Box Elder County News

Farmers who routinely pray for rain are cursing a recent torrent that has destroyed fruit crops in Utah.

Work on the Box Elder County road which provides access to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and its auto tour route is nearly complete for this year.

A Garland man died after his vehicle was struck by another car Tuesday afternoon.

Rocky Mountain Power is suing Willard and individual city council members after the council voted to deny the company a conditional-use permit to bring 345-kilovolt transmission lines through the community.

A Ford Explorer rolled, injuring four people traveling on Interstate 15 near the border of Box Elder and Weber counties Saturday afternoon.

A head-on collision near Honeyville in Box Elder County on Saturday afternoon left a family of five injured, the Utah Highway Patrol said.

Natashia Hendrickson refused to let a terrifying moment paralyze her as she witnessed a co-worker get thrown from his motorcycle after it collided with a deer.

It wasna t that there was too much rain. Ita s just that it wouldna t stop long enough for farmers and growers to do what they needed to do.

A toddler died after accidentally swallowing paint thinner. A medical examiner is trying to determine just how much paint thinner the child ingested.

A preferred route for a possible extension of the Legacy Parkway into Weber County has been chosen.

On the back of this page , there's a story about the new movie "Angels & Demons." I saw it the other night.

By Trent Toone Standard-Examiner staff ttoone@standard.net GARLAND - Believe it or not, there was a time when all of Utah flocked to northern Box Elder County for a good time that had nothing to do with Brigham City or Tremonton.

Box Elder County commissioners approved a letter Tuesday to the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation expressing interest in an project to reduce the footprint of the Little Mountain landfill.

Five separate mosquito pools in Utah have tested positive for West Nile virus, three in Salt Lake County, one in Washington County and one in Box Elder County.

Health officials hope to keep Summit County free from the West Nile virus after mosquito pools in three Utah counties have already tested positive for the disease.

Five separate mosquito pools in Utah have tested positive for West Nile virus, the Utah Department of Health reported Thursday.

Tom Bennett says he's just trying to be more accountable to his boss. Bennett, Box Elder County auditor, said as an elected official, he is supposed to be accountable to the people who elected him, but they had no way of knowing what he did, no department head to turn a timecard in to.

Box Elder County is hoping to better battle noxious weeds. At the Tuesday commission meeting, county weed supervisor Rick Kent presented a new plan to split the county into four noxious weed zones.

BOX ELDER COUNTY COURTHOUSE has undergone a major facelift and the final product will be unveiled with a ribbon cutting on Friday and an open house both Friday and Saturday.

Residents were a little shaken when an earthquake hit just west of Riverside on Wednesday afternoon.A The earthquake was reported as a 4.0 on the Richter scale.