News for Tuesday, October 18th, 2022U.S. Senate Debate: Incumbent Mike Lee Versus Evan McMullin Uintah Basin listeners tuned in to Newstalk KVEL 104.5FM and AM920 last night to the U.S. Senate debate between incumbent Republican candidate Mike Lee and Independent...
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Eldon Fullmer Anderton
Graveside services for Eldon Fullmer Anderton will be held Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 12:00PM at the Tridell Cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held Monday evening from 6-8PM at the Phillips Ashley Valley Funeral Home. Military Honors will be...
Investigators Still Seeking Motive In Maeser Murder/Suicide
Investigators are still seeking a motive in a murder/suicide that took place last week in Uintah County. Uintah County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call of a shooting in the Maeser Sun Ridge subdivision on October 13th just after 8:00am. “When deputies arrived,...
DiaBESTIES Support Group Resumes Today At New Time And Location
September 9th, 2021 was a day MaKayla Adams will never forget. It was the day she was sent to Primary Children’s Hospital because she was in diabetic ketoacidosis. Learning about life with Type 1 Diabetes and living it for over a year now has been a lot to take on but...
Sweetwater County Treasurer’s Office Warns Against Scam
Recently a business reached out to the Sweetwater County Treasurer’s Office to report that the business had received a letter claiming to be from the Treasurer’s Office. The letter stated that it came from the ‘Tax Processing Unit’ of Sweetwater County, Public...
Wide Load Trucks Must Use Alternate Route This Week At Green River Bridge
Drivers pulling wide loads must plan ahead and take alternate routes this week if they had planned to travel over the Green River Bridge on Highway 40. This reminder is to be taken seriously as wide loads will be turned away as UDOT crews work on the resurfacing...
DWR Tagging and Releasing Lake Trout at Flaming Gorge Reservoir
Throughout October, Utah Division Wildlife Resource biologists are partnering with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to catch, tag and then release roughly 1,000 lake trout. They are aiming to catch trout less than 28 inches long as a part of a study. The study is...
Local Places in Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
For over five decades there has been the Nikon Small World Photography Competition and a Uintah Basin resident is in this year’s Top 15. According to the administrators of the event, it is a specialized activity that combines scientific knowledge as well as...
No motive yet in the Apparent Murder-Suicide in Uintah County.
Just after 8:00 a.m. on October 13, Uintah County Sheriff Deputy's responded to a residence in the Sun Ridge subdivision in Maeser on the report of a shooting. When deputies arrived, they found two adult males in separate bedrooms who had sustained gunshot wounds....
Two Males With Gunshot Wounds In Extremely Critical Condition
Little information has been released on a reported shooting that took place in Maeser yesterday. “Just after 8:00am on Thursday morning, Uintah County Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to a residence in the Sun Ridge subdivision in Maeser on the report of a shooting,”...








