Just when everything seemed to be returning to normal, a new strain of COVID-19 called omicron has killed the possibility of moving beyond this virus in 2022. Omicron has spread throughout Utah at a furious pace this January, and the variant has spilled into the Sanpete Valley as well, according to Nathan Selin,…
Darin Johansen was honored for his decades of service at a retirement party on Dec. 14.
A Sanpete County man who served in the U.S. Navy and was sent to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and help rebuild the country there is now on a mission to rescue his Afghan friends.
For some Sanpete County farmers, all they need to do to dismiss a report that climate warming in the Mountain West may lead to snowless mountain tops and barren reservoirs is raise their eyes to Horseshoe Mountain.
The 2020 census is out and Sanpete County, along with its neighbors in the Six Counties Association of Governments—Juab, Millard, Piute, Sevier and Wayne—is lagging behind in growth.
The transmission rate in Sanpete is regarded as very high, but stable, according to the Utah Department of Health. On Nov. 18, there were 129 active COVID cases in the county.
It’s way too early to declare the drought is over in the Sanpete Valley, but October was a great start to the new water year as frequent storms brought 190 percent of normal precipitation to the San Pitch River Basin.
Sanpete County leaders are considering how to spend almost $15 million that has been dropped into local government coffers because of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).
Several cities have Trunk-or-Treats and other celebrations When the night air turns cold and a layer of frost lingers on the pumpkins in the mornings, everyone knows it will soon be time for finding costumes, buying huge bags of candy and getting ready for Sanpete’s favorite dress-up holiday—Halloween. This year, there will be a bunch…
For mountain bike racers, conditions were perfect for debut races at a new 5.8 mile course built near the Gunnison reservoir on Saturday.