Vernal News

Saturday night proved to be an unforgettable one for a couple of Utah candidates on the campaign trail.

Evelyn Johnson is either a battered wife who finally had enough and fatally shot the man who she said abused her, or she is a deliberate killer who gunned down her estranged husband after he filed for divorce.

ISU Service Insurance Agency in Roosevelt, Utah and ISU Rocky Mountain Insurance Services in Vernal, Utah have joined the ISU network of independent insurance agencies.A The agencies remain under the leadership of Principals Craig and Brian Timothy, specializing in oil-related business Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada.

Officers secure the residence of Lyle Shane Karren after a Jan. 31. drug raid in which a pit bull was shot.

The Wilson family welcomed their newest member; baby Levi Wilson, born on Feb. 1 at 4 a.m., in the front seat of the car on their way to Ashley Regional Medical Center.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Russ Schnell, a Deputy Director with the NOAA, demonstrated a balloon used to check air quality as government agencies and and industry announced the Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study Tuesday, February 7, 2012 in Vernal, Utah.

As a resident of Vernal and Air Village Hills, I would like to make a comment on the article "Neighbors oppose rezoning." The Outlaw Country Development is proposing 360 high density apartments right behind Casa Rios Restaurant, plus additional 350 homes.

VERNAL, Utah - The Uintah County attorney announced that no charges will be filed in connection with a pepper spray incident at a high school football game in October.

The kick-off of the 2012 Utah Legislative session will undoubtedly remain memorable for Sen.

Joline Wondergem, a certified Raw foods educator out of Salt Lake City, gave a raw foods seminar Jan.

Late on the evening of Sept. 22, 2011 Aaron and Elizabeth Jensen joyfully dialed cell phones from the hospital in Logan.

In the war of words over the plan to round up thousands of wild horses on federal lands, it's the images that speak loudest.

An eastern Utah oil drilling rig worker was seriously injured when his hand was caught in machinery at an XTO Energy well site about 60 miles south of Vernal.

A Roosevelt man has serious injuries after his hand was caught between moving pipes at an eastern Utah drilling rig.

The Spot Entertainment Club is bringing a new music talent competition to Vernal, giving people the chance to audition Saturday, with any genre of music, to enter into the Vernal's Got Talent competition.

Officers from the Unified Police Department of Salt lake City took a wanted fugitive into custody after tracking him to the Uintah Basin.

Power was knocked out for two hours on Friday for 1,942 Rocky Mountain Power customers in Vernal and Naples after a car ran into non-energized anchor wires for the utility, which then hit energized wires.

Rocky Mountain Power confirms they are responding to calls of power outages in the Vernal area.

The typical male worker in the Buffalo area earned 45 percent more than the comparable local female employee, according to a report released Friday by On Numbers .

Open land for the area proposed Outlaw Country Development is on the left side of US Highway 40 below the crest of the hill where the Air Village Hills subdivision is located.