San Juan County

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.

Energy Fuels executives are touting the potential of their uranium mill in San Juan County to process ore for rare earth elements. They say it will help keep the mill open, but it’s not likely to create many jobs.

Clinics on the Navajo Nation in Utah are vaccinating their employees this week, after receiving 850 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccine is a ray of hope for communities where the virus is over five times more deadly than the rest of the state.

It may be an understatement to say a lot happened in Utah in 2020, both on and off the Wasatch Front. KUER southern news bureau reporters Kate Groetzinger, based in Bluff, and Lexi Peery, based in St. George, spoke with All Things Considered host Caroline Ballard about some of the biggest stories they covered in 2020.

The latest Utah news from Friday evening, November 6, 2020.

4 days before the election, voter turnout in Utah is at 50%. Voting early is particularly important this year, according to elections officials, to avoid crowding on Election Day.

The latest Utah news from Monday evening, October 19, 2020.

The state of Utah received over $1.2 billion from the federal government through the federal CARES Act this spring. Now, some of that money is going to support Native artists in San Juan County.

The latest news in Utah from Tuesday evening, September 15, 2020.

The latest news in Utah from Tuesday evening, September 15, 2020.

A project to bring broadband to southern San Juan County will move forward, after receiving permits from the Ute Mountain Ute tribe. The fiber optic lines will bring faster internet to schools and libraries in Bluff, Montezuma Creek and White Mesa.

The San Juan County attorney’s office is sounding the alarm on what it calls “a developing rape culture” in the county’s public schools. San Juan County…