SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new state prison originally expected to be completed by the end of 2020 will be smaller, more expensive and open later. The Salt Lake Tribune reports state officials said Friday that the prison being built in western Salt Lake City is expected to cost about 20% […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — During the first few weeks Ron and Katherine Barrett spent in their new apartment on 300 East in downtown Salt Lake City, they slept with a canopy over their bed. Katherine, once used to law enforcement officers waking her multiple times each night as the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has sold drilling rights to about 40 square miles (104 square kilometers) of land near the Utah-Colorado border considered archaeologically sensitive to an energy firm. Environmentalists and tribal organizations are protesting a decision announced Wednesday to allow Ayres Energy LLC to develop […]
A press release from the Heber City Police reports that Wasatch County Dispatch received the alarm call just after 6:30 Sunday evening, September 8 at the Utah State Liquor Store, located on East Gateway Drive near the intersection of highways 189 and 40. Heber City Police booked a juvenile male […]
Wasatch Caring Coalition invites all residents of Heber Valley to attend the Family Dinner in the Park on Monday September 23, 2019. This event will be held at the Southfield Park from 5:30-7:00 pm and its purpose is to help educate families of the importance of coming together daily as […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Every year at the Utah State Fair, at a place called Promontory Hall in the creative arts section, Debbie Brown and Matt McNaughtan do some serious recycling. They take 700 pounds of pure creamery butter and turn it back into a cow. OK, not a literal […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A tip pointing to a remote Arizona community led to the end of a more than two-week-long manhunt for a couple who overpowered their guards and escaped a prison transport van that was bringing them across the country to face charges in a man’s killing, federal authorities […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that partisan state school board elections are constitutional, overturning a 2017 district court decision. The unanimous Wednesday ruling reinstates a 2016 law allowing people who want to run for the state Board of Education to file as partisan candidates […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on husband and wife fugitives accused of murder who were captured in Arizona (all times local): 12:35 p.m. Federal authorities say about 50 officers surrounded a remote Arizona house and arrested a couple accused of murder who had escaped a prison transport van and been […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon National Park officials say two dead bats found along the Colorado River inside the park tested positive for rabies. A statement released Thursday by park officials said the bats were deceased when collected last month and that the bats didn’t come […]
