There will not be an increase in the property tax rate in Uintah County in 2024. The Uintah County Commission met on Tuesday afternoon. First, Clerk/Auditor Mike Wilkins presented the 2024 budget at the amount of $74,125,300 dollars. After some discussion,...
It appears that today is the day the Uintah County Commission will make a decision on their proposed property tax increase, a topic that has garnered massive public response. On November 7th, citizens filled the ballroom of the Uintah Conference Center with the...
Uintah School District was among school districts in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming on Friday that received a generic hoax email claiming there were explosives inside each of the District’s schools. No specific school or district was named in the email and all the districts...
The Duchesne County School District is offering a heads up to the community on records scheduled to be destroyed in case those affected would like to request copies. Special education records of students born in the year 1996 are scheduled to be destroyed after...
An intoxicated man was arrested last week after witnesses reported an assault that took place in a park in Ballard. The Affidavit of Probable Cause states that the report came in on December 9th of a male assaulting a female and that the man had a gun in his truck....
Uintah County Sheriff Steve Labrum and TriCounty Health Director Kirk Benge joined forces and visited the Evans Family Media studios this week to sound the alarm on what they have called the fentanyl crisis that has hit the Uintah Basin. Sheriff Labrum says that while...
Two people, including a minor, were treated for injuries at Ashley Regional Medical Center after a violent rampage that took place on December 10th in Uintah County. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 50-year-old Dustin Joseph Bryant broke multiple windows...
A Vernal man is scheduled to make an initial appearance in court today after his arrest last week on Child Rape charges. According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, 38-year-old Daniel Jobe Justice was arrested on December 5th on four acts of alleged sexual abuse of...
A traffic stop ended in arrest on Tuesday and at least some Fentanyl pills are now off the streets. On the evening of December 5th, 41-year-old Kristine Phillips of Colorado was pulled over in Uintah County on SR-121 near milepost 36. When the passenger opened the...
A request for a rehearing concerning the Uinta Basin Railway was officially denied this month. The 7 County Infrastructure Coalition had requested a rehearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals before all judges rather than a three-judge panel of an August ruling. The Final...