ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Navajo Nation company has ended its bid to buy a coal-fired power plant on the reservation and the mine that feeds it. The decision Friday means the Navajo Generating Station and the Kayenta Mine will close this year, ending decades of operation in northeastern Arizona. […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A suspect in a 2012 California killing is in jail following a fraudulent $3 purchase. Cody Tripp, 33, was booked Wednesday in the Weber County Jail in Ogden, Utah, and is being held without bail, the Standard-Examiner reported on Thursday. Tripp is the main suspect in the killing […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in February as 42,400 jobs were added to the state’s nonfarm economy. The Department of Workforce Services’ monthly report Friday says the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 3.0 percent in February from 3.1 percent in January. Chief Economist Carrie […]
NORTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill passed by Congress to rename a Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Utah after a mayor who was killed while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan. The White House’s website says the bill designating the VA outstation […]
COLORADO CITY, Arizona (AP) — They walked through the same double doors they used to, past the foyer and into the meeting hall — a 10,000-square-foot room with a stage on one end and a pulpit and stadium seating on the other. The polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of […]
Wasatch County School Board Members unanimously approved the purchase of Apple IPad Devices for all students Kindergarten through 8th grade at a purchase price of $2.4 million dollars during the March 21st public school board meeting. Jim Judd, administrator at Wasatch County School District said with the digital conversion they […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservation groups are suing the U.S. government over a new agreement that will allow Utah to take water from the Flaming Gorge Dam. The Center for Biological Diversity and three other organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation didn’t properly […]
ACOMA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — Native American leaders are banding together to pressure U.S. officials to ban oil and gas exploration around a sacred tribal site that features massive stone structures and other remnants of an ancient civilization but are facing the Trump administration’s pro-drilling stance. Creating a formal buffer […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Frustrated by partisan gerrymandering, voters in a growing number of states have taken the pen and computer away from lawmakers who have traditionally drawn U.S. House and state legislative districts and instead entrusted that responsibility to others. In the past decade, eight states have overhauled […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials say four children have died from the flu in Utah since October, and with a new strain of the illness, the threat may not subside for weeks. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Trahern W. Jones, a pediatric infectious disease fellow with the University of […]
