As a throwback ski destination, Alta, thinks small, with a one-room public school to match. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In Utah, a one-room schoolhouse has helped preserve the family atmosphere of a cult-favorite ski town. April 21, 2024 As long as it has had a…
A Utah man accused of posing as a doctor and making at least $2 million selling a fake Covid-19 cure was arrested last week, ending a three-year manhunt that was part of a Justice Department initiative to stem illegal profiteering amid the Covid-19 pandemic, prosecutors said this week. The man, Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, of…
An F.B.I. agent on Wednesday fatally shot a man in Provo, Utah, who officials said was armed and had threatened to assassinate President Biden just hours before the president was scheduled to speak in nearby Salt Lake City. Craig D. Robertson, 75, was also charged with threatening to shoot other elected officials, including Alvin L.…
The pornography website Pornhub blocked all internet users in Utah from accessing the explicit content on its pages in protest of an age-verification law that requires providing identification and was set to go into effect on Wednesday. The law is intended to protect minors from exposure to explicit adult content, its supporters have said, but…
He said Buckskin Gulch is typically dry, but hikers come across a patch of water or a knee-deep pool occasionally. The days before the three hikers set off had been rainy, adding to a season of wet winter weather that had already spewed runoff into the canyon. “It was slow going for them,” he said.…
Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah signed a bill on Saturday that blocks minors from receiving gender-transition health care, the first such measure in the country this year in what is expected to be a wave of legislation by state lawmakers to restrict transgender rights. The law prohibits transgender youth in the state from receiving gender-affirming…
A 42-year-old man fatally shot his wife, their five children and his mother-in-law inside their home in rural Utah before he shot and killed himself, officials said on Thursday. Police officers discovered the eight bodies inside the home in Enoch City, nearly 250 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, while conducting a “welfare check” on…