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Tonight’s USU Speaker Series to Feature Wes Porter

Tonight’s USU Speaker Series to Feature Wes Porter

Utah State University will be having their monthly Uintah Basin Speaker Series tonight and the speaker is Vernal resident Wes Porter, the Utah Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Accelerator Director. Porter also serves as an officer in the Utah Army National Guard. He...

Electric Portable Space Heater Safety Tips

Electric Portable Space Heater Safety Tips

The Duchesne Volunteer Fire Department has shared tips for electric portable space heater safety. It is very common when the weather turns cold, that households supplement central heating or heat one room with portable space heaters. Two in five deaths in space heater...

Utah Cutthroat Slam Reaches Huge Milestone

Utah Cutthroat Slam Reaches Huge Milestone

It might have slipped past the radar of people in the Uintah Basin but the Utah Cutthroat Slam, a fishing challenge launched  by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Trout Unlimited, reached a milestone last month. There have been 1,000 completions of the slam....

Joint Task Force Executes Drug Bust In Rifle, Colorado Area

Joint Task Force Executes Drug Bust In Rifle, Colorado Area

Months of investigation and coordination culminated in a mass execution of arrest and search warrants last week in the Rifle, Colorado area. The Rifle Police Department shares that investigators from the TRIDENT/TAG Join Task Force led an investigation of cocaine...

Dinosaur National Monument in a Video Game?

Dinosaur National Monument in a Video Game?

Dinosaur National Monument is popping up in the gaming world if you can believe it. A research report from the University of Birmingham about assessing the educational potential of video games, analyzes the representation of paleontology in hundreds of video games. In...

Uintah Animal Control and Shelter Statistics

Uintah Animal Control and Shelter Statistics

The Uintah Animal Control and Shelter Special Service District has released their statistics for August and September. Animal control officers answered 595 calls for service and drove 6,330 miles. At the Animal Shelter there were 166 felines, 145 canines and 5 guinea...

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