Author: Mariah Wheeler

Ogden, UTAH – According to the state officials, the nominees for the vacancy are: Ryan Christiansen, Attorney/Section Director, Utah Attorney General’s Office; Eric Gentry, Deputy County Attorney, Washington County Attorney’s Office; Bryan Pattison, Partner/Shareholder, Blanchard Pattison LLC; Charlotte Saguibo, Attorney, Utah County Attorney’s Office; Jay Winward, Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office. Written comments can be submitted to the Fifth District Judicial Nominating Commission at [email protected] or Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, P.O. Box 142330, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2330. The deadline for written comments is noon Nov. 14, 2022.  This position results from the retirement of Judge Jeffrey C. Wilcox, February…

Ogden, UTAH – According to the state officials, this is reportedly a new tool highlighting the success of the Invasive Species Mitigation Weed Control Program. In the past three years alone, the ISM program has funded 118 projects treating over 3.3 million across the state through 4.7 million dollars in funding. Noxious weeds compete directly with beneficial native plants and can cause devastating impacts to agriculture, wildlife habitat, native ecosystems, and increase wildfire fuel loads to catastrophic levels.  These weeds cost an estimated $26.4 billion per year in agricultural economic losses in the United States. All of Utah’s 29 counties face…