The Utah Department of Health and Human Services revoked the Provo Canyon School's Provo campus' license to operate on Friday, citing the facility's "chronic, ongoing noncompliance with applicable health and safety services" for its patients. The psychiatric youth residential treatment center ...
Provo Fire and Rescue Capt. Spencer Long, his wife, Katrina, and three of their sons were killed in a flash flood in Wayne County on Friday night. Long's death was confirmed by Provo Fire and Rescue Saturday night, and Mona City identified Katrina Long as a former city councilwoman. A GoFundMe ...
Utah Valley University's next president has been chosen. The Utah Board of Higher Education voted Friday to appoint Jon Anderson, a Utah native and president of PennWest University, to the position. Anderson's selection finalized a national search conducted by the Presidential Search ...
Ellie Priddis described Mapleton as a place where her kids are still safe to venture on their own into the neighborhood and can always be tracked down by finding where the bicycles are. “It still feels like our childhood a little bit,” she said. On Thursday night, as ...
The Utah Lake Authority announced this week the launch of a nonprofit organization that will serve as the lake's fundraising arm, the Utah Lake Foundation. Organizers say the foundation's objective is to engage the community and work to expand recreation and improve the ecological health of ...
A previously convicted arsonist was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting the Timp Fire in American Fork Canyon. Conrad Jared Larsen, 46, of West Jordan, faces one count of arson, a second-degree felony, after authorities say he was seen starting the fire near the Timpooneke Campground ...
State leaders say they’re moving closer toward a goal of snapping up more land on the southeast side of the Great Salt Lake to help protect it from any further encroaching development. They announced a new $2.5 million contribution from the Utah Inland Port Authority toward the effort on ...
An Orem man faces an attempted murder charge after he allegedly told his mother there was "something odd about her aura" before stabbing her in the neck with a knife. Dorian Malachi Mecham, 23, was charged Tuesday in Provo's 4th District Court with attempted murder, a first-degree felony, ...
S.B. 284 passed by the state legislature this year limits how municipalities may regulate detached accessory dwelling units, forcing cities to amend their existing policies by Oct. 1. The policy change will have an immediate impact on Utah County cities, potentially making thousands of ...
The Buck Basin Fire in Wasatch County stayed at approximately 230 acres Tuesday afternoon as crews worked on perimeter containment. The fire, located in rural Wasatch County north of Strawberry Reservoir on Forest Service land, was started by a lightning strike Saturday and is not threatening ...
