Willard News

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, on which Sen. Bob Bennett is the ranking Republican, endorsed an appropriations bill Wednesday providing $51.5 million for Utah energy and water projects through earmarks that Bennett requested.

Rocky Mountain Power has received the legal right to start construction of a high-voltage power line through Willard even as the city fights to stop the project.

Farmers who routinely pray for rain are cursing a recent torrent that has destroyed fruit crops in Utah.

Rocky Mountain Power said Monday it will go to court to try to force the town of Willard to allow it to build a high-voltage transmission line through the city despite concerns that electric and magnetic fields from the project could harm the health of nearby residents and damage property values.

A 41-year-old man died after his motorcycle collided with an SUV late Wednesday.

A toddler died after accidentally swallowing paint thinner. A medical examiner is trying to determine just how much paint thinner the child ingested.

" Rain and hail is giving Northern Utah farmers heartburn. In some places, sweet cherries have lost their luster.

Utah State Parks have a richness in ecological diversity that is unmatched. The rustic terrain has an unparalleled beauty that will help you fall in love with the state.

Salt Lake City - Cloanne Andrus Pesquera, Loving wife, compassionate sister, and doting Tia and forever friend passed away in Salt Lake City, UT at the University of Utah Hospital Burn Center due to complications of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome surrounded by hope, faith, and love of family in the early morning hours on May 30, 2009.

Residents in the Hot Springs trailer court didn't get much sleep early Saturday morning as police searched the area for an intoxicated man who had threatened to shoot them.

By Carlos Mayorga Standard-Examiner staff cmayorga@standard.net BRIGHAM CITY - A 34-year-old woman remains in critical condition after rolling her vehicle several times Sunday in Box Elder County.

It's a weather phenomenon not common in Utah, but officials at the National Weather Service say a tornado did hit the small town of Willard, Utah Sunday evening.

There was no one named Dorothy caught in the storm and no little dogs flying about but officials at the National Weather Service say there was a tornado that touched down here Sunday nonetheless.

A tornado touched down Sunday, May 3 in the city of Willard in Box Elder County uprooting trees and tearing off siding on homes.

I believe we saw a funnel cloud over Willard Bay's South Marina Sunday night at about 8 pm.

Standard-Examiner correspondent BRIGHAM CITY -- Parents packed a Box Elder School Board meeting to express frustration over the standards-based grading system that has been implemented in the intermediate school.

With most of the controversy over the route now behind it, Rocky Mountain Power has launched construction of its new high-voltage transmission line that will run from Downey in southeastern Idaho to an existing substation west of the Salt Lake City International Airport.

Getting "inspiration" should be a much smoother process soon in Box Elder County as $500,000 in government stimulus funds is going toward maintenance of the heavily eroded Willard Mountain road.

House built in 1872 was demolished after attempts to preserve it failed Judy Morris huddled under an umbrella watching through a light drizzle as a backhoe carved into her family's Tooele home this morning.

Brigham City came just to tell its side of the story, and walked away with armfuls of support from Box Elder County commissioners.