Top Stories
An array of restored military vehicles drive along SR-36 near the Tooele Army Depot Thursday morning during a historical military convoy commemorating the 1919 U.S. Army Transcontinental Motor Convoy. Forty historic vehicles made the 3,200-mile trek, which started in Washington, D.C., and will end in San Francisco.
- photography / Maegan Burr
- photography / Maegan Burr
1 hr 22 mins ago | 0 
| 2 
| 
| 2 |
Vehicle preservation group traces Lincoln Highway route used in 1919
Tooele Valley Mosquito Abatement District employee Dennis Workman spreads out a pesticide that deters mosquito larvae from growing in some standing water in Lake Point Monday afternoon. The abatement district is encouraging residents to survey their yards for standing water, which attracts mosquitoes.
- photography / Maegan Burr
- photography / Maegan Burr
2 days 1 hr ago | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |
A wet June has local mosquito abatement officials scrambling to prevent an outbreak of West Nile virus. In Utah, West Nile has already been confirmed in Box Elder, Salt Lake, Utah and Washington c...
Universal Field Services’ Clay Crocket (left) talks to Tooele residents Brady Bradshaw (second from right) and Matt Smith (far right) Tuesday night at a BLM open house for the proposed Mona-to-Oquirrh Transmission Corridor project. No route for the line as been determined or eliminated yet.
- photography / Maegan Burr
- photography / Maegan Burr
7 days ago | 1 | 13 |
| 13 |
Scores of people turned up Tuesday evening at a public open house hosted by the Bureau of Land Management regarding Rocky Mountain Power’s proposed Mona-to-Oquirrh Transmission Corridor Project. An...
9 days ago | 11 | 35 |
| 35 |
Tooele City just made history — but not in a way any city would boast about. Last Friday, a jury in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City decided Tooele was guilty of breaching agreements with Overl...
More Top Stories
Vicky McCoy works on ceramic projects Thursday morning at the Grantsville Senior Center. The center’s board president, Jerry Edwards, believes the county’s senior services staff has been mishandling the center’s finances.
- photography / Maegan Burr
- photography / Maegan Burr
1 hr 22 mins ago | 0 | 1 |
| 1 |
Board president alleges mismanagement as tensions with county staff rise
A forklift moves bails of garbage off of trucks Tuesday morning at the Tekoi Balefill on the Goshute Indian Reservation in Skull Valley. The landfill wants to change its lease agreement to allow for unbaled municipal solid waste.
- photography / Maegan Burr
- photography / Maegan Burr
2 days 1 hr ago | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |
A landfill in Skull Valley on the Goshute Indian Reservation wants to change the form of the waste it accepts in order to ensure its future viability. The Tekoi Balefill facility, which is owned a...
Tooele County Business Resource Center manager Glen Lowry talks about tools with which he can help county business owners at his office Wednesday afternoon in the Tooele County Building. Lowry hopes to use his business expertise to help start new businesses in Tooele and encourage smaller ones to grow.
- photography / Maegan Burr
- photography / Maegan Burr
7 days ago | 0 | 17 |
| 17 |
A native son with an impressive business background has been tapped to head up Tooele County’s new small business resource center, which opened it’s doors last week. Glen Lowry, 62, grew up in Too...
9 days ago | 0 | 16 |
| 16 |
Young people are finding summer jobs harder to come by in a down economy, partly because of increasing competition from adult job seekers. Deseret Peak Complex Director Mark McKendrick said the co...
14 days ago | 0 | 16 |
| 16 |
Linda Ekker retires after a quarter century at small Vernon Elementary
16 days ago | 3 | 29 |
| 29 |
The Utah Highway Patrol has located the driver of a white pickup that potentially caused a fatal accident on I-80 in Tooele County Saturday morning. According to Sgt. Jeff Nigbur of the Utah High...
23 days ago | 2 | 32 |
| 32 |
Grammy-winning producer and prominent Stockton resident Douglas Spotted Eagle was critically injured Monday afternoon after a botched skydiving landing at the Tooele Valley Airport. Spotted Eagle,...
28 days ago | 2 | 34 |
| 34 |
Either an out-of-town developer played “catch me if you can” with city officials, or a city reneged on its promise of water to serve an anti-growth agenda. That was the picture painted by attorney...
1 month ago | 0 | 25 |
| 25 |
A 50-year-old Salt Lake City man was killed Thursday afternoon after a 100,000-pound steel storage bin collapsed on top of him at the former site of the Marblehead lime plant near Delle. Ronald Sa...
1 month ago | 3 | 30 |
| 30 |
Reckless shooting is blighting some of the county’s best wild places and endangering recreationalists
community
« sjaspie1 wrote on Thursday, Jul 02 at 06:52 AM »
This comment is directed to look@menow. What a ...
« samwoodruff@msn.com wrote on Wednesday, Jul 01 at 10:24 AM »
« CandyWoodruff wrote on Wednesday, Jul 01 at 12:24 AM »
« myspacekd7mxija wrote on Tuesday, Jun 30 at 07:20 PM »
« Russellp wrote on Monday, Jun 29 at 04:28 PM »
report abuse...
Latest Sports
Current Editorial
Reader's Poll
Power Line
Jul 02 09 - 03:05 PM
Which eastern route through Tooele Valley would be best for Rocky Mountain's proposed Mona-to-Oquirrh transmission line?
Today's Events
National News
AP - The wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his affair with an Argentine woman "inexcusable" but said Thursday she is willing to forgive him.
Thu Jul 02 18:44:14 -0500 2009
AP - An attorney for veterans potentially exposed to HIV and other infections by colonoscopies at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals said his clients are waiting to hear if they will be compensated for mistakes that led to congressional hearings and new VA spending on patient safety.
Thu Jul 02 16:32:01 -0500 2009
AP - The number of U.S. swine flu cases has reached nearly 34,000, and deaths have risen 34 percent in the past week to 170, federal health officials reported Thursday.
Thu Jul 02 15:53:42 -0500 2009