SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers have declined to extend a 15-year truck ban on a scenic highway north of Salt Lake City. A state Senate committee last week voted down a measure that sought to push the ban’s expiration date to July 2022. Trucks will be allowed to […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Koch brothers-funded group is sending young immigrants to lobby Congress to push for immigration reform and money for border security initiatives. The LIBRE Initiative announced last well it is sending immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally who now have temporary protective status to Washington to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a central Utah man is dead after an avalanche buried him while he was snowmobiling about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Salt Lake City. Summit County Sheriff’s officials say the slide triggered Saturday afternoon near Coalville trapped the man in deep snow. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in West Valley City say a suspect has been arrested in a homicide case. West Valley police say 50-year-old Darren Byrd is jailed on suspicion of aggravated murder, child abuse, obstruction of justice, possession of a weapon by a restricted person and domestic violence […]
NEPHI, Utah (AP) — An influx of state funding to bolster county public defenders offices has transformed what used to be a one-man operation helping people in sparsely populated Juab County who can’t afford private attorneys get better legal representation, a recent report found. The $142,000 from the state in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints President Russell M. Nelson is scheduled to deliver a devotional speech to 68,000 members of the Church Sunday near Phoenix at the stadium where the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals play. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says in […]
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — A Utah school district is praising two elementary school students who reported to a school bus driver that they’d found a handgun in a snow bank at their bus stop. A note sent to parents by the Alpine School District calls the boys heroes for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah public schools will be required to establish policies and provide training to teachers, students and parents on use at schools of privately owned cellphones and other electronic devices. The rule change approved Friday by the state Board of Education prompted a state legislator to […]
BEAVER, Utah (AP) — Searchers on Friday found the body of a snowmobiler missing in rural southern Utah following an avalanche Thursday. The Beaver County Sheriff’s Office said the avalanche occurred in the eastern Beaver Mountains near the border with Piute and Sevier counties. His man’s identity was not released. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on Utah lawmakers’ plan to scale back a voter-approved Medicaid expansion (all times local): 12:45 p.m. Utah lawmakers’ plan to scale back a voter-approved Medicaid expansion has passed a key vote despite protests from advocates who say it guts a plan the majority […]
