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Utah Highway Patrol has provided an update on an accident that happened in Roosevelt on November 26th in which a wrong way driver ran head on into a patrol vehicle. Calls started coming in about a wrong way driver in the Fruitland area on the afternoon of November...

Burning rubber at 3am is bound to catch some attention and in some cases, like the one on November 26th at the Rec Center in Vernal, it may even end in arrest. According to court documents, an Officer observed a black pickup truck doing a burnout in the parking lot of...

Wyoming’s Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office announced this week an ongoing phone scam involving friends and family of current residents at county detention centers. “Scammers claim that if you send them money via peer-to-peer digital payment apps like PayPal or...

A collaboration between USU Uintah Basin and Northeastern Counseling Center is creating a career path for local social workers. USU is highlighting the collaboration on their statewide website this week. The feature explains that the collaboration enables the...

Every Christmas many kids prepare a well thought out wish list of items and perhaps a personalized message for the man in red. A community member has made sure local kids have an easy option for getting those letters to Santa in the North Pole. Santa and his helpers...

Yale researchers have discovered a new lizard fossil at Dinosaur National Monument that they believe is the ancestor of modern day geckos. Yale News shares that the researchers have named the new species Helioscopus Dickersonae. "This discovery emerged from a larger...

Nominations have come in for the talented actors of Uintah High Theatre. Their fall production of ‘The Percy Jackson Musical’ is the first of two musicals the group is entering this school year to be adjudicated at a state level and the judges have announced their...

The holidays can bring out the creative bug in everyone but for the Pierce family of Roosevelt it has become a tradition to share their creative outlet with the community. Bill and Tammie Pierce kick off the holidays with an elaborate Halloween Light Show that they...

The Utah Wildlife Board has approved a proposal to require mandatory harvest reporting for general season deer and elk hunts. For about 20 years, harvest surveys were required for all limited-entry big game hunts in the state and this year there was mandatory harvest...

A fugitive on parole was located in the Whiterocks area and arrested last week after awarrant was issued and officers received a tip of a residence where he may be located.Officers observed lights on in a trailer behind the residence and as officers...