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Mother Son Duo Facing Kidnapping Charges After Taking 10 Month Old Baby

Mother Son Duo Facing Kidnapping Charges After Taking 10 Month Old Baby

Mar 25, 2025 · Basin Now · News

A mother and son in Uintah County are facing kidnapping charges after taking a 10-month-old baby from a residence against the protests of the biological and custodial mother. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, officers responded to a call of a woman reporting that her boyfriend, 29-year-old Kayden Ray Jensen, had taken her baby […]

Uintah County Man Arrested For Child Pornography And Voyeurism

Uintah County Man Arrested For Child Pornography And Voyeurism

Mar 24, 2025 · Basin Now · News

A Uintah County man has been arrested on charges involving child pornography and recording women in a bathroom. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 20-year-old Jaedon Kodiak Nielson got on the radar of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children after he was linked to child sex abuse material that had been uploaded […]

NTSB Shares Cause Of Green River Tunnel Crash

NTSB Shares Cause Of Green River Tunnel Crash

Mar 21, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

The National Transportation Safety Board released a report this week detailing what happened in the tragic westbound I-80 Green River Tunnel crash. According to the report, at 11:33am on February 14th, a 2006 Toyota Tundra pickup was traveling west in the left lane through the tunnel on I-80. Possible ice had formed near the tunnel […]

Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office Ask Public For Help Finding Missing Man

Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office Ask Public For Help Finding Missing Man

Mar 20, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

The Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office is requesting public assistance in the search for a missing man. Onni Raassina was last seen in the Talmage/Mountain Home area of Duchesne County. Onni is a 28 year-old male from Finland with blue eyes, blonde hair, and is 5’9” tall. If anyone has information regarding this individual please contact […]

Investigation Includes Vehicle Searched At Ashley Regional Medical Center

Investigation Includes Vehicle Searched At Ashley Regional Medical Center

Mar 19, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

Police are expected to release information today on an incident that occurred on Tuesday in Uintah County and resulted in at least one person being treated at Ashley Regional Medical Center. Community members certainly took notice of the scene on Tuesday afternoon outside the Ashley Regional Emergency Room entrance where officers had taped off the […]

Duchesne County Man Arrested After Giving Drugs To 12-Year-Old Minors

Duchesne County Man Arrested After Giving Drugs To 12-Year-Old Minors

Mar 18, 2025 · Basin Now · News

A Duchesne County man was arrested on Friday for allegedly giving drugs to 12-year-old minors. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 32-year-old Steven Louis Ozancin admitted to investigators that he smoked Marijuana with the children present on multiple occasions and talked to them about Marijuana, as well as telling them where a pipe was […]

2nd DUI For Uintah County Man

2nd DUI For Uintah County Man

Mar 17, 2025 · Basin Now · News

A Uintah County man that turns 20-years-old this week was arrested for his 2nd DUI on record over the weekend. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, the officer observed a pickup truck accelerating at a high rate of speed attempting to race another vehicle through the intersection of 500 West Main in Vernal. The […]

Wildcat Midstream Begins Work To Expand Helper Terminal

Wildcat Midstream Begins Work To Expand Helper Terminal

Mar 14, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

Wildcat Midstream issued a press release on Tuesday sharing that work has begun on expanding its Helper, Utah, terminal to increase the export capacity of Uinta Basin’s unique yellow and black wax crude oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Helper terminal can currently load 42,000 barrels per day. The first phase of the expansion, […]

Abandoned Vernal Home Burns In Massive Fire

Abandoned Vernal Home Burns In Massive Fire

Mar 13, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

While a fire is never a good thing, there were some lucky circumstances with a house fire in Vernal on Wednesday, namely it was in an abandoned structure. According to Uintah County Fire Warden Jeremy Raymond, Vernal Fire Department was paged to a structure fire on 500 North 500 West in the early evening. Fire […]

Uintah And Daggett County Request That BLM Reopen Sears Canyon Road

Uintah And Daggett County Request That BLM Reopen Sears Canyon Road

Mar 12, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

Uintah County has joined Daggett County in requesting that the BLM reopen a historic road in northeastern Utah. Uintah County Trails Manager Michael Cook presented the request to the Uintah County Commissioners on Tuesday, explaining that Daggett County asked Uintah County to join them in the request to reopen Sears Canyon Road. Sears Canyon Road […]

Uintah County Commission To Review Rules For Property In Ashley Gorge

Uintah County Commission To Review Rules For Property In Ashley Gorge

Mar 11, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

The Uintah County Commission is reviewing the proposed rules and regulations for the 719 acres of county-owned property in Ashley Gorge during this week’s Wednesday work session. In a Monday press release, Uintah County encouraged the public to attend the work session in order to provide input and stay informed of the latest information concerning […]

Backcountry Skier Killed In Uinta Mountains Avalanche

Backcountry Skier Killed In Uinta Mountains Avalanche

Mar 10, 2025 · Kristin Forbis · News

A man skiing alone in the backcountry of the Uinta Mountains was killed in an avalanche on Friday. According to law enforcement, Search and Rescue resources were immediately deployed at the report of a missing skier in the Hoyt Peak area and initiated a coordinated search. Due to hazardous and ineffective searching conditions, Search and […]