Utah governor issues statewide mask mandate amid virus surge
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has declared a state of emergency and ordered a statewide mask mandate in an attempt to stem the state’s surge in coronavirus…
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Wyoming health officials report 646 new coronavirus cases
Wyoming health officials are reporting 646 new coronavirus cases Sunday, the second-highest single-day total of the pandemic in the…
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Utah voters pass big change to how education is funded
Utah voters have approved a major structural change to how schools are…
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Wyoming denies renewable energy company’s wind farm lease
Wyoming regulators have voted to deny a renewable energy company a lease to build a wind farm on state…
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Utah teachers call for remote learning as virus cases surge
Utah’s largest teachers union called for the governor to move all public secondary schools in high coronavirus transmission areas to remote learning…
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East Idaho hospitals are worried about rising COVID-19 numbers
Hospitals in Eastern Idaho are seeing an increase in patients from the regional area, plus Montana and Wyoming as…
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Utah governor ‘frustrated’ with record-breaking virus cases
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said he is feeling “frustrated” with the state’s rising coronavirus numbers as new cases and hospitalizations continued a…
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9 injured as truck crashes into COVID-19 testing site
A pickup truck crashed into a coronavirus testing site in Salt Lake City Thursday, injuring nine people and demolishing a medical…
Continue Reading Voters back hunting amendment, re-elect GOP lawman
Utah voters have approved making hunting and fishing a constitutional right and given the state’s Republican attorney general another…
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Utah reports its highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations
Utah has reported its highest number of hospitalizations yet with 348 COVID-19 patients, surpassing the record of 342 patients set on…
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Utah epidemiologist’s home address leaked online for protest
Utah Epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn said protestors were at her home Thursday morning after her personal information was leaked…
Continue Reading Utah hospitals ‘can’t keep up’ amid record-breaking surge
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and health officials said Thursday the state may soon need to implement crisis care protocols as hospitals reach a breaking…
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Utah man arrested for allegedly burning children with water
A Utah man was arrested after police accused him of burning two toddlers with hot water, authorities…
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Governor Little appoints Ron Davies to Fish and Game Commission
Governor Brad Little has appointed Ron Davies of Clayton as the Idaho Fish and Game Commission Salmon Region representative.…
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GOP candidate’s campaign donations went illegally over limit
Republican Burgess Owens is refunding and reallocating illegal campaign donations that went above contribution…
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Both newspapers in Utah’s capital to cease daily publication
The capital of Utah will go from two daily printed newspapers to none after both of Salt Lake City’s major publications announced moves to weekly…
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Salt Lake Tribune to stop printing daily after 149 years
he Salt Lake Tribune announced Monday it will stop printing a daily newspaper at the end of the year after nearly 150 years and move to a weekly…
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Police: Man fatally shot in Boise home; woman arrested
An Idaho woman was arrested after police believe she fatally shot a man inside a Boise home, authorities…
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Colorado wildfires drag on later than normal, break records
Orange skies, winds gusting up to 70 mph, smoke tornadoes and hazardous air. While it could be an apocalyptic scene out of a movie, it’s become the…
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Slain Utah college student’s family gets $13.5M settlement
The parents of a University of Utah track athlete who was killed by her ex-boyfriend on campus two years ago reached a $13.5 million settlement…
Continue Reading Wyoming health officials seek mask mandate in Laramie County
Some county health officials in Wyoming have advanced an effort for a mandatory mask order as the number of active coronavirus cases keeps rising…
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Utah rivals in governor’s race unite in call for decency
Rival candidates vying to become Utah’s next governor joined together in new ads Tuesday urging people to accept the results of the November…
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Wyoming Women’s Antelope Hunt supports state’s food banks
Donations from a recent women’s hunting event will directly benefit food pantries in the state, officials…
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No class Monday in West Ada district due to teacher shortage
A school district in Idaho has canceled school Monday due to a teacher shortage after hundreds called out in sick in protest of in-person instruction…
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Wyoming university reports 7 sorority students with COVID-19
The University of Wyoming announced Thursday seven students in a sorority house have tested positive for the…
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Mitt Romney calls for US commission to deal with wildfires
U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah announced legislation Thursday to establish a national commission focused on diminishing future wildfire…
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Close encounter with a mountain lion
A Utah man had a scary encounter while taking a hike in Slate Canyon outside of Provo…
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2020 elk season brings new hunters to the hills
Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Upper Snake Division reports an uptick in sales of hunting licenses and tags for the 2020 elk hunting season that…
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Idaho, Utah surpasses 500 coronavirus deaths as surge persists
Idaho and Utah surpassed the grim milestone of 500 deaths from the coronavirus as the number of new cases and hospitalizations continued to break…
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Pandemic likely to dominate debate between Pence, Harris
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger, California Sen. Kamala Harris, are facing off in a debate that will highlight conflicting…
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Fight on flight to Provo over man’s refusal to wear mask
Things were far from the “friendly skies” on a flight to Provo over the weekend when a fight broke out after a passenger refused to wear a…
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Body found in burned trailer home in northern Idaho
An investigation is underway after a body was found in a burned trailer home in northern…
Continue Reading Utah records 3rd day in a row of over 1,000 new virus cases
An increase in Utah COVID-19 cases continued Saturday with another 1,068 reported infections – making it the eighth day case numbers have jumped…
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2 leaders of Aryan Knights prison gang sentenced to more than 17 years for RICO conspiracy
Two members of an Idaho prison gang called the Aryan Knights were sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of participating in…
Continue Reading University of Wyoming wrestling reports 6 COVID-19 cases
The University of Wyoming has announced that its wrestling program halted activities after the team confirmed six cases of…
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Audit: COVID tests costlier under Utah contract with startup
A multimillion-dollar coronavirus-testing contract the state of Utah signed with a startup company ended up costing significantly more per test…
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Court upholds decision to prevent Wyoming coal merger
A federal court said it would uphold a Federal Trade Commission decision to block a proposed merger between two leading Wyoming coal…
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Utah State Prison inmate dies after altercation
The Utah Department of Corrections has reported that an inmate died after an altercation with another inmate at the Utah State Prison in…
Continue Reading Breezy weather continues to fan Wyoming wildfire
Breezy weather continued Tuesday to fan a wildfire threatening a handful of cabin communities in southeastern…
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Idaho county OKs public land ordinances amid legal warning
Commissioners in a rural Idaho county have approved three ordinances aimed at giving them authority over federal public lands despite warnings from…
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5 injured in Idaho sugar beet factory explosion
Five people sustained minor injuries in an explosion at an Idaho sugar beet processing…
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Giant gourds break Utah state record at weigh-off in Lehi
The Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers has recorded eight pumpkins in Utah this year weighing over 1,000 pounds, setting a state…
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Die-off of pinyon pines spurs concern at Idaho state park
The steward of the City of Rocks National Reserve in southern Idaho says more and more of the few pinyon pines that live in the reserve are dying,…
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Boise woman gets up to 30 years for crash that killed child
A Boise woman has been sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for driving under the influence in a crash that killed a 3-year-old girl and left three…
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Idaho man sues over state’s anti-sodomy law
An Idaho man represented by a coalition of civil rights attorneys is suing the state’s attorney general over Idaho’s so-called “infamous crime…
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Utah State Prison locked down after possible virus exposure
The Utah State Prison in Draper and the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison have been placed under a 24-hour lockdown after authorities…
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3 arrested at Idaho church singing event to flout mask order
Three people have been arrested after an Idaho church held a maskless psalm singing event in a city hall parking lot in violation of the town’s mask…
Continue Reading Wyoming utility supports recycling wind turbine blades
The largest utility in Wyoming is considering more sustainable solutions for old wind turbine blades, instead of tossing them into a…
Continue Reading K-12 enrollment in Utah drops by 2K students amid pandemic
Enrollment at public schools in Utah has declined as the coronavirus pandemic pushes some parents to homeschool their children and make other…
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Utah county implements face mask mandate after rise in cases
A county in Utah has implemented a face mask mandate as COVID-19 cases surge in the…
Continue Reading Utah governor increases pandemic restrictions in 2 cities
Gov. Gary Herbert will increase pandemic restrictions in two Utah cities. But he stopped short of implementing any mask mandates as COVID-19 cases…
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Wyoming cuts to impede access to corrections information
News reporters on urgent deadlines will need to file a time-consuming public records request in order for the Wyoming Department of Corrections to…
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University of Utah to halt in-person classes ahead of debate
The University of Utah will stop in-person classes for two weeks as the state deals with a coronavirus spike shortly before a planned U.S.…
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Body of missing Idaho hiker found 1,000 feet below Utah peak
Utah authorities have discovered the body of a missing hiker on Sunday after he left Idaho a week earlier for a backpacking trip in the…
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Documents detail push to manage Yellowstone bison as cattle
Yellowstone National Park officials said in a 2018 briefing paper that they were ordered by then-Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to manage the…
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Wyoming plans for high school basketball to start on time
The Wyoming High School Activities Association says it plans for high school basketball and wrestling to start on…
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University of Wyoming faces $42.3M budget cut over 2 years
The University of Wyoming is developing plans to address a $42.3 million budget cut over the next two years because state revenues are declining due…
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Safe gun storage is focus of new anti-suicide movement
The Gem State has one of the highest rates of suicide by gun in the…
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BBB says scammers are out taking advantage of the pandemic
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) – The Better Business Bureau says scammers are out taking advantage of recent natural disasters and the pandemic. A…
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Wyoming Republican Party censures member for PAC support
The Wyoming Republican Party has voted to censure a member of the Natrona County delegation for her role in founding a nonpartisan political action…
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Badger Fire road, trail and area closure
The Badger Fire, located on the Minidoka Ranger District – 20 miles southwest of Oakley, started on September 12 near Badger Gulch, off Forest…
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Salt Lake City opens first part of $4B renovated airport
Salt Lake City’s renovated airport welcomed its first passengers Tuesday at a new concourse that is part of the first phase of a $4.1 billion…
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Green River wind storm damage likely in millions
Hurricane-force winds that struck a Wyoming city likely caused millions of dollars in damage and could take up to six months to clean…
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COVID-19 deaths surpass 2,000 in Washington state
More than 2,000 people in the state have now died due to the coronavirus, according to The Washington state Department of…
Continue Reading University of Wyoming plans to restart in-person classes
The University of Wyoming plans to restart in-person classes Tuesday after switching to online learning when a cluster of coronavirus cases…
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Salt Lake City schools to delay start after major wind storm
Salt Lake City schools will delay their first day until Monday due to continued power outages after a windstorm tore through Utah this week, district…
Continue Reading Number of self-reported COVID-19 cases at BYU almost doubles
The number of self-reported coronavirus cases on Brigham Young University’s campus has almost doubled to 146, officials…
Continue Reading University of Wyoming in-person class pause extended
In-person classes at the University of Wyoming will begin for the fall semester no sooner than Monday amid ongoing efforts to test for the…
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Interim Director of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation appointed
The Idaho Parks and Recreation Board announced Buxton as the interim director on August 12 and she officially took over on September…
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Granite Peak falls lead to death, injuries, daring rescue
A helicopter pilot carried out several daring rescues involving people injured in climbing accidents over the weekend just hours before he attended…
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Report: Great Salt Lake shrinking more than a foot annually
Utah’s Great Salt Lake is shrinking every year, but experts are implementing measures to slow the water loss, a new report…
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Investigation under way in police shooting of Utah boy, 13
Authorities in Utah are investigating the shooting of a 13-year-old autistic boy by police in the Salt Lake City…
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Athol, Idaho, man crashes plane after attempted landing
An Athol, Idado man was transported to Kootenai Health with non-life threatening injuries following a plane crash on Sunday…
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Wyoming students return to school scenes altered by virus
Childhood chatter rang out over the blacktop, masked students queued up for school buses, and street signs blinked a warning to slow down outside of…
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Police find body of missing 2-year-old in drained Idaho pond
Authorities in Idaho have discovered the body of a missing 2-year-old boy after crews spent all day Friday draining a pond near where the child went…
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Utah aims to be prepared for COVID-19 vaccine distribution
Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah will aim to be prepared to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it becomes available, a week after the federal…
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Jordan makes a campaign stop in Idaho Falls
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) – US Senate candidate (D) Paulette Jordan is making her trip across Idaho to campaign for a Senate seat against (R)…
Continue Reading Dad, stepmom charged in connection with death of 9-year-old
Prosecutors have charged an Idaho stepmom with murder and her husband with felony injury to a child after police say emergency responders found a…
Continue Reading Search for missing 2-year-old boy continues in Eagle
Authorities are still searching for a 2-year-old boy who went missing near Boise Wednesday, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office said…
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Woman sues, says she was hospitalized after prison dentistry
A woman who says she suffered a life-threatening infection after Idaho’s prison staffers denied her antibiotics following dental surgery is suing…
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Casper decides against ban on feeding feral cats, dogs
Officials in a Wyoming city have decided not to prohibit feeding feral cats and…
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Protesters march in Salt Lake City demanding justice
About 100 people marched in Salt Lake City and gathered in protest at the Utah Capitol following the police killing of Jacob Blake in Kenosha,…
Continue Reading Idaho police say suspect killed after firing at police
Three Boise police officers fatally shot a man who was firing his gun from inside a trailer, authorities…
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Wastewater from Four USU residence halls show elevated SARS-COV-2
Utah State University’s wastewater monitoring for COVID-19 has detected elevated levels of COVID-19 in four residence halls on the Logan…
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Utah man dead after suspected bison attack, officials say
A man who authorities say was possibly attacked by a bison in Utah has…
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Logging project proposed near Yellowstone National Park
Wildlife officials in Montana have proposed a logging and vegetation treatment project west of Yellowstone National Park, citing the possibility of…
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Provo council overrides mayor, implements mask mandate
The Provo Municipal Council has overridden a mayoral veto and implemented a mask mandate ahead of a new school year starting at Brigham Young…
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Mountain lion kills pastured horse in southern Idaho
Wildlife officials in Idaho have said a mountain lion attacked and killed a horse this weekend while it was…
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Police: Boise man dies after being hit while crossing street
Boise police say a 38-year-old man was hit and killed while crossing a city street Sunday…
Continue Reading University of Wyoming enrollment rises substantially in fall
The University of Wyoming experienced a substantial rise in enrollment after the governor announced a grant-funding program for students, the school…
Continue Reading University of Wyoming reports 61 cases of the coronavirus
The University of Wyoming has reported 61 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, officials…
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Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square Christmas concert canceled due to pandemic
The annual Christmas concert by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ choir has been canceled because of lingering concerns about the…
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Rural Idaho school district sees influx of city kids
A rural Idaho school district is pushing back its start date because of an influx of children from neighboring cities that have enrolled in its…
Continue Reading Utah’s largest county extends mask mandate until year’s end
A mask mandate in Utah’s largest county, which includes Salt Lake City, has been extended until the end of the…
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Minidoka National Historic Site fall hours
Starting Sept. 4, 2020, the Minidoka National Historic Site’s Visitor Center will be open for fall hours: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 a.m.…
Continue Reading Idaho school district to reopen despite health guidance
A school district in southwestern Idaho has announced plans to reopen its schools during the coronavirus pandemic despite recommendations against…
Continue Reading Report: Utah minorities hit harder by workplace outbreaks
Hispanic and non-white people in Utah were disproportionately hit by workplace COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a Centers for Disease Control and…
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Wildland firefighter in Idaho tests positive for coronavirus
A wildland firefighter who was working with about 270 other people on a small fire in Idaho has tested positive for coronavirus, officials said…
Continue Reading Giant Idaho forest project on hold again after court ruling
A giant Idaho forest project favored by some environmental groups but decried by others is on hold again following a federal court…
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Body of missing 7-year-old boy found in Wyoming reservoir
The body of a missing 7-year-old boy was found Tuesday after he had been missing since last Thursday, the Casper Star-Tribune…
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