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Immigrants, including refugees, will continue to arrive in Utah after a federal judge said extended family members of residents can enter the U.S., as well as refugees sponsored by resettlement agencies, despite Trump’s travel ban.
The ban requires a 90-day pause on all immigration from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen. It also halts all refugee immigration for 120 days, unless the applicant can prove a “bona fide relationship” with a U.S.

The Unified Police Department said Friday it has agreed to pay $1.2 million to a bystander who was shot and wounded by an officer in 2015.
The officer shot Dustin Evans in a case of mistaken identity — Officer Cory Tsouras thought Evans was the man who had just fired shots at him moments before, according to police.
Tsouras fired six to eight times at Evans, who had pulled his vehicle into a car wash as the real suspect, 34-year-old Jeremy Michael Bowden, had fired at the officer.

Ivins • Utah’s second medical school is set to open Friday morning, effectively doubling the number of future doctors that can train in the state.
Rocky Vista University, a for-profit osteopathic medical school, accepted 135 students this year who will walk onto the 30-acre Ivins campus July 25 to begin their four-year medical education.

When two voting members of the West Jordan City Council blocked another from participating in a meeting Wednesday, two questions emerged: Can a councilman still represent his residents while away on business for an extended period of time? And should he be able to do so electronically?
Mayor Kim Rolfe and Councilman Dirk Burton seem to say ‘no’ on both counts.

With millions of new residents expected to pack into the Wasatch Front’s tight geography in coming decades, Utah officials are studying how to fund better transportation. They heard Thursday how Seattle is facing exactly the same challenge.
Its residents voted two years ago to nearly double transit taxes — raising $1 billion a year — to build more mass transit, especially light rail lines similar to the Utah Transit Authority’s TRAX trains.
“We’re doing it because we’re serious about economic gr...

A weekend heat wave is on the way for Utah, with temperatures expected to climb within a few degrees of setting records.
But you don’t need to make climatological history to take care in the intense sunshine, the National Weather Service warns. Forecasters on Friday issued an elevated, “orange” heat risk warning for those with histories of hot weather sensitivity.
Highs generally will top triple-digits in northern Utah and soar beyond 105 degrees in the south’s redrocks and high deserts this wee...

Sometime Saturday, crews hope to have southern Utah’s month-long Brian Head Fire finally contained.
About 400 firefighters remained as Friday dawned, a number little more than a quarter of the contingent mustered in the days after a June 15 weed-burning project gone wrong sent flames roaring through slopes of beetle-killed timber, old growth mixed-conifer and brush surrounding the Brian Head resort.
“Things are looking up,” said Fire Information Officer Julie Thomas.

In 2015, an attorney advised the Draper City Council to bar political speech in the Draper Days Parade — though he noted that someone could “take a swipe at” the resolution with free speech litigation at any time.
That time is now.
Troy Martinez, a candidate for Draper mayor, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city and its manager, attorney and council members, as well as members of the Draper Community Foundation, after he was denied entry in this year’s parade, which will take place Saturda...

Equipment failure initially has been blamed for a 100-foot fall in Big Cottonwood Canyon that claimed the life of a 26-year-old rock climber.
Unified Police did not immediately specify the exact nature of the equipment failure that led to the Matt Hearn’s fall about 8 p.m. Thursday.
Hearn reportedly was descending after climbing near Storm Mountain when the accident occurred.

Betsy Bivin called in to Sen. Mike Lee’s health care tele-town hall Wednesday night to share the story of her ex-husband, Roy, who worked construction for years but never made enough to afford medical insurance.
Roy then got sick and over time his condition worsened. And worsened. By the time he saw a doctor, he had stage 4 colon cancer.