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(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The state of Utah wants to know if it's feasible to start a program to retrofit homes and buildings to help protect them from earthquakes. The Utah Division of Emergency Management will carry out a study to identify the costs associated with such a retrofit...

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Utahans are paying more for gas than the national average. GasBuddy reported today that the national average for a gallon of regular gas is now three-99. It's the first time since March the national average has been under four-dollars...

(St. George, UT) -- Mossy Cave in Bryce Canyon National Park is on the list of 2022 Hot Spots from the Subaru Leave No Trace organization. A second parking lot had to be added in the past few years due to increased interest. Up to five-thousand people a week visit the four-tenths of a mile long corridor...

(Moab, UT) -- Officials in Moab, Utah, are offering no comment on the announcement of a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of Gabby Petito. The Moab Police Department and the City of Moab both declined comment yesterday citing pending litigation...

(Moab, UT) -- The family of Gabby Petito is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the Police Department in Moab. The 50-million-dollar lawsuit says the department neglected its duty to provide the training and resources its officers need to do their job...

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- Forty-eight people have tested positive for monkeypox in Utah as of the end of last week. The Salt Lake County Health Department over the weekend had 500 vaccine doses for men who have sex with other men, are not in monogamous relationships, and don't have any symptoms of the illness...

(Cedar City, UT) -- A rollover crash on a dirt road still under construction in southwest Cedar City has a woman hospitalized with serious injuries. She was a passenger in an older Chevrolet Silverado that rolled over once and came to rest on its wheels...

(St. George, UT) -- Utah Tech University swore in the school's interim Chief of Police Friday morning on-campus. Ron Bridge is a former police captain at the college, formerly known as Dixie State University. “We are thrilled that Captain Ron Bridge accepted the position of Interim Chief of Police for the Utah Tech Police Department,” Vice President of Administrative Affairs Paul Morris said. “Ron

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The Utah Water Resources Board is approving nearly 200-million dollars in grants to add meters to secondary water connections throughout the state. The Utah Legislature approved a plan earlier this year to help add meters to currently unmonitored connections...

(Beryl, UT)  --  A 15-year-old girl is hospitalized at St. George Regional Hospital after crashing an all-terrain vehicle into a pickup truck hauling a horse trailer in Beryl. She was airlifted to St. George and was not wearing a helmet when she crashed. Iron Cou...

(Cedar City, UT) -- An Arizona man could spend the rest of his life in prison for raping a Cedar City woman in 2004. David Slade was sentenced this week after pleading guilty and is currently serving 15 years in an Arizona prison for a similar crime...

(St. George, UT) -- Utah state House District 72 candidate Willie Billings has pulled his legal complaint seeking a full hand recount of his primary loss to Joe Elison. Billings cited how much it would cost for his reasoning. He lost by eleven votes after a machine recount found four more votes for Elison...

(St. George, UT) -- A man is dead after an Officer-Involved Shooting at the I-15 Northbound Point of Entry just inside the Utah State Line from Arizona Wednesday morning. This happened around 7:21am when the UHP got a call about a suspicious vehicle there...

(Salt Lake City, UT)  --  Most Utahns are willing to do more to conserve water to help ease the effect the drought is having on the state.  A Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll released last week asked Utahns what could be done to help increase conservation efforts.  Fifty-percen...

(Salt Lake City, UT)  --  Governor Cox is urging President Biden to reconsider proposed new rules that would include sexual orientation and gender identity as considerations under Title Nine.  The Utah Republican sent a letter to Biden yesterday asking him to keep from enacting new regulations on programs such as school meals, health care and education.  The governor...