Prosecutors in Utah are seeking the extradition of a man from California on murder charges in connection with a deadly shooting in January at a church parking lot in Salt Lake City that left two people dead, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Law enforcement took 32-year-old John Vea Uasike Jr. into custody on April … Read more
Wolves on a remote island in Lake Superior appear to be thriving, but they’re making deep dents in the moose population that they rely on as a leading food source, according to a report released Monday. Isle Royale is a 134,000-acre (54,200-hectare) national park in far western Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Minnesota and Thunder … Read more
President Donald Trump nominated a senior State Department official Thursday for the top post at the U.S. Agency for Global Media after a federal judge ruled that Kari Lake’s leadership violated federal law. Trump nominated Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, less than a week after U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered … Read more
Long-term drought played a role in the lake’s decline, but about 75% of the problem was human-caused, according to research published in 2022: People had simply been taking too much lake water for decades. State officials got serious about intervention in 2022. Lawmakers created a $40 million water trust to boost water quality and quantity. … Read more
Setting sail on iceboats across a frozen lake in Wisconsin – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News’ Noel Brennan hits a frozen lake in Wisconsin to go ice sailing. Source link
Robert Cosby Jr., the son of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Mary Cosby, has died in Utah, according to police. He was 23. Officers responded to a call for a possible overdose on Monday and found Robert Cosby Jr. had died, Salt Lake City Police said in a statement to NBC News. … Read more
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has found two of three ships that sank in the same Lake Superior storm more than a century ago, locating one in 2021 and the other in 2022. Source link
Two skiers died Friday in separate incidents at Lake Tahoe’s Heavenly Mountain Resort, marking the latest in a series of ski-related deaths this month in the region that stretches across Northern California and Nevada. This follows an avalanche earlier this week that claimed the lives of at least eight people. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office on … Read more