PROVO, Utah (AP) — Republican voters in Utah will decide on Tuesday whether the state’s most famous moderate conservative, retiring U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, will be succeeded by someone similarly willing to challenge GOP hard-liners or a farther-right candidate who pledges to fall in line with former President Donald Trump. The primary duel between GOP […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and boost fossil fuel production in rural eastern Utah. The justices will review an appeals court ruling that overturned the approval issued by the Surface Transportation Board for the Uinta Basin […]
See something we missed? Call the ABC4 Tipline at (801) 975-4401. SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Today’s severe thunderstorm activity across Utah has led to some flash flooding, landslides and even road collapses in various areas. Moab Flooding Moab Police reported flash flooding as Mill Creek overflowed its banks this evening at 400 East and […]
LEHI, Utah (ABC4) — The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for a portion of southern Salt Lake County and northern Utah County as storms roll in through the Beehive State. The thunderstorm warning was issued just before 1 p.m. and is expected to be in effect until 1:15 p.m. for the […]
The state House of Representatives debated then voted overwhelmingly in favor of two resolutions that authorize educators to enforce state law over new Title IX regulations, as more than 100 protesters chanted in favor of transgender rights in the rotunda of the Utah State Capitol on Wednesday. The bills were also overwhelmingly approved by the […]
Power lines lead into the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant on March 28, 2016 outside Delta, Utah. The IPP generates more then 13 million megawatt hours of coal-fired energy each year to Utah and Southern California. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images) The Intermountain Power Agency has new deadlines to submit a notice to decommission its coal […]
Transgender rights advocates protest at the Utah State Capitol on June 19, 2024, ahead of a House vote to not comply with a new Title XI rules that offer protection against discrimination based on students’ gender identity. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch) During a special legislative session on Juneteenth, Utah lawmakers declared they will not comply […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — The Utah woman charged with sexual battery for allegedly yanking on a teenager’s miniskirt in a St. George restaurant made her first court appearance Wednesday in a case that garnered national attention due to a viral TikTok video. Ida Ann Lorenzo, 48, of Santa Clara, stood silently in 5th District […]
As state lawmakers prepared for a special session to consider the impacts of new federal Title IX regulations, state education leaders met with a legislative commission urging the Utah Legislature to provide clarity over an apparent conflict between the regulations and a public school restrooms bill. HB257 requires K-12 students to use public school restrooms […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A twin-engine airplane that was believed to be on the way to Utah crashed into a Colorado mobile park on Monday, killing the passengers. Officials with Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue in Colorado said the aircraft — a Cessna 421 plane — is believed to have left from Longmont, Colorado, about […]
SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — You’ve heard about the proposed plans look to demolish Utah’s iconic Old Mill — and it seems the building is closer to a fate of destruction. ABC4’s Craig Wirth was at the mill decades ago and gathered pictures and advertisements back when it was a speak-easy nightclub … and […]
LAYTON, Utah — Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles dedicated the Layton Utah Temple on Sunday, June 16. The Apostle was accompanied at the dedication by his wife, Sister Susan Bednar; Elder Brian K. Taylor, General Authority Seventy and second counselor in the Utah Area presidency; his wife, Sister Jill Taylor; Elder Kevin R. […]