Utah forecast: Fire danger rises, along with temperatures
Potentially record-setting heat will continue through the midweek in Utah, and a Fire Weather Watch has been ordered for the Wasatch Mountains and western deserts.Hot, dry conditions, scattered dry...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump seems to mistake two Finnish reporters for ‘the same one’...
Trump seems to mistake two Finnish reporters for ‘the same one’ at White House news conference. The bill for Operation Rio Grande comes in at $67 million. Trump is set to renew surplus military...
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Joel Osteen: Houston megachurch to shelter people if needed
Houston • Joel Osteen opened his Houston megachurch to those seeking shelter after social media critics slammed the televangelist for not offering to house people in need while Harvey swamps the...
View ArticleTrump: 'All options are on table' after North Korea's missile launch
Washington • President Donald Trump said Tuesday that “all options are on the table” in terms of a U.S. response to North Korea’s launch of a missile over Japan.In a terse, written statement Tuesday,...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Canadian football team adds intrigue to prep doubleheader at USU
Studying the Utah high school football schedules, I always look for interstate games. One of the most interesting matchups of 2017 will come Friday, when Desert Hills of St. George, with highly...
View ArticleRacist posters removed as classes start at Weber State
Ogden, Utah • A school official in Utah says about a dozen white nationalist posters were removed a day before classes started at Weber State University because their placement violated school...
View ArticleErin Alberty: To survive the ‘divorce boat’ in Class III whitewater, yell more
It took about 5 minutes in the Salmon River for me to start worrying that my husband and I had drastically overestimated our capacity for teamwork.Water — gallons of icy Idaho water — was dumping over...
View ArticleSawtooth Mountains offer wet and wild adventure a short drive from the...
Northwest of Great Salt Lake, across the Snake River Plain and into the mountains of central Idaho, the famously spiked peaks of Sawtooth Range cut into the horizon.But beneath the jagged panorama, a...
View ArticleMerkel: Europe still 'hasn't done homework' on refugees
Berlin • Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she did the right thing by allowing large numbers of migrants into Germany two years ago, but said Europe hasn’t done enough to resolve the refugee...
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Rainbow trout’s days are numbered on select national forest streams
The Dixie National Forest is poised to wipe out a sport fishery on two streams to restore native trout to parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.In coordination with Utah wildlife officials, the forest is...
View ArticlePac-12 football: Arizona tries to climb out of South cellar, starting with...
Arizona’s football season preview looks a lot like Arizona State’s forecast.The Pac-12′s Arizona schools have followed a similar trajectory this decade, from Arizona’s succeeding ASU as the South...
View ArticleMedicare to foot the bill for treadmill therapy for leg pain
Chicago • Three times a week, Rita Driscoll steps onto a treadmill at a Minnesota hospital under the eye of a rehab therapist. She walks until it hurts — pushing her limits, walking faster and adding...
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Utah’s Tank Hollow Fire nears 4,200 acres
Entering its third week, the lightning-caused Tank Hollow Fire had blackened nearly 4,200 acres of timber, grass and brush in Spanish Fork Canyon by Tuesday.Fire Information Officer Jason Curry said...
View ArticleNFL making $40 million available for medical research
New York • A year after the NFL pledged $100 million in support of independent medical research and engineering advancements, a huge chunk of that soon will be awarded to such research, primarily...
View ArticleIn its first full deployment, elite Utah medical team heads to Houston
The call came a few days ago to prepare as Hurricane Harvey gathered strength before deluging Houston with rain and destruction.Utah’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team answered — assembling at Salt...
View ArticleGorge on late-summer fruit with this tangy orange fruit dip
Late summer fruit is perhaps my favorite. Berries are juicy and sweet, in their last flourish before slipping away into elite and expensive status. Peaches and plums are soft and caramel-like in...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Three Utah State games will stream on Facebook; ESPN still...
The Utah State football team will be on Facebook quite a bit this fall — a quarter of its regular season. We’re not talking about the players going online. Three USU games — Sept. 7 vs. Idaho State,...
View ArticleOusted Navajo Head Start leader says she was illegally dismissed, faced...
Farmington, N.M. • The ousted superintendent for Navajo Head Start says she was illegally dismissed from the program last month and often faced harassment.The Daily Times of Farmington, New Mexico,...
View ArticleMonson: Nature can be one vicious mother, and the BYU-LSU football game bends...
Just when you think football is king, when football thinks it is king, when it considers itself the most important thing in the world, Mother Nature rolls in and kicks it aside, makes it scramble, and,...
View ArticleElectronic device explodes in backpack at Taylorsville High School, causes...
A small electronic device in a Taylorsville high school student’s backpack exploded Tuesday morning, causing minor injuries to three students, officials said.The explosion occurred about 9:45 a.m.,...
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