SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prospective home-buyers in Utah are struggling amid a shortage of affordable housing in a situation that mirrors a nationwide trend. Data compiled by The Associated Press from real estate websites shows that Salt Lake City’s housing inventory plummeted nearly 70 percent from 2012 to 2017. […]
HILDALE, Utah (AP) — A musician is planning a festival in Hildale, Utah, one of two towns on the Utah-Arizona line that’s home to the religious group known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Spectrum reports (http://bit.ly/2o4ncOr ) that the Colorado City Music Festival is scheduled […]
KAYSVILLE, Utah (AP) — Two Davis County schools were put on lockout for several hours after an official found the body of a man on school grounds who they say killed himself. The Standard-Examiner reports that a man in his 20s was found dead on the property of a junior […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and new national Democratic Party Chairman Tom Perez will stop in Utah as early as next week as part of a national push to unify Democrats in Republican strongholds and politically competitive states. Utah Democratic Party Chair Peter Corroon said Tuesday […]
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah National Guard recruiter accused of exchanging lewd text messages with a teenager has been indicted. The indictment charges 26-year-old South Jordan resident Kyle Ivory with sexual exploitation of a minor and enticing a minor. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the 17-year-old girl and […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A coal mine operator says the price of its coal could be lowered through 2025 if a new buyer takes over the power plant it sells to. The Arizona Republic reports Peabody Energy officials are hopeful that new ownership would make the Navajo Generation Station profitable again. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is running for president in his native country of Kenya. The Deseret News reports that Amram Musungu says he’s always wanted to run for the post to help Kenyans work to get control of a country that he believes is ripe for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has lifted a ban on motorized vehicles in a southeastern Utah canyon that was the setting of a 2014 ATV protest ride that was a flashpoint in the Western struggle over government land management. Zinke said in a news release […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A social work expert says a Somali refugee shot by police should be allowed to face drug and robbery charges in juvenile court to give the 18-year-old a chance to rehabilitate. Robert Butters of the University of Utah said Monday that research shows juveniles thrown […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune has won a Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for a series of stories on Mormon-owned Brigham Young University’s practice of opening honor code investigations into students who reported they were victims of sexual assault. The Utah newspaper won Monday for the […]
