Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – The Utah Department of Health did not release a case count on Friday, so Saturday’s case count has been adjusted to reflect cases that would have been included in that report. New Cases 5,042 new cases were included in Saturday’s report. 3,110 of those would have been included in Friday’s report. 281,654 cases have now been reported in Utah. Testing 14,900 new tests were administered since Thursday’s; 9,131 would have been included in Friday’s report. 1,740,903 people have now been tested in Utah. The rolling seven-day average of positive cases is now 2,506, or roughly 27.4% of those tested. Hospitalizations 487…

UTAH – With the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden could return Utah’s two largest national monuments to their original sizes. Instead, he opted to open a 60-day review into how his predecessor shrunk the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by 2 million acres, leaving open a range of options for the new administration. An executive order issued Wednesday instructs the Interior Secretary, a post likely to be filled by Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, to submit findings and recommendations for moving forward on the future of these landscapes that have been ground zero in Utah’s public lands battles going…