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This story is sponsored by Maverik In the 1800s, trappers who settled in then-Cache County used to conceal their pelts and supplies for safekeeping. From this practice, the countys name was coined — derived from the French "cacher," or "to hide." Today, Cache County bears its name well for another reason: it is a hidden treasure of culture and nature. Tucked away eighty miles north of Salt Lake, it is just far enough from the big city to be (mostly) uncrowded and yet close enough for Wasatch ...

Strike up the band. Well, strike up the piano anyway. The Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre has announced it is emerging from a yearlong COVID pandemic hiatus to perform four “intimate” stage productions this summer. Because of concerns about placing a large number of musicians in an orchestra pit and risking spread of coronavirus, the theater company this spring decided to forego the elaborate musicals it is best known for and move from Logan’s Eccles Theatre to the smalle...

Online, mug shots are forever. Some states want to change that By Lindsey Van Ness, Stateline.org Published: May 16, 2021, 2:45pm Share: The wall of shame. Lawmakers across the U.S. are moving to stop police from releasing booking photos unless the arrestee failed to appear for court, was a fugitive or was convicted. (Dreamstime/TNS) After a weekend in the Burleigh County, North Dakota, detention center last summer, Dustin Gawrylow was relieved when the state’s attorney de...

I like to eat. I am really concerned when I look around and see all this wonderful farmland being turned into housing and commercial developments. These developments share idyllic names (Apple Creek, Nibley Farms, Green Meadows) — ironic because these developments have destroyed the apple orchards, the creeks have been re-channeled, and the farms covered with pavement and concrete. Where are we going and who is in charge? Evan Olsen, a dairy farmer and local legislator for 22 years, was a ...

After a weekend in the Burleigh County, N.D., detention center last summer, Dustin Gawrylow was relieved when the state’s attorney decided not to press charges against him. Gawrylow, 38, had been in a fistfight with his brother — a “brotherly scuffle,” he called it — and was surprised to be arrested after going to the police to explain what happened. But even though his charges didn’t stick around, his booking photo did. “In the meantime, my mug shot got out, ...

This story is sponsored by Maverik In the 1800s, trappers who settled in then-Cache County used to conceal their pelts and supplies for safekeeping. From this practice, the countys name was coined — derived from the French "cacher," or "to hide." Today, Cache County bears its name well for another reason: it is a hidden treasure of culture and nature. Tucked away eighty miles north of Salt Lake, it is just far enough from the big city to be (mostly) uncrowded and yet close enough for Wasatch ...

Utah DWR officers rescue deer with a dog collar around its neck UTAH DWR By: FOX 13 News and last updated 2021-05-14 10:14:01-04 PROVIDENCE, Utah — Utah Division of Wildlife officers freed a young mule deer from a dog collar someone had placed around its neck. This happened Thursday near the town of Providence in Cache County. The officers had to wait several hours to get close enough to hit the two-year-old buck with a tranquilizer dart. They were then able to remove the c...

Jose Mena had a hunting rifle and told family members he was going to kill himself, according to Logan City police reports. After the gun was wrestled from him, he grabbed a knife and repeated the threats. But according to records in a wrongful death suit in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Cache County corrections officers did not know the details of why Mena had been arrested, and they said he expressed no suicidal ideation during the booking process that night of Sept. 3, 2016. Sevente...

The Cache County area is officially in attainment of Clean Air Act standards for PM2.5 pollution, the EPA announced Wednesday.

Cache Countys air quality is now in compliance with federal standards Utah State University A web camera shows a view of Utah State University and the Cache Valley in Logan on May 13, 2021. and last updated 2021-05-13 14:57:04-04 LOGAN, Utah — Cache Countys air quality has now achieved attainment with federal pollution standards. The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it had determined Cache County is now in attainment with federal air quality standards. The area hasnt bee...