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Highway project through Book Cliffs in Utah suspended by The Associated Press Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 4:58 pm EDT SALT LAKE CITY — A group of rural counties in Utah has suspended a highway construction project that would run through the Book Cliffs in Grand County. The group — called the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition — unanimously voted Friday to halt the project because of opposition from residents who live in the county where the highway would be built, KUER-FM reported. The 35-mile (56-kilometre) road was first proposed in the 1980s to move oil out of the Uinta Basin, co...

Flickr The Utah Jazz sale has officially been approved by the NBA board of governors. Ryan Smith, founder of Utah based company Qualtrics, purchased the team for a reported $1.6 billion in October. Friday evening, December 18, 2020 State Utah Ranks In The Top 10 For Unemployment Rate Utah had the sixth lowest unemployment rate in the country for the month of November. That’s according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, the state’s unemployment rate in November was 4.3% up from 2.4% compared to this time last year. Utah also ranked second in the nation...

/ Flickr The proposed Eastern Utah Regional Connection highway would connect Vernal and Moab through the Book Cliffs. Highway-191 (pictured) currently connects the two towns. A controversial highway through the Book Cliffs in Grand County won't go forward at this time. A group of rural counties called the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition voted unanimously to suspend the project in a meeting Friday, citing opposition from Grand County, where the highway would be located. The 35-mile road, which was first proposed in the 1980s, was estimated to cost around $350 million dollars in 2015. O...

KUER Utah health officials have scrapped a requirement for colleges and universities to test their students every two weeks, mainly because there aren’t enough tests. This story and more in the Friday morning news brief. Friday morning, December 18, 2020 State Protections For People With Disabilities And Preexisting Conditions As hospitals in Utah are nearing capacity, there may come a time when doctors have to choose which patients receive care. But lawyers with the Disability Law Center say those decisions — which are based on the state’s crisis standards of care plan — can’t prio...

KZMU News: Thursday December 17, 2020 Girls wrestling is officially a sanctioned sport at Grand County High School, after the school board voted unanimously to approve it for two years. That’s good news for 10th grader Marek Relph, who needed the school sanction to compete at tournaments across Utah. Even though she’s competing solo for Grand County at the moment, Relph hopes by the end of her high school career, there will be a full Red Devil girls wrestling team. And later, revenue from oil and gas in Utah hasn’t recovered since plummeting earlier this year. That means government gran...