Erin Alberty: To survive the ‘divorce boat’ in Class III whitewater, yell more
It took about 5 minutes in the Salmon River for me to start worrying that my husband and I had drastically overestimated our capacity for teamwork.Water — gallons of icy Idaho water — was dumping over...
View ArticleSawtooth Mountains offer wet and wild adventure a short drive from the...
Northwest of Great Salt Lake, across the Snake River Plain and into the mountains of central Idaho, the famously spiked peaks of Sawtooth Range cut into the horizon.But beneath the jagged panorama, a...
View ArticleMerkel: Europe still 'hasn't done homework' on refugees
Berlin • Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she did the right thing by allowing large numbers of migrants into Germany two years ago, but said Europe hasn’t done enough to resolve the refugee...
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Rainbow trout’s days are numbered on select national forest streams
The Dixie National Forest is poised to wipe out a sport fishery on two streams to restore native trout to parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.In coordination with Utah wildlife officials, the forest is...
View ArticlePac-12 football: Arizona tries to climb out of South cellar, starting with...
Arizona’s football season preview looks a lot like Arizona State’s forecast.The Pac-12′s Arizona schools have followed a similar trajectory this decade, from Arizona’s succeeding ASU as the South...
View ArticleMedicare to foot the bill for treadmill therapy for leg pain
Chicago • Three times a week, Rita Driscoll steps onto a treadmill at a Minnesota hospital under the eye of a rehab therapist. She walks until it hurts — pushing her limits, walking faster and adding...
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Utah’s Tank Hollow Fire nears 4,200 acres
Entering its third week, the lightning-caused Tank Hollow Fire had blackened nearly 4,200 acres of timber, grass and brush in Spanish Fork Canyon by Tuesday.Fire Information Officer Jason Curry said...
View ArticleNFL making $40 million available for medical research
New York • A year after the NFL pledged $100 million in support of independent medical research and engineering advancements, a huge chunk of that soon will be awarded to such research, primarily...
View ArticleIn its first full deployment, elite Utah medical team heads to Houston
The call came a few days ago to prepare as Hurricane Harvey gathered strength before deluging Houston with rain and destruction.Utah’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team answered — assembling at Salt...
View ArticleGorge on late-summer fruit with this tangy orange fruit dip
Late summer fruit is perhaps my favorite. Berries are juicy and sweet, in their last flourish before slipping away into elite and expensive status. Peaches and plums are soft and caramel-like in...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Three Utah State games will stream on Facebook; ESPN still...
The Utah State football team will be on Facebook quite a bit this fall — a quarter of its regular season. We’re not talking about the players going online. Three USU games — Sept. 7 vs. Idaho State,...
View ArticleOusted Navajo Head Start leader says she was illegally dismissed, faced...
Farmington, N.M. • The ousted superintendent for Navajo Head Start says she was illegally dismissed from the program last month and often faced harassment.The Daily Times of Farmington, New Mexico,...
View ArticleMonson: Nature can be one vicious mother, and the BYU-LSU football game bends...
Just when you think football is king, when football thinks it is king, when it considers itself the most important thing in the world, Mother Nature rolls in and kicks it aside, makes it scramble, and,...
View ArticleElectronic device explodes in backpack at Taylorsville High School, causes...
A small electronic device in a Taylorsville high school student’s backpack exploded Tuesday morning, causing minor injuries to three students, officials said.The explosion occurred about 9:45 a.m.,...
View ArticleSpeaker Hughes, Mayor Biskupski air dispute over Operation Rio Grande on the...
House Speaker Greg Hughes and Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski took an apparent dispute over Operation Rio Grande to the radio airwaves on Tuesday.Hughes told KSL’s Doug Wright he was ”frustrated”...
View ArticleUtah's governor in Singapore, Vietnam for trade mission
Gov. Gary Herbert flew to Singapore on Thursday and will remain there until he heads to Vietnam on Tuesday.Utah is a big player in the world's economy. Our trade mission to Singapore aims to make...
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Catherine Rampell : Trump may see himself in Joe Arpaio
Washington • There are lots of compelling reasons not to pardon the country’s most famous racist in the middle of a hurricane.So why exactly did President Trump decide to pardon Joe Arpaio?Maybe, some...
View ArticleRacial content sweeps away 'Gone With the Wind' screening
Memphis, Tenn. • A Tennessee theater has canceled a long-running screening of “Gone With the Wind” because of racially insensitive content in the classic 1939 film.Officials at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre...
View ArticleLogan woman named Utah hunter educator of the year
Becky Smith has spent 21 years teaching hunter education and gun safety to mostly eager young students.That dedication earned the Logan resident the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ award for the...
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A guide to hunting in Utah, a year-round game
As the days get shorter and late summer morphs into fall, thousands of Utah hunters prepare to head into the mountains, fields and marshes.Some are already there. The deer archery season began in...
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