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KNEU 1250The Utah Safety Council has awarded a local construction company based on their excellent safety record. Burdick Materials received the Award of Merit for outstanding safety performance ranked off of their OSHA three year incident report.
Te Utah Health Department has confirmed that there have been two human cases of West Nile Virus in the TriCounty Health District. Duchesne County and Uintah County have each had one human case while three Wasatch Front counties have experienced multiples
Northwest Colorado has been hit hard the last few weeks by wildfire. The latest is the lightning caused Pine Tree Fire which started Saturday afternoon in western Moffat county and grew to over 4,400 acres by Sunday night.
The Department of the Interior has announced new restrictions to streamline the National Environmental Protection Act or NEPA(Nee-Puh) process. According to an E&E News report, the Interior Department has directed that Environmental Impact Statements “shall not be more than 150 pages or 300 pages for unusually complex projects.”
The Uintah High School Student of the Week is senior Sarah Jones, nominated by Mr. Richens. The Ute Athlete of the Week is soccer player Whitney Walk, nominated by Coach Brian Calder.
There are plenty of reasons why fall makes a prime fishing time including the fact that there are fewer anglers and fewer recreational boats. “If you want to enjoy great fishing in less-crowded conditions, fall is the time to do it,” shares DWR sport fisheries coordinator Randy Oplinger
The third and final of three suspects in a Vernal burglary that took place on August 21st has been arrested. According to the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office, 21-year-old Joseph Moralez was arrested in Colorado on Friday
The three girlfriends of a man arrested last week in Fruitland for firing shots during a domestic dispute have also been formally charged. On August 30th, 44-year-old Dorothy Jo Smuin threatened to drive a pickup truck into a cabin if her boyfriend, 41-year-old Ronnie James Manzanares, didn’t tell her who was in the cabin with him, reports the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office.
Uintah High School English teacher Aaryn Snow Birchell has been named the State of Utah’s 2018 Teacher of the Year. The Utah State Board of Education made the announcement on Friday and presented Mrs. Birchell with a check for $10,000 dollars
Today is the last day to submit arguments For or Against Proposition 5, a local sales tax option that will be included on the November Uintah County ballot. The Proposition asks voters to decide if Uintah County shall be authorized to impose a quarter of one percent sales tax which is the equivalent of 1 cent for every $4 dollars spent for the purpose of transportation services such as roads, traffic, pedestrian safety, public transit and non-motorized transportation
A Salt Lake man was arrested and booked into Uintah County Jail on Monday for kidnapping following an incident that began in Salt Lake City and ended in Tridell. According to the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office, Central Dispatch began receiving calls early in the afternoon on Labor Day from a female that sounded in distress but the woman would hang up before information could be gathered.
The first of what will surely be a tradition of successful scholarship golf tournaments for USU-Uintah Basin was held last week at the Dinaland Golf Course, raising money for the region’s workforce and leaders to earn their college degrees.