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The Southwest Utah Public Health Department (SWUPHD) is reporting the COVID-19-related death of a local resident. The woman, an older adult under the age of 60, passed away yesterday in a Salt Lake area hospital. She had significant underlying health conditions ...

Public health officials in Los Angeles report that a minor has died from the coronavirus in the US. The minor is believed to be the first person under 18 to die from the coronavirus pandemic in the US. “A devastating reminder that COVID-19 infects people of all ages,” an LA health official said. The L.A ...

The Southwest Utah Public Health Department has confirmed the first flu-related death of Southern Utah. According to the SWUPHD, the individual who died recently was an adult under the age of 65 who was infected with influenza type A. “We have had 36 people hospitalized from the flu this season,” reports Kassidy Peterson, SWUPHD Epidemiologist. “Their age...

Zion National Park confirms that the body found Thursday, November 21 was that of 19-year-old Savannah McTague. McTague, from Maine, was a Xanterra concession employee working at Zion Lodge. McTague had been out hiking on Angels Landing with two colleagues late afternoon on Wednesday, November 20...

A Moab man is dead after a skydiving accident. Twenty-three-year-old Spencer W. Connolley landed hard Sunday in the zone used by skydivers at the Canyonlands Airport, according to the Grand County Sheriff's office. Authorities say they're not sure what caused the accident, and they're investigating it...