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  • Red states join push to legalize magic mushrooms for therapy

    February 15, 2023 - 10:00 PM

    SANDY, Utah (AP) — Shawn Blymiller spent 10 years of feeling mostly numbed while prescribed traditional anti-depressants, trudging through his day-to-day life as a suburban Salt Lake City father of two kids balancing the obligations of family and work selling technology software.

  • Psychedelic churches in U.S. pushing boundaries of religion

    February 02, 2023 - 9:00 PM

    HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night in remote Utah, he was hoping for a life-changing experience, which is how he found himself inside a tent with two dozen others waiting for the psychedelic brew known as ayahuasca to kick in.

  • Couple charged with murder of kids in strange Idaho doomsday case

    May 25, 2021 - 7:00 PM

    BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The mother of two kids who were found dead last year in Idaho and her new husband have been charged with murder in a grim case involving bizarre doomsday religious beliefs and two other suspicious deaths.

  • Prosecutor: Couple talked by phone on day kids' bodies found

    August 04, 2020 - 8:00 PM

    BOISE, Idaho - A couple at the centre of a mystery over the deaths of the woman's two children were heard in a jailhouse recording speaking by telephone to each other on the day authorities found their bodies on the man's property in rural Idaho in a case that has attracted national headlines.

  • Church asks Utah Mormons to wear face coverings in public

    July 11, 2020 - 8:00 PM

    SALT LAKE CITY - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has asked all its members in Utah to wear face coverings when in public, a request that comes as confirmed infections in the state increase.

  • Future of Boy Scouts of America uncertain after bankruptcy filing

    February 18, 2020 - 11:30 AM

    Barraged with sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the 110-year-old organization to carry on.

  • Deadly ambush shows Mexico lost control of area

    November 06, 2019 - 1:54 PM

    COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico - When drug cartel gunmen opened fire on American women and children in northern Mexico, the Mexican Army, the National Guard and Sonora state police were not there to protect them. It took them about eight hours just to arrive.

  • iN VIDEO: 9 US citizens killed in drug cartel ambush in Mexico

    November 05, 2019 - 1:30 PM

    MEXICO CITY - Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering at least six children and three women — all of them U.S. citizens living in northern Mexico — in a grisly attack that left one vehicle a burned-out, bullet-riddled hulk, authorities said Tuesday.

  • Beer all over Mormon church parking lot after truck crashes

    October 10, 2019 - 1:00 PM

    SALT LAKE CITY - Cans of beer have littered the parking lot of a church of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a Salt Lake City suburb after a semi-trailer crashed that was carrying cases of brew banned by the faith.

  • The rise and fall of an Eagle Scout’s deadly fentanyl empire

    September 15, 2019 - 7:30 AM

    SALT LAKE CITY - The photo that flashed onto the courtroom screen showed a young man dead on his bedroom floor, bare feet poking from the cuffs of his rolled-up jeans. Lurking on a trash can at the edge of the picture was what prosecutors said delivered this death: an ordinary, U.S. Postal Service envelope.
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit
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