COVID-19

We tried something in 2020 and 2021 (and perhaps even now still) as a world society. We tried to eradicate a disease that is virtually impossible to get rid of. Nothing else mattered. We didn't think about the mental consequences of isolating ourselves...

(St. George, UT)  --  The most recent wave of COVID-19 sweeping across the state is affecting more of Northern Utah than to the south.  The current BA.5 strain was responsible for a spike in cases in Southern Utah late June and early July, but has since tapered off locally.  Health offic...

>>'Berlin Candy Bomber' Passes Away At Age 101 (Salt Lake City, UT)  --  A famed World War Two veteran from Salt Lake City has passed away at the age of 101.  Colonel Gail Seymour Halvorsen was best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber," dropping candy for children as flew his plane over the German city.  Governor Spencer C ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU) - Starting Monday, you'll only be able to get a PCR swab test as no rapid tests are available at the St. George testing site on Tech Ridge. The Utah Department of Health is pausing rapid COVID-19 tests at many of its free testing sites in the state ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KDXU) - Governor Spencer Cox is halting a program allowing COVID-19 testing, to help keep kids in school. Governor Cox signed House Bill 183 into law Wednesday. The measure puts a hold on the state's "Test to Stay" program, which required a certain threshold of positive COVID-19 tests before a school could move to remote learning ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4/ KDXU) – Three-year-old Faith is healthier now, but just a couple of months ago she was in the hospital with COVID-19 complications. “This virus doesn’t care who you are, it doesn’t care your age, it doesn’t care anything about you, it can take its toll on anyone it wants to,” says her mother, Tiffanie Porter. Porter says she and her husband ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KDXU) - Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson is isolating after testing positive for COVID-19. Her office says all of her public events have been canceled. Henderson was previously hospitalized in August 2020 with complications from COVID-19 ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KDXU) - The state of Utah has now passed 4,000 deaths from COVID-19 with 22 dying from the virus Thursday. There were 11,608 new cases of the virus Thursday with nearly 2,000 being school-aged children. The state has a record of 756 people hospitalized with COVID-19 ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU) - COVID-19 cases have doubled at Dixie State University in the first two weeks of this semester. DSU is not requiring students to be vaccinated and officials say they are expecting cases to rise amid the Omicron variant ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU) - The battle against COVID-19 in Utah continues. The Utah Department of Health is reporting 18 more deaths related to the virus Wednesday. Another three deaths will push the pandemic's death toll to 4,000. The state also reported more than 12,000 new positive tests for the virus Wednesday ...