BILLINGS, Mont. — President Joe Biden shut down oil and gas lease sales from the nation’s vast public lands and waters in his first days in office, citing worries about climate change. Now his administration has to figure out what do with the multibillion-dollar program without crushing a significant sector of the […]
BOSTON — Early last March, when the COVID-19 crisis still felt like a remote threat, Charlie Baker flew off with members of his family to a ski vacation in Utah. It would be the last taste of normalcy the Republican governor would enjoy for the next year. Three days later, […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Monday reported no new COVID-19 cases and no deaths. It was the second consecutive day that the tribe has not recorded a coronavirus-related death. The death toll remains at 1,233 since the pandemic began with the number of confirmed cases at […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Refugee advocates in Utah have started to prepare for a rise in the number of people resettled from foreign countries in the state as the Biden administration implements new immigration policies. Asha Parekh, director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services’ refugee services office, told the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An adult film star has called on Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox to veto a bill that would mandate pornography filters on all new cellphones and tablets sold in the state. Cherie DeVille said in a letter published Saturday in The Daily Beast that the law would […]
Monday covid-19 report for Utah/Wasatch County Utahns fully vaccinated: 419,623 (12.6 percent of all Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 4,407 (12.2 percent of all Utahns) Utah recovery percentage: 96.7 [96.67] percent (369,077-381,788) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.2 [97.202] percent (4,309-4,433) Utah active case percentage: 2.8 [2.78] percent (10,649-381,788) Wasatch […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Monday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints advanced select temples worldwide to Phase 2 of reopening. Phase 2 consists of temples being open for living ordinances only with restrictions. The Salt Lake City-based faith confirmed its temples at Los Angeles, California and Montreal, Quebec are advancing […]
LOGAN, UTAH (AP) — An inmate is back in custody after escaping a county jail in northern Utah by scaling two fences. Cache County sheriff’s officials say 37-year-old Cecil Vijil was outside for recreation time when he scaled the yard fence and an outer perimeter fence at the jail Sunday morning. Authorities […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities are looking for a driver who was involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in southwestern Utah. KUTV reports police in Hurricane were sent to the scene after reports of a man who was acting strangely on the main road through town Sunday morning. […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Park City High School students googled ‘gay rights in Poland’ in a current issues class recently and found the phrase blocked by filtering software that prevents access to inappropriate content on school-issued computers. Out of curiosity, they googled gay, lesbian, queer, and same sex marriage; […]
