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An individual with active warrants was taken into custody last week after law enforcement received a tip that the man was sleeping in a truck near 360 West Main Street in Myton. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 32-year-old Joseph Allen Keel was found in the driver’s seat under a blanket. The truck door […]
Duchesne City residents and those passing through need to increase awareness as UDOT begins work on the intersection of Highway 191 and Highway 40 this week to prepare for a new traffic signal. “The contractor will be working on the shoulders boring holes to run conduit under the road,” shares Tuesday’s UDOT update. “They will […]
There’s some good news concerning a wildfire burning in Duchesne County. The Sterling Fire is located within the Ashley National Forest approximately 22 miles south of Duchesne within the Right Fork of Indian Canyon in steep slopes and difficult terrain. Original estimates on the wildfire’s size were off and the fire was actually approximately 11 acres — […]
A man that called dispatch claiming that his wife had been murdered and her body was in a ditch was eventually arrested for making the false report. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, law enforcement and medical personnel responded to the Tridell area after the call on June 6th at 3:30am in which the […]
Utah saw over a dozen new wildfires start over the weekend and one of those is located south of Duchesne. Utah Fire Info first reported the Sterling Fire on Sunday evening, sharing that it was lightning caused and had burned 7 to 10 acres on the Ashley National Forest about 22 miles south of Duchesne […]
A Vernal teen now holds a state record after an amazing swim at the Utah Summer Games in Cedar City over the weekend. Basin Blast Swimming is a club sanctioned by USA Swimming that consists of swimmers from Vernal, Roosevelt and Price. Swimmers Jaten and Presten Barraclough, Efren Melendez, Keni Porter, Alexander Spainhower and Jarom […]
Today wraps up a 2 week training opportunity for the local National Guard unit at the Vernal Regional Airport. Vernal City shared about the experience on Monday, stating that the annual two-week training is a collaborative effort that benefits both the soldiers and the local community. “This unique partnership arose after the local National Guard […]
Senator John Curtis announced this week the introduction of the Strategic Grazing to Reduce the Risk of Wildfire Act. This bipartisan legislation’s focus is to direct the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service to collaborate with grazing allotment holders, States, Tribes, and local fire departments to create a strategy to use targeted […]
Get your running shoes on and prepare now for the most colorful race of the year coming up next month. Roosevelt City’s Color Run is happening July 3rd at the walking path near Constitution Park and will include a 1-mile run and a 5K. Get registered now to guarantee you’ll get a race shirt. This […]
The man charged in the 1972 murder of Gregory Nickell entered a Not Guilty plea in court this week. 75-year-old Darrel Eugene Choate of Tooele was taken into custody on November 26th, 2024, by Uintah County Sheriff Detectives at a Salt Lake City hospital in what had been a 50-year-old cold case. Choate was 22 years […]
Though not involved in the project, the Utah Petroleum Association issued a press release on the Supreme Court ruling in the Uinta Basin Railway case. UPA President Rikki Hrenko-Browning emphasized that every project, whether a pipeline or a wind farm, “deserves a permitting process with clear timelines and scope, instead of unlimited and unreasonable analysis […]
Whitewater rafting in Colorado attracts enthusiasts from far and wide and The Denver Post has topped their ‘Best Whitewater Rafting Stretches’ list with rafting the Yampa and the Green River within Dinosaur National Monument. The article quotes Colorado based professional river guide Sean Sorrin as saying, “For multi-day river trips, the Gates of Ladore [section] […]