Emery County

The latest Utah news from Tuesday evening, Dec. 7, 2021.

All healthcare workers and teachers in Utah are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. But public health directors in the southeast part of the state report many are opting out.

Counties in Southern Utah are asking state lawmakers to grant them more leeway for spending hotel tax dollars. They want to use the cash to offset the impacts of tourism and develop infrastructure, rather than promote tourism.

As schools and businesses gear up for closures, school districts in Utah are looking for ways to keep learning going outside the classroom.It’s a…

Rural communities across the U.S. face tough times. But in Utah’s coal country — Carbon and Emery counties — the “Coal Country Strike Team” is stepping in…

A controversial bill to manage public land in Emery County has its first Senate hearing on Wednesday.U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is scheduled to…

A congressional panel took up legislation Thursday to protect more public land in the San Rafael Swell.U.S. Rep. John Curtis, R-Provo, proposed a bill…

Carbon County has the highest rate of overdose deaths from heroin and prescription drugs in Utah, but health workers and law enforcement don’t always…

Legislators continued their two-day site visit through rural Utah Thursday with visits to Emery and Sanpete counties.Thursday’s journey took legislators…

Work could begin soon on a new oil refinery in Green River, Utah, bringing more than a hundred stable new jobs to that community. The Governor’s Office of…