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Ashley Regional Medical Center Receives HealthInsight Quality Award

Oct 25, 2017 · Basin Now · Uncategorized

Ashley Regional Medical Center is the latest recipient of the Quality Award from HealthInsight, an independent quality organization. The award was presented to hospital representatives at a banquet on October 19th in St. George with Ashley Regional as one of ten hospitals in the state of Utah to be recognized. The HealthInsight Quality Award program was launched in September 2004 in order to promote transparency in health care. The award is for providers in nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies and physician offices. HealthInsight uses national rankings in determining the award recipients. Congratulations Ashley Regional Medical Center on being recognized for delivering quality care.

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Duchesne County Recorder Awarded

Oct 24, 2017 · Basin Now · News

The Utah Association of County Recorders has selected Duchesne County Recorder Shelley Brennan as the 2017 County Recorder of the Year. Since 1998, the Association has selected one Recorder who stood out among the rest each year.

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George Anthony Salinas: Wanted by the FBI and BIA

Oct 23, 2017 · Basin Now · News

A 36-year-old man is wanted by the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs for an incident that took place on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation last week. According to FBI Public Affairs Specialist Sandra Yi Barker, George Anthony Salinas is wanted in connection with a domestic assault that happened at a home on the reservation at around midnight on Tuesday, October 17th.

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Former UHP Trooper Enters Not Guilty Plea to Arson Charges

Oct 20, 2017 · Basin Now · News

The former UHP trooper charged with Arson in the Maeser Highway Fire pleaded Not Guilty this week to the charges in 8th District Court. The Maeser Highway Fire started on June 9th in Uintah County and burned over 2,500 acres. On August 8th, the Utah Attorney General’s Office charged former trooper, 37-year-old Rex Richard Olsen, with one count of Second-Degree Felony Arson as well as a second charge for placing a lighted item on a highway/wildland area, a class B misdemeanor.

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US Attorney’s Office Files Suit Against Group Over Illegal Hunting Licenses

Oct 20, 2017 · Basin Now · News

The United States Attorney’s Office of the District of Utah filed a complaint Wednesday against the group that calls themselves the “Uinta Valley Shoshone Tribe” for selling hunting and fishing licenses on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. According to the press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the law allows the U.S. to seek a civil injunction to stop what they consider in this case to be wire fraud while they conduct a further investigation.