Uintah News

Jessie Dorrant Freston of Roosevelt served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, later renamed the Air Force, from 1943 to 1946.

Utah's Division of Oil, Gas and Mining estimates that 90 percent of drilling waste is water with the remainder comprised of drilling mud and sludge.

Utah health officials are reporting another death related to swine flu -- the fourth this flu season.

John Gilmore, winner of the first annual Norman Mailer College Nonfiction Writing Award, reads a book in the Merrill-Cazier Library.

Eagle View Elementary principal Robert Stearmer gives a hug of encouragement to Talon Tohtsoni in the hallway at Eagle View Elementary School.

People peer into a hole in Utah Highway 121 where the marker for the Uintah Special Meridian lies.

Long before GPS technology, key physical markers, critical to surveying, were already established.

Over bagels and orange juice, teachers at Hillsdale Elementary School in West Valley City learned the good news Tuesday morning.

Utah State University has recently hired Martha Archuleta as associate dean for the USU Regional Campuses and Distance Education Wasatch Front region.

The honking begins as soon as the guy in the cowboy hat takes his position on Main Street.

School districts across Northern Utah are taking precautions ahead of a speech from President Obama to students next Tuesday.

Parents across Utah are preparing to protest a live broadcast by President Obama scheduled to be shown in schools nationwide Tuesday.

As principal Debbie Koji strolls across the fresh playground blacktop, three children run up and throw their arms around her for a giant circle hug.

A Uintah County toddler was seriously injured last week when he was run over in the driveway of his home by a family member, authorities said.

In an effort to bring innovative new technologies to market from Utah's public colleges and universities, USTAR has launched the Technology Commercialization Grant program.

Fred T. Waltrous, a newsman of note at the time, took over management of the Eastern Utah Advocate on July 3, 1913.

The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY -- When professional appraisers value a swap of state and federal parcels in Utah, they'll have to put a dollar value on a pair of notable natural arches.

Utah felt the heat of more than two dozen summer fires Thursday that closed down roads and highways and even a runway at Salt Lake International Airport.

Utah felt the heat of more than two dozen summer fires Thursday that closed down roads and highways and even a runway at Salt Lake City International Airport.

A motorist was killed when his sports utility vehicle crashed into a flatbed trailer Friday around 5:30 p.m. The accident happened on I-84 near mile marker 81 in the mouth of Weber Canyon outside of Uintah.