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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Only one of Utah's five national parks will be staffed after the new year as the state pulls back funding during the partial US government shutdown. Utah Office of Tourism managing director Vicki Varela said Friday that a nonprofit will pay to keep Zion National Park open Jan. 1-5 with skeleton staffing and services such as public restrooms, clean bathrooms and trash collection. The other four parks _ Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef _ will remain open without those services.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who prosecutors say was drunk and speeding when her car struck and killed a Taylorsville man in a crosswalk has been sentenced. A judge on Friday ordered Roxanna Molina to serve up to 20 years in prison for killing 19-year-old Robert Harsh on the night before Thanksgiving in 2017. The 28-year-old woman pleaded guilty in June to charges of automobile homicide and failure to remain at the scene of an accident involving death.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona and Utah are now in sync on what's needed to fish on Lake Powell, the Colorado River lake that straddles the border between the two states. The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources announced Friday that residents of Arizona and Utah as of Tuesday, Jan. 1, may buy just a resident license from their home state and fish all of the lake with only that one license.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An annual northern Utah event honoring American West railroad history is being canceled due to the government shutdown. The Winter Steam Festival at the Golden Spike National Monument northwest of Ogden was scheduled for Friday and Saturday. A U.S. government webpage for the event shows it was cancelled due to the ongoing shutdown. The festival draws train enthusiasts and photographers to watch as steam billows in the wintery air as the old trains move along the tracks.
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