(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah District 4 Representative Kera Birkeland announced her resignation, effective January 10th, citing the need to focus on family and professional commitments. Her resignation comes days before the legislative session begins on January 21st. Birkeland, whose district includes Daggett, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich, and Summit counties, […]
DUCHESNE, Utah (AP) — Six people were injured when their plane crashed in Duchesne County, according to a press release. KUTV reports the Cessna T210M took off from Roosevelt on Friday morning en route to Moon Lake. The plane had engine trouble and crashed just south of the lake near a campground, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is proposing $1,000 checks for every American. This comes amid the shutdown of bars, restaurants and resorts in many places in the country, including some of Utah’s most popular areas. Salt Lake County restaurants will close to diners late Monday, though […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A negligent homicide charge is being reinstated for an eastern Utah jail nurse accused of failing to help a 21-year-old inmate who died in December 2016 of severe hydration. A judge tossed out the misdemeanor case against Jana Clyde in Duchesne County last February, ruling […]
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 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wildlife officials want to expand and preserve the undeveloped area surrounding Utah’s Tabby Mountain. However, Utah’s School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, which oversees the nearly 44-square-mile (114-square-kilometer) block of land, has held out for top dollar, rejecting a previous $40 million offer from the […]
PROVO, Utah-Per a report from FOX 13 News in Salt Lake City, a woman and her unborn child died Tuesday afternoon, three days after being involved in a crash on U.S. Highway 40 in Wasatch County. The Utah Highway Patrol confirmed this crash as fatal at 3:45 pm Tuesday. Saturday, […]
DUCHESNE COUNTY, Utah-Saturday, as the Dollar Ridge fire continues, authorities now have a better idea of how it has progressed. Per Alex Cabrero of KSL News Radio in Salt Lake City, the blaze is currently at 47,683 acres and per a map of the coverage area, there are definitive points […]
DUCHESNE COUNTY, Utah-Monday, as firefighters do their best to put out the Dollar Ridge fire, it remains a threat, primarily in Duchesne County. The blaze started near Strawberry Reservoir in Wasatch County around 1:00 pm MDT Sunday afternoon and at last count, had burned 6,600 acres with 0 percent containment. […]
