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Man Rams Noisy Orange Truck, Pushing It 40 Feet Sideways

Man Rams Noisy Orange Truck, Pushing It 40 Feet Sideways

Mar 1, 2024 · Basin Now · News

A hit and run incident resulted in an arrest in Duchesne County on Tuesday evening. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 55-year-old Russell Don Robertson was visiting a friend when an orange truck was driving around making loud noise outside the residence. After some time he left and then came back and met up […]

Naples Shooting Incident Leaves 2 In Critical Condition; Suspect In Custody

Naples Shooting Incident Leaves 2 In Critical Condition; Suspect In Custody

Feb 29, 2024 · Basin Now · News

Two people are in critical but stable condition and the suspect is in custody after a shooting incident in Naples on Wednesday. Uintah School District announced at 12:30pm that Naples Elementary School was on a lockdown due to police activity in the neighborhood near the school for police activity NOT related to the school. The […]

Keys To Stolen Ranch Truck Recovered From Uintah County Jail

Keys To Stolen Ranch Truck Recovered From Uintah County Jail

Feb 28, 2024 · Basin Now · News

When a red truck went missing from a ranch on Deep Creek Road early this week it was located rather quickly and the alleged thief was found to already be booked in the Uintah County Jail. A complainant reported the missing ranch truck on February 25th and told officers that a vehicle had been abandoned […]

Former Swain’s Employee Sporting Broncos Helmet Arrested For Burglary

Former Swain’s Employee Sporting Broncos Helmet Arrested For Burglary

Feb 27, 2024 · Basin Now · News

A former employee of Swain’s Restaurant was found at about 2:15am on Sunday wearing a Denver Broncos football helmet and carrying a large piece of vacuum sealed beef while officers were downtown investigating a vehicle burglary. 25-year-old Glendon Hardy appeared to be intoxicated and when officers asked him where the meat was from he said […]

Uintah School District Announces Teen Center Project For Uintah High School

Uintah School District Announces Teen Center Project For Uintah High School

Feb 26, 2024 · Kristin Forbis · News

A teen center project was preliminarily approved by the Uintah School Board during a special meeting last week as one of the district’s capital projects for the upcoming fiscal year. According to an announcement from the district, funding for the project includes a $40,000 dollar grant in matching funds from The Policy Project, a Utah-based […]

March 5th Primary Election And Presidential Poll Update

March 5th Primary Election And Presidential Poll Update

Feb 23, 2024 · Kristin Forbis · News

Those receiving ballots for the 2024 Presidential Primary Election should have received them in the mail by now but remember, only the Democratic ballots for the 2024 Presidential Primary Election are arriving in mailboxes. The Uintah County Clerk Auditor Office shared this week that any issues or concerns can be reported to their office and […]

Vernal City Council Approves Final Adoption Of Special Assessment Area 2

Vernal City Council Approves Final Adoption Of Special Assessment Area 2

Feb 22, 2024 · Kristin Forbis · News

The final adoption of a second Special Assessment Area in downtown Vernal was approved this month by Vernal City Council. The special assessment areas establish a system for downtown property owners to help with maintenance costs of public improvements to the walkways and parking lots and the Special Assessment Area 2 includes the Cobblerock block […]

Drug Arrest Takes Place After Car/Semi Head On Crash In Duchesne County

Drug Arrest Takes Place After Car/Semi Head On Crash In Duchesne County

Feb 21, 2024 · Basin Now · News

An arrest was made following a head on crash on Highway 40 in Duchesne County on Monday. According to Utah Highway Patrol, a westbound passenger car crossed over into the eastbound lanes and hit an eastbound semi. “That spun the passenger car and it hit a second semi that was also eastbound [causing] serious damage […]

Uintah High Boys Wrestling Wins 4th Consecutive State Championship

Uintah High Boys Wrestling Wins 4th Consecutive State Championship

Feb 20, 2024 · Kristin Forbis · News

The Uintah High School Boys Wrestling team won their 4th consecutive StateChampionship over the weekend with 287.5 team points. Freshman Ethan Sharp,sophomore Rykan Hacking, and junior Brody Rhoades all won their first individual titlesand Junior Michael Alexander won his third individual state title. Mason Holt, ChristianHartle, and Caden Young finished 2nd in their respective classifications; […]

Driver Cited After Crash On SR45 In Uintah County

Driver Cited After Crash On SR45 In Uintah County

Feb 16, 2024 · Basin Now · News

A crash on Thursday morning south of Naples in Uintah County involved 4 vehicles but only 2 drivers. According to Utah Highway Patrol, a Ford F350 pulling a car hauler trailer was traveling westbound on 5000 South approaching the SR45 intersection while a GMC Sierra was traveling southbound on SR45 near milepost 37. The Ford […]

Another Successful Year For Uintah Basin Emergency Care Conference

Another Successful Year For Uintah Basin Emergency Care Conference

Feb 15, 2024 · Kristin Forbis · News

Real life superheroes filled the Uintah Conference Center over the weekend for training and practicing skills at the Uintah Basin Emergency Care Conference. The conference invites emergency response and care providers from Daggett, Duchesne, and Uintah Counties as well as the Ute Tribe and beyond. “This year we had a lot of hands-on training including […]

Happy Valentine’s Day! FBI Issues Warning Of Romance Scams

Happy Valentine’s Day! FBI Issues Warning Of Romance Scams

Feb 14, 2024 · Kristin Forbis · News

Happy Valentine’s Day! The Salt Lake City FBI has teamed up with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah to deliver a warning about confidence fraud, otherwise known as romance scams. “Romance scams occur when someone believes he or she is in a relationship and is tricked into sending money, personal and financial […]