-19 pandemic, is leaving her job to take over the Salt Lake County health department, officials announced Tuesday. Dunn was a little-known public health official before the pandemic hit and she was thrust into the […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Tuesday covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County Utahns fully vaccinated: 799,291 (23.9 percent of Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 8,471 (23.4 percent of Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 97.3 [97.29] percent (382,621-393,272) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.2 [97.24] percent (4,446-4,572) Utah active case percentage: 2.2 [2.15] percent […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Health officials on Tuesday reported the Navajo Nation’s first case this year of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but potentially fatal disease spread by infected rodent droppings. The case was confirmed in McKinley County in northwestern New Mexico but it wasn’t known how the person contracted Hantavirus, […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden plans to visit an Albuquerque health care facility as part of a three-day, two-state visit to the U.S. Southwest this week. The White House announced that Biden will be accompanied by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham when she visits the First Choice Community […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Five Atlanta-area private colleges will require students to have received COVID-19 vaccinations before class begins next fall. Emory University, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, the Morehouse School of Medicine and Spelman College made the announcement Monday. The five join dozens of colleges and universities that have made […]
It happened in less than a second. Thirteen-year-old Adam Toledo dropped the gun he’d been holding, turned and began raising his hands just as the officer had commanded. Then the cop fired a single shot, killing the boy in the dark Chicago alley. The graphic video that became the latest […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found. Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument […]
