BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife advocates on Thursday asked a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation. Two coalitions of advocacy groups filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Northern California seeking to restore safeguards for a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A park ranger has saved the life of an 80-year-old man who was drowning in a submerged vehicle by smashing through the truck’s window and pulling the fisherman out to safety. Utah State Parks spokesperson Devan Chavez said Dylan Urban was called to the lake […]
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man is claiming he was sexually abused as a Boy Scout and that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints threatened excommunication when he tried to report it 45 years ago. Attorneys for the man announced a lawsuit Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court […]
VERNAL, Utah-Wednesday evening, Uintah wrestling pounded Wasatch 48-21 in a non-region tilt at Uintah High School. Here are the individual results as follows: Uintah 48 Wasatch 21 106 pounds-Uintah’s Jaxon McCurdy over unknown for Wasatch 113 pounds-Wasatch’s Parker Hayes over Uintah’s Mason Holt (fall, 3:25) 120 pounds-Uintah’s Clayson Mele over […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, covid-19 statistics were updated for Utah by the state department of health. 82.1 percent of covid-19 cases statewide (260,728-317,559) are recovered cases. 17.4 percent of covid-19 cases statewide (55,371-317,559) are active cases. In the past 24 hours, new recoveries (2,904) exceed new net recorded cases (-2,742) and […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists have filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S government to block plans to build up to 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) of fuel breaks they contend would violate the Endangered Species Act in a misguided effort to slow the advance of wildfires in six […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Capitol will be largely closed to the public when lawmakers begin their work for the year next week amid planned protests in Utah following an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol last week. Lawmakers announced Tuesday that public testimony for and against bills will be conducted […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — University of Utah President Ruth Watkins has announced she is stepping down in April after accepting the position of president of Strada Impact, a national organization based in Indianapolis dedicated to strengthening the pathways between education and employment. Watkins will head its national research, philanthropy, policy and thought leadership […]
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State leaders around the U.S. are increasingly pushing for schools to reopen this winter — pressuring them, even — as teachers begin to gain access to the vaccine against the raging pandemic. Ohio’s governor offered to give vaccinations to teachers at the start of February, provided their school districts agree […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation’s Department of Justice announced Wednesday it has settled with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three western states being fouled with a bright-yellow plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals. Under the settlement […]
