(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Department of Natural Resources is urging boaters heading out as the weather gets warm to be aware of the water’s temperature. They say water temps in northern Utah are still dangerously cold. They urge all boaters to wear life preservers, and to be […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Senator Orrin Hatch and U.S. Representative Chris Stewart from Utah are behind legislation to set up a three-digit national suicide prevention hotline. Hatch says it’s needed in light of youth suicide tripling in Utah in the past decade. Supporters say the national hotline number 800-273-TALK […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake City college professor who co-founded the Utah League of Native American Voters is running for Republican Orrin Hatch’s U.S. Senate seat. James Singer launched his campaign this week, saying he wants to work on income inequality, gender inequality and racism in the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Utah’s attorney general is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Salt Lake City movie theater that serves alcohol. The state filed a motion last month in U.S. District Court asking for an end to a long-running suit involving Brewvies Cinema Pub. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Utahns apparently think they are a lot healthier than they really are. A new survey released by Envision Utah and Get Healthy Utah shows that 51-percent of state residents who think they are healthy are actually overweight or obese. While 30-percent of those who took part […]
(Washington City, UT) – A probation officer who pulled his gun on a man who reportedly cut him off in traffic takes a plea deal. Prosecutors dropped all but one third degree felony count against Kim Terry the Second in court Tuesday in exchange for his guilty plea. The Spectrum reports […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon National Park officials say the North Rim will open as scheduled May 15 but some services will be limited while a water supply pipeline is repaired after being damaged by rockslides over the winter. Officials say trucks are hauling water to […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Supporters of Nevada rancher and states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy and his sons went to a federal detention center to protest conditions in which defendants are being held while awaiting trial in federal court in Las Vegas. A rally organizer and spokesman, Doug Knowles, says the […]
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Jason Chaffetz is indicating Congress will try to cut pension payments to former presidents. A bill that was first introduced last year would cut presidential pension payments to 200-thousand-dollars a year if an ex-president makes 400-thousand or more in outside income once they leave office. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Community groups are protesting the pending deportation of a 31-year-old Mexican mother of three whose family says she was taken into custody by immigration agents while shopping with her daughter. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said Wednesday that Silvia Avelar-Flores was taken […]
