A Utah man awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise had brain abnormalities a defense expert deemed consistent with injuries caused by playing contact sports, according to a court filing in the case.
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The state of Wyoming is re-opening nine rest stops that were closed last year due to budget cuts, Gov. Mark Gordon said.
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A 16-year-old Utah boy was charged as an adult with stabbing a woman to death after she told him to stop using racial slurs, according to court documents.
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Utah’s governor says the state has no plans to renew a mask order for K-12 schools next fall.
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The family of a Utah man who was shot and killed by a police officer are suing the police department for his death.
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The Utah Supreme Court has affirmed the right of transgender people to change their sex designation on birth certificates.
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A Casper police officer shot and killed a man the department said was trying to flee a traffic stop early Thursday morning.
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The husband of a Colorado woman missing since Mother’s Day weekend last year has been charged with her murder, according to court documents obtained by CNN, although officials said her body has not been located. Barry Lee Morphew has been charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence and attempting to influence a public servant in
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Tribal leaders in Wyoming have announced a special general meeting this month to vote on the legalization and decriminalization of medical marijuana.
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A mask uproar at a Salt Lake City area school district meeting prompted officials to call in the police.
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First lady Jill Biden plans to speak at a Salt Lake City school as the U.S. makes uneven progress toward reopening classrooms during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Utah has ended its mandated limits on gatherings and social distancing related to the pandemic.
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A Utah woman who disappeared in November was discovered alive Sunday in a tent at a campsite near Provo, Utah County officials said.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has announced that all of the state’s counties will remain in their current phase of the state’s economic reopening plan.
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Officials say a person has died while competing in the first part of the Ironman 70.3 North American Championship St. George over the weekend.
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Conservative Republican legislators in Kansas failed Monday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a proposed ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s school sports.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say a 39-year-old woman has been found dead in southwestern Colorado after an apparent bear attack.
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First lady Jill Biden is planning to visit Salt Lake City next week as part of a tour of several Western states.
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Utah Republicans will choose new party leadership at their annual state convention.
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A jury has awarded $2 million to the widow and daughter of a motorcycle rider killed by a Wyoming intersection crash.
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GOP delegates attending the Utah Republican Party convention will consider a resolution this weekend to censure U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump.
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Six members of Idaho’s high school Class of 2021 have been selected as semifinalists for the U.S. Presidential Scholars program.
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Gov. Kate Brown is extending Oregon’s state of emergency for COVID-19 until June 28, saying a fourth surge of the pandemic is being driven by variants of the disease and causing increased cases and hospitalizations.
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Despite a healthy amount of snowfall in the North Cascades over the winter and some recent rain, the Pacific Northwest slid into the “abnormally dry” drought category last week.
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Washington State University will require proof of COVID-19 vaccinations this fall for students and employees.
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A 16-year-old boy was arrested in Utah after police accused him of fatally stabbing a woman in an apartment complex parking lot in Murray earlier in the week, authorities said.
Continue Reading Authorities in Utah have said a 24-year-old man has died after a hiking accident in Emery County.
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Native American lawmakers in Montana are asking the Biden administration to craft a plan to reintroduce wild bison to areas in and around Glacier National Park and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
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A Wyoming Department of Health employee working with computer code accidentally released COVID-19 test results for one-quarter of the state’s residents.
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Utah’s population grew by 18.4% over the past decade, making it the fastest-growing state.
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Yellowstone County officials have released the name of a man who was found shot to death in a van prior to a standoff in Billings last week.
Continue Reading Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a 20-week abortion ban and two other anti-abortion bills into law on Monday, adding to the slew of such measures advanced by Republican state lawmakers as the Biden administration seeks to unwind restrictions on the procedure. “Today we’re taking action to protect the most vulnerable amongst us, the unborn —
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Utah kidnapping and rape survivor Elizabeth Smart has launched a self-defense training program.
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Park workers were instructed to fire on the wolves only during “teachable moments,” when they’d associate the pain with their nearness to humankind.
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The bill is similar to a program in Idaho, where a private group pays its members up to $1,000 for costs incurred while scouting, hunting or trapping wolves.
Continue Reading As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Oregon, officials warned on Friday that one-third of the state’s counties are at risk of increased restrictions — again — including limiting restaurants to outdoor dining only and closing gyms.
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A new report from state officials says the wolf population in Washington state increased by an estimated 33 animals in 2020.
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A bill that sets aside $125 million to prevent and fight wildfires in Washington sailed through the state House and now goes to Gov. Jay Inslee for his signature.
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Seven cities in Utah County have so far said they plan on using ranked-choice voting for this year’s municipal elections.
Continue Reading Two men died in an explosion in a rail car tanker at a repair facility in central Wyoming, town of Shoshoni officials said Thursday.
Continue Reading Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday vetoed a Republican measure that would have made Kansas the latest state with a GOP-controlled legislature to ban transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s school sports.
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A Utah group that led the push to legalize medical marijuana in the state has launched a financial relief program for patients who can’t afford their medication.
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The U.S. Interior Department is cancelling oil and gas lease sales from public lands through June amid an ongoing review of how the program contributes to climate change.
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Utah’s governor has defended his position to support a minority scholarship program sponsored by the Utah Jazz despite criticism from some who have called the program racist.
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A grandmother has been charged after the body of a missing child from Emmett, Idaho, was discovered last week inside a trash bag in a car parked outside her own home, according to court documents made public on Monday.
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has ended a bison management plan that would have allowed the animals to be restored in more areas of the state.
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Utah state epidemiologist Angela Dunn is leaving her job to take over the Salt Lake County health department.
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Gov. Doug Ducey faces a deadline to either sign or veto legislation making Arizona’s sex education laws among the strictest in the nation when it comes to teaching about LGBTQ issues.
Continue Reading Cattle in central Oregon are again showing up dead under strange circumstances.
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Organizers of a $20 million contest to develop products from greenhouse gas that flows from power plants announced two winners Monday ahead of launching a similar but much bigger competition backed by Elon Musk.
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A proposed gun storage law that would be among the toughest in the U.S. is headed for a vote Monday in the Oregon Legislature.
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Despite concerns that the pandemic would drive many teachers away and exacerbate a longstanding teacher shortage in the state, more Utah teachers stayed in their jobs this year than they have over the last five years.
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U.S. water officials are projecting the man-made lakes that store water used throughout the American West will fall to historically low levels and trigger an official shortage declaration for the first time.
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A grizzly bear was shot and killed Friday, while officials from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks were investigating the scene of an attack that happened Thursday near West Yellowstone.
Continue Reading A federal judge on Friday sided with conservation groups who said allowing domestic sheep to graze in a mountain range along the Idaho-Montana border as part of a government agriculture program could harm grizzly bears and other wildlife.
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Donovan Mitchell exited during the third quarter of an NBA game between the Utah Jazz and Indiana Pacers on Friday afternoon after suffering a sprained right ankle.
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YouTube personality, businessman and musician Jeffree Star was hospitalized after a car crash in Wyoming.
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Dwyane Wade is an NBA owner.
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Utah’s Republican governor says he’s concerned that the U.S. decision to recommend a “pause” in use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine could make it more difficult to reach rural communities.
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Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday warned that Washington state was on the cusp of a fourth COVID-19 wave with case numbers and hospitalizations rising.
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Students and school district officials in Utah are outraged after a high school student ripped down a pride flag to the cheers of other students during diversity week.
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A U.S. judge on Wednesday struck down the government’s approval of the first phase of a long-stalled copper and silver mine that would be constructed beneath a northwestern Montana wilderness.
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Students at Utah State University illuminated the base of the campus’ iconic Old Main building in Logan with rainbow lights on Tuesday in support of LGBTQ students at Brigham Young University in Provo.
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A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a woman in front of her child on the Crow Indian Reservation in southern Montana has died in custody.
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A Wyoming man was sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in February to killing three family members in March 2020, a judge said.
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte issued Tuesday an executive order banning the development or use of vaccine passports in Montana.
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Utah is recommending that providers pause administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, following the lead of federal officials who are investigating reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.
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Investigators in southeastern Wyoming have reopened the case of a dead newborn found in a culvert more than 30 years ago.
Continue Reading A clothing store in Salt Lake City was forced to close for a day after employees said a man refused to wear a mask then threatened to shoot everyone in the store.
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Idaho State Police investigated a two-vehicle injury crash on northbound US91 at milepost 32, just south of Downey Friday around 1:17 p.m.
Continue Reading A member of Wyoming’s 2021 football recruiting class is dead after a shooting in Texas.
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New data shows nearly 16% of Utah women have withdrawn in some way from the workplace during the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue Reading One of two sheriff’s deputies wounded in a shootout outside the Salt Lake City area’s jail lost his eye but the other has been released from the hospital.
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Drivers are asked to use an alternate route, as the road between Roller Coaster Road and Pegram Road is closed.
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There is no estimate when it will reopen.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A statewide mask mandate in Utah is scheduled to expire Saturday, but some businesses and government facilities have said face coverings will be still required. The Salt Lake City International Airport, the Utah Transit Authority and the Hogle Zoo are among those that said they would keep requiring masks and other
Continue Reading It’s been over a year since a choir practice in Washington state sickened 53 people and killed two, becoming one of the first known COVID-19 superspreader events in the United States.
Continue Reading After the worst wildfire season ever in 2020, California is bracing for more destruction this year due to worsening drought conditions and above-normal temperatures. “We had world record-breaking high temperatures in our own backyard in California… 130 degrees in our state,” Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday as he launched a $536 million funding package to
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The outdoor rodeo Cheyenne Frontier Days will continue as planned this year after being forced to cancel last year during the coronavirus pandemic.
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Utah on Thursday before submitting a review on national monuments in the state.
Continue Reading A third man from Utah was charged Wednesday in connection with the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January.
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Signs promising money for unused diabetes test strips are showing up around Eastern Idaho.
Continue Reading Salt Lake City will continue its mask mandate after it is lifted statewide April 10, the mayor said Wednesday, though the rest of the county decided not to require masks and the city’s rule may violate a new state law.
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A judge has sentenced a Salt Lake City man to three suspended jail terms and three years of probation after he pleaded guilty to felony firearm charges in a drive-by shooting in December.
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Police in a Wyoming city made almost 400 traffic stops over 14 hours in a federally funded effort to crack down on marijuana.
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A new law blocks Utah’s government from requiring people to get COVID-19 vaccines, but companies can use so-called vaccine passports to determine who has been inoculated.
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte tested positive for COVID-19 Monday after experiencing mild symptoms on Sunday, according to his office. The Republican governor will isolate for 10 days in accordance with his doctor’s instructions and public health guidance and plans to work from home, his office said in a statement Monday. Montana’s first lady Susan Gianforte
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The U.S. government and a railroad have reached a settlement agreement under which the company will pay $140,000 for spilling fuel and oil in a Wyoming river after a crash.
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All Oregon residents age 16 and up will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine on April 19.
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A federal judge has scheduled a trial over whether a Utah county is liable for civil damages after an inmate bled to death in a jail cell in 2016.
Continue Reading For the right price, 14 Colorado drivers can show their love for the state’s legal green. Colorado is auctioning rights for 14 different official state license plates with phrases like “BONG,” “GANJA,” “HEMP” and “ISIT420.” The revenue from these extremely obvious nods to all things cannabis will go to the Colorado Disability Funding Committee, Democratic
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Some rock climbing routes on Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming have been closed to protect nesting falcons.
Continue Reading A man ended a police pursuit in southwestern Wyoming by killing himself.
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Utah’s governor has signed a law requiring biological fathers to pay half of a woman’s out-of-pocket pregnancy costs.
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Authorities in northern Utah say a 41-year-old woman was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot by an ex-boyfriend who later shot himself following an hours-long standoff with police.
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Michael Lee Hardin was arrested Friday on charges of entering and remaining in the Capitol, a restricted building, and participating in disorderly conduct.
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A ratchet from an unknown vehicle flew through the windshield hitting Jimenez Negrete, who then drove off the right shoulder into the median, where the vehicle came to rest.
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Utah is launching a return to work program to help people reentering the workforce as new coronavirus case numbers continue to drop.
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Two hikers in Utah were rescued by county search teams and a state helicopter after they became stranded on an icy cliff near Ogden, authorities said.
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A federal judge has blocked a project in Nevada that would expand livestock grazing across 400 square miles of some of the highest priority sage-grouse habitat in the West.
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