Duchesne County News

A Boy Scout is lost in Utah's High Uintas tonight. The 14-year-old is missing in the Kidney Lake area of Duchesne County and was last seen at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

A wildland firefighter has been injured while working on the Mill Hollow Fire in Duchesne County.

A 14-year-old Boy Scout has been missing in the high Uinta Mountains since Tuesday.

A 61-year-old Ohio man is missing in the Uinta Mountains after he was last seen Friday at about 1 p.m. hiking Kings Peak, which is the highest mountain in Utah.

Filomeno Valenchia Ruiz had a deal. The ranch hand pleaded guilty to a pair of first-degree felony murder charges and testified against John Pinder, who was convicted of killing two people and blowing up their ...

Mike Haugen stands on Mount McKinley in Alaska, the first climb on his list of the highest peak in each of the 50 states.

A 14-year-old girl is now charged with manslaughter for backing over a Duchesne County toddler with an SUV - an incident family members called an accident she shouldn't be prosecuted for.

A truck driver from Texas is dead after rolling his semi in Duchesne County. The truck was heading south on SR-191, in Indian Canyon, when it took a curve too fast and rolled 75 yards down an embankment, ...

A tanker spilled thousands of gallons of fuel into Indian Canyon late Tuesday after rolling on U.S. 191 in Duchesne County.

UBET reports profits, future technologies Geoff Liesik 24.JUN.08 UBTA-UBET Communications held its 55th Annual Meeting on Thursday at Roosevelt Junior High School, where the cooperative's leaders reported ...

Teachers to benefit from leeway tax ViAnn Prestwich 17.JUN.08 About $100,000 will be added to the school district coffers in Duchesne County if the public passes a proposed voted leeway tax increase during next ...

Three men accused of poaching protected wildlife - ' two of them father and son - ' settled their criminal cases with prosecutors last week in Duchesne and Uintah counties.

Labrum looks to follow Snow Preston McConkie 17.JUN.08 People driving from the Salt Lake area to the Uintah Basin inevitably pass through Wasatch County, but if they're only going as far as Heber City they may ...

Geoff Liesik 10.JUN.08 POLICE: MOTHER OF UNDERAGE DRIVER FLED AFTER CRASH Duchesne County prosecutors have charged a Roosevelt woman and her 14-year-old daughter with manslaughter in the death of a toddler who ...

A Uintah County man who had his "tribe" declared a fraud by a federal judge has been charged with helping a fugitive from Iowa elude capture and with possessing child pornography.

A woman is charged with manslaughter after her 14-year-old daughter struck and killed a toddler while driving a sport utility vehicle in Roosevelt.

Duchesne County prosecutors have charged a 34-year-old woman with manslaughter in the death of a toddler who was run over by the woman's 14-year-old daughter.

Duchesne County officials are disputing claims that they discriminated against the clients of a proposed residential treatment center by changing zoning regulations.

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has announced $1.8 million in grants to water districts for 10 projects to improve delivery systems in four states, including Utah.

Animal district's future uncertain Preston McConkie 27.MAY.08 The Duchesne County Animal Control District, now nearly 9 months old, may soon exist mostly in name or fade away completely now that Duchesne County ...