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Unsplash Utah health officials are encouraging people to still wear masks after the statewide mandate ends Saturday. This story and more in Friday evening's news brief. Friday evening, April 9, 2021 Northern Utah Salt Lake City School District Votes To Push Back Start Times Students in the Salt Lake City School District will be able to sleep in a little more next fall. The district voted this week to delay the start time for some schools by an hour, moving the high school start to 8:45 a.m. and extend the day to 3 p.m. The board also decided to move all middle schools to an 8 a.m. start t...

1 Min Read A conservation group sued the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., federal court on Thursday over 32 Trump-era oil and gas leases in Utah, alleging that the DOI proceeded without properly assessing their impacts on the area’s archaeology and nature including in the nearby Bears Ears National Monument. Friends of Cedar Mesa, whose staff met Wednesday with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as she visited the monument’s visitor center, claims in its lawsuit that the DOI has violated the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NE...

One side of the “Birthing Scene” petroglyph near Moab, Utah. (Courthouse News photo / Kelsey Jukam) (CN) — A conservation group sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court Thursday, claiming the agency issued dozens of oil and gas leases without adequately considering the impact they would have on the more than 50,000 acres in Southeastern Utah that are jam-packed with archeological sites.  “During the Trump Administration, there was a fire sale of lands throughout the West,” said Josh Ewing, executive director of Friends of Cedar Mesa, which filed the lawsuit. “That...

Interior secretary to meet with state leaders, tribes. (Susan Montoya Bryan | The Associated Press) U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens to tribal leaders during a round-table discussion at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The visit marked Haaland's first to her home state after being confirmed as head of the federal agency, making her the first Native American to hold a Cabinet position. She was in southern Utah on Wednesday.   | April 8, 2021, 12:43 a.m. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will visit the Grand Staircase-Escalante Nationa...

Tourists and looters descend on Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument as Biden mulls protections Published 3 hours ago Share on Facebook Print article BLUFF, Utah - In the sandstone canyon where Vaughn Hadenfeldt once saw the bloody tracks of a mountain lion hauling off a mule deer, there are 1,000-year-old cliff dwellings decorated by rock paintings of bighorn sheep where one can still see the ancient footprint of an infant pressed into the wall. A renowned wilderness guide with decades of experience exploring the Bears Ears area, Hadenfeldt has long argued that this austere landscape ...