SALT LAKE CITY—A mountain climber and a cliff diver have died in separate incidents at national recreation spots in the West, officials said. Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender, 36, of Cincinnati died while cliff-jumping at Lake Powell, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Saturday. The lake is located in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the Glen Canyon…

There is little doubt that a Republican will garner Utah’s six electoral votes in the November 2024 presidential election, but who that nominee will be is a question to be determined during the state’s March 5, 2024, GOP primary, one of 15 contests that will be staged nationwide on that “Super Tuesday.” Seven months before…

The box of treasure stowed by two Utah men lay covered in forest debris along the trail. With cryptic poetry written on a parchment-textured background hinting at the spot, all was in place for a real live treasure hunt. And the prize was open to all. After over seven weeks, a participant in Utah Treasure…

Republican Utah governor Spencer Cox said on Sunday that he’s preparing to sue social media companies for causing harm to young children in the state. During an interview with the CBS program “Face The Nation,” on July 9, Mr. Cox said that “when you look at the new research that’s coming out, there’s not just…

A federal jury found a former Olympic speedskater guilty of fraud Thursday, ruling that the Utah native gave false information to banks to receive a fraudulent $10 million small business loan from government pandemic relief funding. Allison Marie Baver, 42, a retired Olympic short track speedskater who was on a team that won a bronze…

A landmark interregional transmission line project has broken ground this week to carry high-voltage electricity 732 miles from the largest wind farm in North America to Nevada. The TransWest Express Transmission Project (TWE) will take electricity generated by the $5 billion, 3,000 megawatt, 600-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project (CSMWE) located in Carbon…

A school district in Utah has reversed an earlier committee-based decision that removed the King James Version of the Bible from bookshelves of elementary and middle school libraries. The Davis School District—a public system with about 72,000 students—largely pulled the Bible from elementary and middle school bookshelves on May 22 after a frustrated parent convinced…

Continued from Part I The following is some background on what caused the Davis County School District to remove the Bible from elementary and middle school libraries. Chris Williams, the communication director for the Davis School District, told The Epoch Times how the Bible banning got started. He said, “Someone who claimed to be a…

SALT LAKE CITY—Controversy has sprung up in Utah after the Davis County School District Review Committee decided on May 22 to remove the Bible from elementary and middle school libraries. The committee deemed the Bible not suitable for young children because of its “vulgarity and violence.” Their decision came after the bill HB374, known as…

A coalition of states has filed a lawsuit seeking a review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to grant waivers to California that allows the state to ban new diesel-powered heavy-duty truck sales in 2035. Iowa’s Attorney General Brenna Bird led the group of 19 states that filed the legal action on June 5…