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Deseret News Share this story Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News That was in June. If you remember, Herbert had just approved requests from leaders in Summit and Salt Lake counties to impose mask mandates in public. Piute County, meanwhile, was on “green” status, the least restrictive. Nobody was required to wear a mask there; it was only suggested. That didn’t stop Commissioner Darin Bushman from issuing a long screed about personal freedoms. In many ways, it kind of defined the great struggle of 2020, which was eerily similar to the great struggle of the 1918-20 flu pandemic, in which p...

A Utah legislative panel advances a bill that would allow Moab and other Utah resort cities to crack down on overnight night from off-highway vehicles.

Moab residents sound off against OHV noise. Lawmakers listen, advance bill that may silence the vehicles at night. Zak Podmore © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (Murice D. Miller | Special to The Tribune) Millions of visitors flock to Moab every year, and city and county officials said they're receiving a flood of complaints about noise from off-highway vehicles on city streets. When state Sen. Jacob Anderegg and his family visited Moab in October, they were unable to sleep in during their vacation. One morning at 5 a.m., two dozen two-stroke cycles came roaring down Main Str...

The County Seat looks at rural EMS   Last year there was a big push by EMS directors to bring the issue of losing volunteers and needing funding for EMS to the legislature. There was a lot of work done and several bills that came out of this effort. Then COVID-19 hit and the state had to go back and make cuts to the budget. This cut funding for HB389 in half (about $1.5 Million for EMS funding). This week on the County Seat they looked at Representative Dan Johnson's effort to codify EMS as an essential service and what legislators are considering for 2021 to solve the rural EMS proble...