Native people have had ties to land in North America since time immemorial, and now that connection is expanding to the cosmos. The Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a month, collecting data and making discoveries with each passing day. A number of the findings, through a collaboration with […]
Sunday covid-19 reports for Utah and Wasatch County Utahns fully vaccinated: 418,943 (12.6 percent of Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 4,406 (12.2 percent of Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 96.6 [96.64] percent (368,816-381,629) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.1 [97.09] percent (4,303-4,432) Utah active case percentage: 2.8 [2.82] percent […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah County sheriff’s SWAT team member driving to a standoff hit and killed a BYU student, authorities said. Utah County sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon confirmed Thursday that a SWAT employee at the sheriff’s office T-boned and killed Joseph Spencer, 22, as the college student was pulling […]
Saturday report for covid-19 in Utah and Wasatch County Utahns fully vaccinated: 413,058 (12.4 percent of all Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 4,405 (12.2 percent of all Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 96.6 [96.61] percent (368,352-381,254) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.02 percent (4,299-4,431) Utah active case percentage: 2.8 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Corbin McMillen liked hiking in Zion National Park and its most infamous trail – the summit to Angels Landing. “I think he liked Angels Landing,” said Margie Barron, McMillen’s mother, “because it was… it gave him some adrenaline.” Thirteen hikers have fallen and died from […]
PHOENIX (AP) – A former Phoenix politician already in prison on a six-year sentence for operating an illegal adoption scheme involving women from the Marshall Islands was ordered to serve another five years behind bars for defrauding Arizona’s Medicaid system in a scam to get taxpayer-funded health coverage for the birth […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A bill that would mandate pornography filters on every device sold in the state would send an “important message” about keeping explicit online content away from kids, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said. Cox didn’t say whether he would sign the bill at a Thursday news […]
PROVO, Utah-Friday, Brigham Young University confirmed it will conduct virtual commencement ceremonies April 22. The keynote speaker will be Elder Gerrit W. Gong of The Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This event commences at 10:00 am and will be conducted by BYU […]
Friday’s Utah/Wasatch County covid-19 report Utahns fully vaccinated: 402,988 (12.1 percent of all Utahns) Wasatch County residents fully vaccinated: 4,384 (12.1 percent of all Wasatch County residents) Utah recovery percentage: 96.6 [96.55] percent (367,666-380,787) Wasatch County recovery percentage: 97.1 [97.017] percent (4,294-4,426) Utah active case percentage: 2.9[2.91] percent (11,063-380,787) Wasatch […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Students can safely sit just 3 feet apart in the classroom as long as they wear masks but should be kept the usual 6 feet away from one another at sporting events, assemblies, lunch or chorus practice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday […]
