November’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Utah is estimated at 2.8%, a tenth of a percent increase over October. Approximately 50,300 Utahns are unemployed and Utah’s October unemployment rate is unrevised at 2.7%. The November national unemployment rate...
A high speed chase that started in Wasatch County on Friday morning ended in Duchesne County. According to the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office, Wasatch County deputies notified them of the vehicle pursuit that they just terminated due to adverse weather conditions...
A Uintah County woman has been arrested on drug and child endangerment charges. Adult Probation and Parole contacted law enforcement on December 18th after a home visit revealed dangerous conditions. The AP&P officer reported that he was at the residence of...
A Uintah County man was arrested this week after he was recognized during a traffic stop as a person in surveillance footage committing a criminal act. According to charging documents, 44-year-old Michael Lane Carpenter lied and gave officers a false name when asked....
There will not be an increase in the property tax rate in Uintah County in 2024. The Uintah County Commission met on Tuesday afternoon. First, Clerk/Auditor Mike Wilkins presented the 2024 budget at the amount of $74,125,300 dollars. After some discussion,...
It appears that today is the day the Uintah County Commission will make a decision on their proposed property tax increase, a topic that has garnered massive public response. On November 7th, citizens filled the ballroom of the Uintah Conference Center with the...
Uintah School District was among school districts in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming on Friday that received a generic hoax email claiming there were explosives inside each of the District’s schools. No specific school or district was named in the email and all the districts...
The Duchesne County School District is offering a heads up to the community on records scheduled to be destroyed in case those affected would like to request copies. Special education records of students born in the year 1996 are scheduled to be destroyed after...
An intoxicated man was arrested last week after witnesses reported an assault that took place in a park in Ballard. The Affidavit of Probable Cause states that the report came in on December 9th of a male assaulting a female and that the man had a gun in his truck....
Uintah County Sheriff Steve Labrum and TriCounty Health Director Kirk Benge joined forces and visited the Evans Family Media studios this week to sound the alarm on what they have called the fentanyl crisis that has hit the Uintah Basin. Sheriff Labrum says that while...