SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Snow coated the roads during the morning commute near Salt Lake City on Friday. The storm dropped up to five inches (13 centimeters) within about four hours, said National Weather Service meteorologist Charlotte Dewey. In the mountains, some places saw more than a foot of snow. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. authorities investigating a tour bus crash that killed four Chinese tourists in Utah said Thursday they haven’t uncovered any mechanical problems that could explain why the driver lost control of the vehicle. The 60-year-old driver was on his first run for a new company […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jeffrey Manzanares started vaping nicotine two years ago because he thought it would be a safe way to quit smoking. Instead, it almost killed him. The 33-year-old construction worker spent 17 days in a Utah hospital last month when he came down with a lung […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say Utah troopers have confiscated 39,908 THC vaping cartridges on freeways so far in 2019. The Deseret News reports Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Nick Street said Tuesday that his agency has seen a dramatic increase in drug dealers throughout the state carrying vaping cartridges filled with […]
PANGUITCH, Utah (AP) — A tour bus crashed on a highway running through the red-rock landscape of southern Utah, killing four people from China and injuring dozens more. On Friday, the bus from of southern California rolled onto a guard rail, crushing its roof and ramming the rail’s vertical posts […]
THISTLE, Utah (AP) — A 10-mile stretch of a rural highway in central Utah remained closed Saturday after flash flooding from storm runoff sent mud and debris over the roadway. The Utah Department of Transportation said the flooding Friday night closed U.S. 89 south of the junction with U.S. 6 […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — State officials say motorcycle deaths in Utah rose by 24% last year — from 38 to 47 — for the highest increase in state history. The Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Highway Patrol organized an event Tuesday in West Valley City featuring […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Recent figures suggest that the Utah Highway Patrol is seeing early success under a new state law that dropped the blood alcohol limit from .08% to .05%, the lowest threshold in the nation. The Deseret News reported Tuesday that Utah troopers say there were 134 alcohol-related crashes […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah troopers say they have arrested their agency’s first person under the state’s new lowered DUI threshold. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Nick Street says the Tuesday-night arrest would have happened before the law went into effect, but the measure makes it more likely that the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New Year’s Eve revelers in Utah could find themselves with more than a hangover as 2019 dawns. If they drink and drive, they could end up on the wrong side of the nation’s newest and lowest DUI threshold. The 0.05 percent limit goes into effect […]
