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An ultrarunner on a mission is running through the Uintah Basin as he seeks a cross-country record. Cameron Balser has a fast racing background and an appetite for strange, beautiful distance, shares his website. He is running from San Francisco to New York City attempting to break the 42-day, 6-hour, 30-minute transcontinental running record.
The Bureau of Land Management Vernal Field Office has approved several new natural gas permits in Uintah County. Applicant Koda GNB LLC has been authorized to drill up to fourteen gas wells from the approved Raptor 15 Well Pad. The project location is on BIA-administered lands in Uintah County.
Volunteers are needed for one of the most popular community events in the Uintah Basin. The Downtown Trick or Treat Street event is coming up this Saturday in Vernal. This favorite event welcomed over 8,000 trick-or-treaters last year and organizers are looking forward to another huge turnout this year.
The Bureau of Land Management's Vernal Field Office announced on Thursday the approval of a powerline upgrade. According to the announcement, they issued Categorical Exclusion documentation for the American Gilsonite Powerline Upgrade.
The Uintah County Library has received the Utah Quality Library Award from the Utah State Library Division for the second year in a row. “This is an award for going above and beyond our yearly benchmarks,” shares Library Director Karen England.
VERNAL, Utah, Oct. 18, 2026 (Gephardt Daily) — The Uintah County Sheriff's Office is asking to talk to people stopped at an illegal checkpoint on Seep Ridge Road near Turkey Tracks.
The Ashley Valley Food Pantry was the focus of an agenda item during the Uintah County Commission meeting this week. The Uintah County Commission reviewed a reimbursement contract with the Uintah Basin Association of Governments for the Ashley Valley Food Pantry project.
The Old Grantsville Church Dinner Theatre will bring the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” to the stage Oct. 22-27, bringing to life a story of romance, sacrifice and confronting prejudice during World War II. Set on a South Pacific island, the musical follows Ensign Nellie Forbush, a nurse from Arkansas who falls in love with Emile de Becque, a French planter.
The nonprofit’s call comes after ABC4 reported Menssen’s name appeared on a publicly available list of more than 161,000 Utahns who signed the petition circulated by the Utah Republican Party earlier this year. The petition’s supporters failed to gather enough signatures, so the question of whether to repeal Proposition 4 didn’t qualify to appear on this year’s ballot.
The American Red Cross is calling for blood and platelet donations to maintain a steady supply ahead of the upcoming holiday season. Organizers are specifically emphasizing the need for type O blood donors to ensure hospitals have necessary resources for patients this fall.
Embattled Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby sent a letter to County Council members Tuesday night offering to go on paid administrative leave until his term ends at the end of the year. The letter, obtained by Utah News Dispatch, came ahead of the Wasatch County Council’s 4 p.m.
A Tooele City man was arrested Oct. 10 on multiple charges, including aggravated assault, aggravated burglary and threatening violence, following an alleged domestic incident involving physical violence and firearms. The following information was included in a probable cause statement written by TCPD’s Officer Torres.
County deputies under scrutiny after protester taken down at county meeting by Natalie Wadas, KUTV Wed, October 21, 2026 at 3:57 PM Three people were detained by the Utah County Sheriff's Office following a "disturbance" during a Utah County Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026.