Featured Stories

Commission Meeting Public Hearing On Budget And Truth In Taxation

Commission Meeting Public Hearing On Budget And Truth In Taxation

Oct 25, 2023 · Basin Now · News

The Tuesday Uintah County Commission meeting included a public hearing on the proposed 2024 budget and a Truth In Taxation presentation regarding the intent to increase property tax revenue by $5,653,500 dollars. Clerk-Auditor Mike Wilkins presented the tentative 2024 budget showing balanced revenues and expenses at $76,940,100 dollars which he stated is a difference of […]

Uintah County Couple Arrested For Tying Up And Starving Adopted Child

Uintah County Couple Arrested For Tying Up And Starving Adopted Child

Oct 24, 2023 · Basin Now · News

A Uintah County couple is being held in the Uintah County Jail on counts of Felony Aggravated Child Abuse. According to each Affidavit of Probable Cause, their adopted 9-year-old child was interviewed at the Children’s Justice Center on October 6th and the victim stated that his mom, 40-year-old Aimee Weber, and his dad, 39-year-old James […]

Three Who Stole $1M Worth of Dinosaur Bones/Sold To China, To Be Prosecuted

Three Who Stole $1M Worth of Dinosaur Bones/Sold To China, To Be Prosecuted

Oct 23, 2023 · Basin Now · News

The U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Utah released a press release on Thursday announcing they will prosecute four people with 13 count indictment charges for allegedly purchasing and selling over $1 million dollars in paleontological resources. Between March 2018 and continuing until at least March 2023, the defendants allegedly purchased, transported and exported dinosaur bones […]

Lisa Jo Vanderlinden Arrested On New Child Abuse Charge

Lisa Jo Vanderlinden Arrested On New Child Abuse Charge

Oct 20, 2023 · Basin Now · News

A Duchesne County woman who pleaded Guilty to 1st Degree Felony Child Abuse Homicide in 2020, was arrested this week on a new offense of Child Abuse. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 46-year-old Lisa Jo Vanderlinden was arrested on October 18th for the offense of Intentional Child Abuse with Injury for allegedly slapping […]

Uintah County Woman Charged After Stabbing Boyfriend With Glass

Uintah County Woman Charged After Stabbing Boyfriend With Glass

Oct 19, 2023 · Basin Now · News

A Uintah County woman has been charged with felony Aggravated Assault after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend with broken glass last month. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, officers located 27-year-old Daidre Isabel Arthur after receiving a report of a stabbing and receiving information on where Arthur was headed after the incident. Officers spoke to […]

Uintah County Man Receives Additional Charges For Dealing Drugs

Uintah County Man Receives Additional Charges For Dealing Drugs

Oct 18, 2023 · Kristin Forbis · News

Additional charges were filed this week in 8th District Court against a Uintah County man currently serving a sentence in the Utah State Prison. 39-year-old Jacob Benjamin Clark has been in and out of jail for over 20 years on charges related to drugs, including being found Guilty of dealing drugs. His current sentence is […]

Republican Party Of Uintah County Against Proposed Property Tax Increase

Republican Party Of Uintah County Against Proposed Property Tax Increase

Oct 17, 2023 · Kristin Forbis · News

The Republican Party of Uintah County has announced their opposition to the property tax increase proposal for Uintah County. The announcement shares the following: The Utah Republican Party Platform states, “TAXATION We accept the necessity for limited taxation in order for government to perform and administer those services which meet essential public needs. However, we […]

Change In Location For Uintah County Public Hearing On Proposed Tax Increase

Change In Location For Uintah County Public Hearing On Proposed Tax Increase

Oct 16, 2023 · Kristin Forbis · News

After the initial announcement and response from the public, Uintah County has announced that the public hearing for the proposed tax increase has been moved to the Uintah Conference Center to accommodate more people. The original notice stated that if the proposed budget is approved, Uintah County would increase its property tax budgeted revenue by 73.11 […]

Uintah County Issues Notice Of Proposed Property Tax Increase

Uintah County Issues Notice Of Proposed Property Tax Increase

Oct 13, 2023 · Kristin Forbis · News

Uintah County has issued a notice of a proposed increase to property taxes. The notice states: If the proposed budget is approved, Uintah County would increase its property tax budgeted revenue by 73.11 percent above last year’s property tax budgeted revenue, excluding eligible new growth. To put that into context, Uintah County shared that the […]

Local Lawyer Dennis Judd Charged Following Utah Attorney General Investigation

Local Lawyer Dennis Judd Charged Following Utah Attorney General Investigation

Oct 12, 2023 · Basin Now · News

Local lawyer Dennis L. Judd has been formally charged after a 7 month investigation by the Utah Attorney General’s Office. On Wednesday, October 11th, the State of Utah Attorney General charged Judd with 2 counts of Voyeurism by Concealed Electronic Equipment and 1 count of Stalking. According to the Special Agent for the Attorney General’s […]

Suspect Found Laying On Highway 40; Booked On Sexual Battery Charge

Suspect Found Laying On Highway 40; Booked On Sexual Battery Charge

Oct 11, 2023 · Kristin Forbis · News

Officers located a man accused of rape in a dangerous location on Sunday. Law enforcement responded to a call of alleged sexual battery in West Roosevelt on October 8th shortly after 9pm and the accused was found laying in the middle of Highway 40. When approached, the man admitted to the accusations and he was […]