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>>'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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KDXU) - A bill may prevent Utah employers from asking for proof of vaccination from current and future employees. House Bill 60 was approved by the House Business and Labor Committee Tuesday. It prohibits companies from asking for proof of vaccination for entry into businesses like grocery stores and movie theaters ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4/ KDXU) – National Guard members are training at the Intermountain Healthcare St. George Regional Hospital for the next couple of days. Samuel Retti grew up in St. George and is one of nearly 60 guard members helping during staffing shortages. “ ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4/ KDXU) – If you drove up to a state testing site this week and were told rapid antigen testing isn’t available, that’s because officials found something wrong. “We went back and looked at 18,000 people who did a rapid antigen test and a rapid PCR test at the same time to see what the difference was, and they would test negative on a rapid antigen test and positive on a PCR t

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 ...

HURRICANE, Utah (ABC4) – What started as a pilot program a year ago, is one step closer to becoming a new option for all Utah drivers. “So far we have about 3,000 people that are in the pilot program for the mobile driver license, right now it’s being accepted in just a handful of locations across the state,” says Joe Dougherty, the spokesperson for the Utah Department of Public Safety. Senate Bil

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 ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4/KDXU) – Police are looking for vandals responsible for defacing a public park bathroom almost every day this past week. St. George Police say the vandals are targeting a restroom at St. James Park which is a popular area for locals traveling along the Mayor’s Loop bike path. Officia ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4/KDXU) - One of Southern Utah’s largest employers, Intermountain Healthcare, is reportedly using more outside sources to fight back against the nationwide labor shortage and the pandemic. Travel nurses are used to fill the gaps in areas where staff isn’t available in specialized areas, according to Kam Twitchell, a Human Resources Manager for Intermountain Healthcare. “Based