ST. GEORGE, UTAH (AP) — A crowd gathered to protest the proposed name change of a Utah university that has a moniker that draws unwelcome reminders of racist elements in the nation’s past. About 100 people rallied Monday to march to the campus of Dixie State University in St. George, The St. George […]
SALT LAKE CITY-As renovations continue at Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, among areas getting a face lift are the plaza between the Church Office Building, the Church Administration Building, the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and the Relief Society Building. The plaza currently features a system of circulating water […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Outdoor enthusiasts and landscape photographers hoping to land one of the elusive permits needed to explore the colorful, contoured landscape of a U.S. Southwestern hike called The Wave will now have a better chance under a new plan announced Monday that allows more than three […]
SALT LAKE CITY — New Utah Gov. Spencer Cox presented his first budget proposal Monday which focuses on pandemic relief and further developing rural infrastructure. Cox, a Republican, stressed the importance of equity as he unveiled the proposed $21.7 billion budget from his administration’s new rural affairs office at Southern […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Monday, covid-19 stats for Utah were updated by the state department of health. 81.7 percent of covid-19 cases (251,170-307,483) are recovered statewide. 17.9 percent of covid-19 cases (54,917-307,483) are active cases statewide. In the past 24 hours, new recovered cases (1,780) exceed new net recorded cases (1,484) and […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Carrie Dann, a Native American land rights activist, Nevada rancher and longtime leader of the Western Shoshone Nation, has died. Dann and her older sister Mary Dann, who died in 2005, fought with the federal government for decades over ownership of their ancestral lands in central […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — While no one living at a Salt Lake City hospice center for homeless people has tested positive for COVID-19, the vaccine’s arrival has provided a new sense of relief. Kimberlin Correa, executive director of the INN Between, said staff and medically fragile residents at the medical […]
ELKO, NEV. (AP) — THE search for a man accused of shooting two people in Elko has now become a search for a homicide suspect. Elko police say one of the victims of Thursday morning’s shooting at a trailer park has died. The say 32-year-old Matthew Allen Baze of Elko died […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Sunday evening, Elder Gerrit W. Gong of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Quorum of Twelve Apostles extended three invitations to young adults throughout the world during a fireside he co-hosted with his wife, Susan. Elder Gong encouraged his audience to “make deliberate attempts to slow […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state prison inmate has sued the Utah Department of Corrections to stop the movement of inmates among buildings, an alleged lack of mask and glove use by prison officials and other measures he claims spread the coronavirus. Damon Christ, who is serving time for theft, alleges the […]
