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Deseret News Share this story Adobe Stock SALT LAKE CITY — A boy who police say was injured after sliding onto a knife that he was looking for had to be hoisted out of a Cache County canyon on Monday and taken to a hospital. The unusual incident started Monday afternoon while two juveniles were hiking in Green Canyon above North Logan. The Cache County Sheriff’s Office office did not release the boys’ ages, but the Cache Valley Daily reported the boys are in their teens. The boys went “...

By Kat Webb & The Herald Journal • Jan 18, 2021 Teachers and staff at Logan and Cache County’s school districts were able to sign up to receive their first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations this week. “It’s a huge relief,” said Jessica Littlefield, a fourth-grade teacher at Cedar Ridge Elementary. “This was pretty exciting.”   Sky View High School’s Kaye Dawn Falslev said this is hands-down the hardest year she’s ever experienced in her 34-year career.   “Fr...

Teachers and staff at Logan and Cache County’s school districts were able to sign up to receive their first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations this week. “It’s a huge relief,” said Jessica Littlefield, a fourth-grade teacher at Cedar Ridge Elementary. “This was pretty exciting.” Pandemic roller coaster Advertisement Sky View High School’s Kaye Dawn Falslev said this is hands-down the hardest year she’s ever experienced in her 34-year career. “From the ti...

Though 2020 is over, its shadow — and that of the COVID-19 pandemic — will still linger over Utah’s 2021 State Legislative Session, which begins on Tuesday.

In a time of one shocking news event after another, a slowly developing regional problem has worsened to a crisis stage without making many big headlines. That problem is drought.

As COVID-19 vaccinations orchestrated by health departments roll out throughout the state, there is greater interest in inoculation than there is supply in the Bear River Health District. “Right now we’re projected this week to be in the negative, meaning we will run out of giving the extra doses out of vials,” said Jordan Mathis, BRHD’s newly sworn-in director, in a media Q&A on Wednesday. The number of doses in a vial has been lowballed, making it possible to stretch how m...

A case filed a year ago against former Cache County funeral home owners accused of mishandling over $772,000 may be moving forward. Lonnie Kent Nyman, 46, and Kent Lloyd Nyman, 73, appeared in 1st District Court on Wednesday for a conference regarding the status of an in-person preliminary hearing in the case. Currently, Cache County is in a “red” phase, indefinitely suspending in-person hearings and jury trials without exigent circumstances as a result of the pandemic. A preliminary ...

UPR received the following information from the Utah Department of Health:  (Salt Lake City, UT) – The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) is offering free rapid antigen testing at many locations throughout the state of Utah. Sites are chosen based on high positivity rates, lower numbers of tests conducted, untreated wastewater sampling, and other surveillance data. Some locations will be drive-through while others will be conducted in buildings. We encourage everyone to continue to wear mask...

Utah's latest coronavirus data released by the state Department of Health.

Utah reports 26 more deaths; Biden official warns it will ‘get worse’ Lisa Riley Roche © Kristin Murphy, Deseret News Chera Fernelius, Bountiful High School sophomore English teacher, gets vaccinated for COVID-19 at the Legacy Center Indoor Arena in Farmington on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. SALT LAKE CITY — Utah announced another 2,146 COVID-19 cases and an additional 26 deaths from the virus Tuesday as an adviser to President-elect Joe Biden warned Utahns the worst days of...