SALT LAKE CITY-Sunday, covid statistics for Utah were updated by the state department of health. 81.5 percent of covid-19 cases statewide (249,390-305,999) are recovered. 18.04 percent of covid-19 cases statewide (55,217-305,999) are active cases. In the past 24 hours, new recovered cases (2,000) exceeded new net active cases (274). They […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years and undercut President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to curb new drilling because of climate change, according to public records and industry analysts. An […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah remains among the most rapidly growing states even as its pace of change slows down over time. The Beehive State ranks fourth for population growth in the one-year period that ended in July, according to estimates out from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Deseret […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Utah men who met in prison while serving time for unrelated fraud schemes have been charged in federal court over a fraudulent trading program one of them claimed to have received in a “spiritual revelation,” the Securities and Exchange Commission said. A complaint filed […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Saturday, covid-19 statistics were updated for Utah by the state department of health. 81.45 percent of covid-19 cases statewide (247,390-303,723) cases are recovered. 18.1 percent of covid-19 cases statewide (54,943-303,723) are active cases. In the past 24 hours, new recoveries (2,400) exceeded new active cases (204). They were […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Twenty years ago, June suckers were well on their way to oblivion due to Utahns’ use of Utah Lake as a place to dump pollution and stock with sport fish and other nonnatives. Few noticed the disappearance of the June sucker, regarded as a trash fish, […]
ROSE BUD, Ark.-Per news released Friday, late Thursday, a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lost his life in a car accident. Church spokesman Sam Penrod confirmed the incident occurred at Rose Bud, Ark., in the Church’s Arkansas Little Rock Mission. Penrod stated that four missionaries […]
PROVO, UTAH (AP) — A Utah developer who wanted to build a drug treatment facility near a natural waterfall has filed a suit against Utah County after the county blocked private development at the tourist attraction. The lawsuit filed by developer Richard Losee on Wednesday argued that the conservation easement passed unanimously […]
PARK CITY, UTAH (AP) — A Utah man who was snowboarding near Park City was caught in an avalanche in the backcountry Friday morning and died, according to police. The 31-year-old man from Clinton, Utah was with his girlfriend when he attempted to snowboard down steep backcountry terrain and triggered an avalanche, according […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New Gov. Spencer Cox unveiled a plan Friday to ramp up Utah’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution as the state sees a post-holiday surge in new cases. The Republican governor said he will issue an executive order requiring facilities to allocate their doses the week they are […]
