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The public body created to guide development in the Wasatch Mountains should immediately halt its work until a court case challenging the Mountain Accord wraps up, an attorney warned Monday.
The letter from Will Fontenot is the latest challenge to the Central Wasatch Commission, the public entity formed to enact policies concerning the mountains following years of work to create the framework, known as the Mountain Accord.
Fontenot represents a group of canyon landowners challenging the Moun...

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Washington • U.S. and Utah flags adorned a corner of the White House State Dining Room on Monday as President Donald Trump touted companies that make their products in America as part of a weeklong promotion.
While Pierce Manufacturing parked a red fire truck just outside the executive mansion, Georgia’s Chick-Fil-a handed out free sandwiches and Vermont Maple Syrup offered tastings.

The Road Home is celebrating the removal of all families from its 210 So. Rio Grande St. homeless shelter, with the caveat that more affordable housing will be needed as shelter capacity is reduced.
Staff worked into the night Friday to meet an ultimatum set in May by the state’s Homeless Coordinating Committee: Clear out the downtown shelter’s family wing and stop admitting families there or forfeit $2.4 million in government funding.
If a family shows up at the shelter now, Road Home staff wil...

In the competitive race to replace Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Provo Mayor John Curtis has collected more campaign cash than his two Republican competitors combined — though nearly half of his contributions come from a $100,000 loan he made to himself.
That’s almost equal to his yearly mayoral salary: $109,500 (with an additional $54,800 in benefits).
But even without the self-financing, Curtis has still outpaced former state Rep. Chris Herrod and businessman Tanner Ainge in fundraising for the ac...

The Salt Lake City Fire Department on Monday narrowed the list of places to ignite fireworks over the Pioneer Day holiday week.
The restrictions will apply July 21 through 27.
The new Salt Lake City fireworks boundaries for the Pioneer Day Holiday are as follows:
• No fireworks will be allowed east of 900 East.
• No fireworks will be allowed west of Redwood Road.
• North and south boundaries remain as they have for the last few weeks; no fireworks are allowed north of South Temple.
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Before he retired earlier this year, the Utah County corrections officer who gave a police report to Brigham Young University’s Honor Code Office was accused by the state’s police regulators of lying to their investigators.
Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) sent Edwin Randolph a notice dated Jan. 23 accusing him of lying three times. Each count concerned Randolph’s explanation for why he took a rape report to the university.

Police have identified the victim of a fatal weekend collision between a man on a moped and car in southeast Salt Lake City.
Richard Waskieswicz, 41, was pronounced dead at Intermountain Medical Center following the 9:46 p.m. Saturday accident at 1100 . 2100 South, police confirmed on Monday.
Waskieswicz was driving east on 2100 South when he collided with the Subaru Impreza.
The driver of the car was tested at the scene for blood-alcohol content, but the results were not released pending comple...

The weekend deaths of a Salt Lake City couple are being investigated as a possible double-suicide or murder-suicide, detectives say.
SLCPD Sgt. Brandon Shearer said police were called to a home near 1600 Wasatch Circle (about 1300 South) at 12:22 a.m. Sunday, where a woman had found her parents, Mark and Nancy May, deceased.
Investigators were awaiting toxicology results from an autopsy to determine cause of death for Nancy May, 55.
“There was no readily apparent cause,” Shearer said.
However, ...

Boise, Idaho • Law enforcement officials say they have located the vehicle wanted in connection with the deaths of three women near a rural southwestern Idaho farmhouse.
Canyon County Chief Deputy Marv Dashiell announced Monday that authorities found the white 2007 Ford Focus in a remote campground northwest of Moran, Wyoming, near the border of the Grand Teton National Park in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Currently, a nationwide manhunt is under way for 60-year-old Gerald “Mike” Bullinger...

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Riverton Music owner Kevin Rindlisbacher now has an electronic sign advertising his Sandy store attached to a pole tall enough so drivers on Interstate 15 can see it as they pass at about 9500 South.
Thanks to a bureaucratic system, he says, it took a year and a half and thousands of dollars in legal fees to get it.
“In October 2015, I contacted the Sandy planning department about placing a pole sign in front of my Riverton Music location at 9491 S.