WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: ST. GEORGE, Utah -- The Bureau of Land Management's Arizona Strip District is planning prescribed burning operations to burn cut and piled invasive vegetation removed as part of an ongoing riparian restoration project in the Kanab Creek drainage, located 30 miles south of Fredonia, Ariz. Burning may occur over multiple days starting in November 2023 and could last through la  more

HILL AFB, Utah, Nov. 30 -- The U.S. Air Force Hill Air Force Base (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: By Richard Essary, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Organizations at Hill Air Force Base played a key role in completing a data consolidation project that will enhance the logistics tracking and management of munitions across the Air Force. The project, which was initiated in response to a 2020 Headquarters Air Force directive to merge the Integrated Missile Data Base, was comple  more

HILL AFB, Utah, Nov. 30 -- The U.S. Air Force Hill Air Force Base (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: By Todd Cromar 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs F-35 maintenance experts here are taking on a seemingly impossible task - stitching two mishap damaged aircraft together into a restored, fully operational F-35A Lighting II. Led by the F-35 Joint Program Office, the project requires a "dream team" of uniquely qualified individuals from the JPO, the 388th Fighter Wing, the Ogden Air  more

TREMONTON, Utah, Nov. 29 -- The U.S. Air Force Hill Air Force Base (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: By R. Nial Bradshaw, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs The Minuteman III Missile Mishap Response Team (MMRT) from Hill Air Force Base conducted an off-base, weeklong missile mishap hazmat exercise at the Box Elder County Fairgrounds with state and local first responders from Oct. 30-Nov. 3, 2023. The exercise scenario involved a simulated transportation accident involving a truck  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: CEDAR City, Utah--The Bureau of Land Management Color Country District is set to burn slash piles from previous hand thinning projects, weather and staffing permitting. The prescribed burns will take place at three sites: near the Cedar Highlands Subdivision, southeast of Cedar City, near Quichapa Lake, west of Cedar City, south of Highway 56; and by the Beaver River, south of  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2023: A Nevada resident pleaded guilty today to the distribution of fentanyl via the U.S. Mail, which resulted in serious bodily injury after the fentanyl nearly killed a Park City, Utah resident. According to court documents, and admissions made during his change of plea hearing, Colin Andrew Shapard, 22, of Las Vegas, Nevada, mailed a package containing numero  more