Click your favorite station to learn more
98.5 The Fox
105.5 KLCY
104.5 KVEL
92.5 Jack
KNEU 1250Local news from across the Uintah Basin.
Thanks to the quick thinking of a group of junior rangers, two vandals are being held accountable for their decision to deface a historical site within Dinosaur National Monument on Friday. According to monument staff, “a 23-year-old female and a 30-year-old male thought it would be fun to carve their initials on an area with 1,000 year old Fremont Petroglyphs at a site known as Swelter Shelter.”
The 2017 general rifle deer hunt has come out of the gates a bit slow. According to the Division of Wildlife Resources, northern Utah including northeastern Utah is among the areas that have seen the biggest change. A total of 144 deer came through the check stations on Saturday and Sunday, shares northern Utah wildlife manager Randy Wood, while a total of 282 deer came through at the same stations last year during the first two days of the hunt.
Smoke clouded the air on Sunday in west Duchesne County due to multiple wildfires that had taken off in Wasatch County near Strawberry Reservoir in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Those fires, the Soldier Creek Fire and Trout Creek Fire primarily, threatened cabins and resulted in evacuations of campgrounds and hunters in the area.
The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition is exploring the possibilities of running a railway that would connect the Uintah Basin to the national railway network, which currently ends in Craig, Colorado. According to Coalition Executive Director Mike McKee, Jones and DeMille Engineering recently analyzed the feasibility study for rail out of the Basin that was performed several years ago, looking at the alternative options, and found that the Craig rail line was worthy of consideration.
The Utah Association of County Recorders has selected Duchesne County Recorder Shelley Brennan as the 2017 County Recorder of the Year. Since 1998, the Association has selected one Recorder who stood out among the rest each year.
The Daggett County Athlete of the Week is Manila High School cross country runner Ethan Clegg. Ethan is a senior this year and competes in both cross country and track and field.
Vernal Regional Airport Director Doug Brown provided an airport update to local officials during the monthly city/county meeting held in Vernal on Monday. According to Brown, the current phase of construction on the runway project is on pace to be complete by December 7th and the final phase will be finished no later than June 25th.
A Basin man is the recipient of a rare award from the Boy Scouts of America. A. Lynn Snow is among the few to be named an Outstanding Eagle Scout during the Celebration of Eagles award ceremony in Provo this Thursday.
Those excited for the upland game hunt in Utah have extra reason to feel eager this year. The Division of Wildlife Resources has announced that they plan to release more than 10,000 pen-reared pheasants on public hunting areas and that the hunt on private land will be longer than last year.
A 36-year-old man is wanted by the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs for an incident that took place on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation last week. According to FBI Public Affairs Specialist Sandra Yi Barker, George Anthony Salinas is wanted in connection with a domestic assault that happened at a home on the reservation at around midnight on Tuesday, October 17th.
Nothing gets serious hunters more upset than the poaching of prize animals they only hope to get the chance to one day hunt. The Utah Conservation Officers Association has announced a case of possible poaching that is now under investigation in the Book Cliffs area where a very large bull bison was found on Saturday.
A former BMX world champion and graduate of Uintah High School is receiving recognition by the Uintah School District for his support of local education.