A pair of nesting hawks, apparently protecting their fledglings, are forcing students, faculty and staff at BYU to take a detour. And they're not the only hawks getting a little close and personal with college students in Utah.
CARBONVILLE, Carbon County — The EPA is monitoring a crude oil spill. A tanker truck crashed Thursday night on SR 6, and the cleanup efforts have taken hours. The Utah Highway Patrol says the truck driver told investigators he got confused going through a construction zone, and headed into oncoming traffic. He hit the bridge and […]
ST. GEORGE — Eleven people have been hit by hawks, apparently protecting a nest in a tree on the campus of Dixie State University. St. George News says the birds swoop down from behind and use their wings to hit people walking by. That area of campus is now closed for the time being. It […]
SUMMIT COUNTY — Summer is a time when many Utahns drive on I-80 through Summit County on their way to or from destinations in the county, or elsewhere in Utah and Wyoming. That includes popular destinations like the Uinta Mountains, Jordanelle Reservoir or Wyoming’s national parks. For the summer of 2018, those summer trips through […]
This weekend’s rain is welcome news for state officials who are already worried about wildfires. “The fuels are very very dry, especially this time of year, which is abnormal, in higher elevations,” said Jason Curry with the state Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. “We are seeing fires up there that are moving and […]
YELLOWSTONE– Wildlife experts are prompting extra caution this spring after a bison attacked a hiker near the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. “A woman was hiking on a trail behind Old Faithful geyser on the afternoon of May 1st. She came around a corner and didn’t see a bison that was extremely close […]
Police in St. George responded to multiple calls of a masked bandit, up in a tree, outside a liquor store. Turns out, the bandit was a ring-tailed cat who climbed up the wrong tree and was becoming distressed.
