SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An ape at the Salt Lake City zoo is predicting the Patriots to win this weekend’s Super Bowl. Hogle Zoo spokeswoman Erica Hansen said Thursday that a 12-year-old orangutan named Acara grabbed the face mask of the Patriots’ papier-mache helmet first instead of the Eagles’ […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Transportation is installing freeway signs that will make it easier for drivers to identify where they are along the road when calling for aid thus helping to reduce response times for emergency crews. KSL-TV reports work crews will install 692 blue […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Police in the Utah community that hosts the Sundance Film Festival says two complaints to a hotline set up to report sexual misconduct during the event have prompted investigations. Park City police Capt. Phil Kirk tells the Salt Lake Tribune one complaint was about a […]
It’s not the first patent obtained by a resident of Sanpete County, but it is the first time a local company has been instrumental in obtaining that patent. Milt Olsen, owner of Maintenance Technology Systems of Manti, is a senior vibration analyst, and his company collects vibration data for surface […]
Due to the action of the Sanpete County Commission before the end of 2017, the county will save a significant amount of money over the next 17 years. By refinancing and changing the financial structure of bonds used to construct the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Complex, the county is looking at […]
The Division of Wildlife Resources will not be holding one of Utah’s most popular fishing events this year. The Fish Lake Perch Tournament, which was scheduled to begin on Feb 24, has been canceled because of unsafe ice conditions. Officials are predicting that the ice thickness won’t be improving in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Utah measures that would allow terminally ill people to use certain forms of marijuana and farmers to grow it for research purposes passed their first legislative hurdle Wednesday despite criticism from medical marijuana advocates that the piecemeal approach doesn’t go far enough. The proposals […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state Senate committee has approved a bill that would penalize doctors in Utah who do not show an informational video to women seeking an abortion. The Deseret News reports the committee unanimously passed the bill Wednesday. Sen. Todd Weiler says doctors who are “willfully […]
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Army is warning about the dangers of vaping synthetic cannabinoid oil after about 60 soldiers and Marines in North Carolina and 33 troops in Utah experienced serious medical problems in January. In a Monday public health alert, the U.S. Army Public Health Center said […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mother and her two daughters have taken sanctuary in a converted classroom at a Utah church rather than move to Honduras on a federal deportation order. Unidad Inmigrante activist Amy Dominguez told The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday that Vicky Chavez fears for her […]
