SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The well-known Mormon Tabernacle Choir was renamed Friday to strip out the word Mormon in a move showing the faith’s new president is serious about ending shorthand names for the religion that have been used for generations by church members and previously promoted by the […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Rosa was on a track Sunday to drench northwest Mexico and parts of the U.S. Southwest, prompting tropical storm warnings for the Baja California coast and flash-flood watches for parts of four U.S. states. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rosa should still be at […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued flash flood watches for parts of four states in the Southwest for Monday and Tuesday. Areas covered by watches due to what the weather service’s Las Vegas office calls “abundant tropical moisture from Hurricane Rosa” include southern Nevada, southeastern California, […]
KANAB, Utah (AP) — Authorities in southwestern Utah say a Salt Lake City man is dead after an apparent ATV accident near Navajo Lake in Kane County. The county Sheriff’s Office says 37-year-old David Montoya apparently was driving on a road at night when he failed to make a turn […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge is denying the U.S. government’s request to move lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s downsizing of two Utah national monuments to Salt Lake City. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Monday the lawsuits will stay in a federal court in Washington, D.C. She […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Board of Regents wants to place college access advisors in every public high school in the state by 2022. The Deseret News reports the regents plan to ask the Legislature for $6 million to begin the effort they expect to cost about $7 million. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon man who led a campaign criticizing the church’s practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youth by lay leaders that sometimes included sexual questions has been kicked out of the faith following a disciplinary hearing. Sam Young read a verdict letter for the […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (dixiestateathletics.com)-Wednesday, per an announcement from Dixie State University Director of Athletics Dr. Jason Boothe, the Trail Blazers have selected their new swimming head coach. Tamber McAllister, who is a former assistant swimming coach at BYU, having served two separate stints (2005-2011, 2012-2018) in this role for the […]
