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One person was killed and four others injured when a house boat exploded on southern Utah’s Lake Powell late Wednesday night.
San Juan Sheriff Rick Eldredge confirmed the blast occurred about 10 p.m. in Crystal Springs Canyon portion of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which straddles the Utah-Arizona border. The explosion came as the victims were attempting to start the house boat’s generator.
The identity of the deceased was not immediately released. The injured were flown to various ...

Four-time cancer survivor and philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. said Wednesday he would try medical marijuana if given the chance.
In a televised interview with Fox 13 in Salt Lake City, Huntsman Sr. said he was “a very strong advocate for medical marijuana. I think some folks have it terribly confused with smoking marijuana.”
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Two people were killed when a small plane crashed in Butterfield Canyon near Herriman late Thursday morning, Unified Police confirmed.
UPD Lt. Brian Lohrke said the fatalities were confirmed by a Department of Public Safety helicopter dispatched to the scene of the 9:50 a.m. crash.
The plane is a two-seater, so no other victims were expected to be found.
No information was immediately released on the identities of the deceased.
The Tribune will update this story when more information is released...

All evacuations on the southern Utah’s Brian Head Fire have been lifted, but that doesn’t mean its time to pack up the family for an impromptu camping trip to Dixie National Forest.

It’s not often you can watch Wasatch Front thermometers flutter into the upper-90s — and call that a cooling trend.
But highs on Thursday and Friday are just that, compared to the triple-digit temperatures ahead for northern Utah this weekend.
The Salt Lake and Tooele valleys combined party cloudy skies, occasional thunderstorms and rain showers with daytime highs ranging in the mid- to upper-90s on Thursday and Friday. However, clear sunny skies will usher in 101-degree highs in Salt Lake City ...

A woman’s arrest ended a standoff at a northern Utah home where she had fled after allegedly stealing a car from a dealership and leading police on a high-speed chase.
Layton police Lt. Travis Lyman said the 50-year-old woman took keys while at the Young’s Chevrolet dealership in Layton Wednesday afternoon, stole a new red Camaro and then sped away with officers in pursuit.
At one point, the chase was terminated for public safety reasons, but officers were able to track the vehicle and found the...

A federal judge on Tuesday tossed a lawsuit brought by Utah ranchers demanding the Bureau of Land Management remove “excess” wild horses from several areas in the West Desert they say are overrun with free-roaming horses that displace their cattle.
Represented by Karen Budd-Falen, a Wyoming lawyer who sources say is undergoing final vetting to serve as the BLM’s next director, the ranchers argued that federal law requires the removal of horses that exceed population targets the agency has set fo...

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Travelers at Salt Lake City International Airport may now sign up for a service that allows them to skip to the front of security lines literally with the blink of an eye or the touch of a finger at biometrics readers.
The airport is now offering a service called CLEAR at Terminal 2 serving Delta Air Lines — joining 22 other airports nationally that offer it.
But it will cost you, in cash and the surrender of some private information.

Hours before its planned public release, Utah Sen. Mike Lee has yet to see the Senate’s revised bill to repeal and replace Obamacare — and he isn’t sure whether it will include his do-or-die amendment.
“[It] is a bill that still doesn’t exist to my knowledge … That’s one of the reasons why I can’t tell you if I’m going to vote for or against it,” he said during a tele-town hall Wednesday night. About 13,000 people listened to the event by phone and 678,000 watched online, according to Lee’s staf...

A wildfire burned 2 acres near an apartment complex in West Valley City on Wednesday evening.
The grass fire near 2900 South on Decker Lake Drive was reported at 6:30 p.m. and 12 firefighters had the blaze extinguished in 45 minutes, according to West Valley City Battalion Chief Jed Peters.