BLM Releases Plan that finally protects Labyrinth Canyon

After years of prioritizing off-road vehicles, a recent decision from the Bureau of Land Management brings balance to this special place. Travel plans are an opportunity to develop reasonable, balanced, and forward-thinking blueprints that ensure public access while preserving the backcountry and minimizing damage. Learn more at suwa.org

Utah Headlines

Political news

• Sen. Mike Lee threatens to pull funding to United Nations over Hamas vote (KSL)

Election news

• Utah lawmaker, who served jail time for trespassing on federal land, running for governor (Fox13)
• St. George candidates divided over cultural wars and solutions to problems (Salt Lake Tribune)

Halloween

• Ghostly Whispers: Unearthing Camp Floyd's eerie past (Fox13)
• Bountiful couple turns backyard into haunted forest (Fox13)
• Legends and myths of Great Salt Lake may keep you up at night (Fox13)
• 3 of Utah’s ghost towns leave their marks on the land and in memories (ABC4)
• Is there any truth behind these 3 Idaho legends? (KSL)
• Fact or Fiction? Exploring the haunts and history of Sugar House Park (KSL TV)
• Utah’s Most Haunted: Spooky stories from the state’s oldest restaurant (ABC4)
• Cornbelly’s has been voted No. 3 corn maze in the U.S. (Deseret News)
• Utahns making last-minute preparations for Halloween (Fox13)
• Is Ogden’s historic Browning Mansion home to more than just the living? (KSL TV)
• An ode to masked strangers (Deseret News)
• What an actual house of horrors looks like. The scariest haunted house might be closer than you think. Have you checked your refrigerator lately? (Deseret News)
• Halloween: How old is too old to trick-or-treat? (Deseret News)
• ‘Be safe, be seen’: Utah Department of Public Safety shares how to keep kids safe this Halloween (ABC4)
• Utah safety experts urge parents to map out safest trick-or-treating route for Halloween (KUTV)
• Halloween is the second busiest night of the year for police (KSL Newsradio)
• Map: Your 2023 guide to Halloween decorations, haunted houses and pumpkin patches in Utah 👻 (KSL)
• Teal Pumpkins to help Utah kids trick-or-treat safely (KSL TV)
• Are your kids going trick-or-treating this year? Here’s how to make sure they stay safe (Deseret News)
• As vampires and superheroes take to the streets, parents and kids need this conversation (Deseret News)
• We're spending $700 million on pet costumes in the costliest Halloween ever (NPR)

Business/Tech

• Is remote work here to stay? (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Biden issues sweeping order aiming to safeguard AI advancements (Deseret News)

Education

• Utah school district part of social media lawsuit (Fox13)
• Weber State’s 3D printer catching the attention of companies and students (KSL TV)

Environment

• How a new power line will connect Utah and Nevada to expand clean-energy potential (Salt Lake Tribune)
• Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition (AP)
• Off-road groups file legal challenge after BLM closes 300 miles of routes near Moab (Deseret News)

Family

• What legal rights and responsibilities do Utah parents have to their adult children? (KSL Newsradio)
• Blake Shelton praises wife Gwen Stefani for being ‘a mother first and foremost’: ‘That’s rare in this business’ (Deseret News)

Health

• Researchers have identified a 'switch' that can trigger the death of a cancer cell (KSL)
• 6 ways to reduce brain fog and improve mental clarity (Deseret News)
• A landmark gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease moves closer to reality (NPR)

Housing

• Utah's first-time homebuyer program is helping, but could it do more? (KUTV)
• Draper homeowners concerned about property stability as developers dig too close to home (KUTV)
• Idaho is the most ‘overvalued’ housing market in the U.S., says Moody’s Analytics. Here’s where Utah ranks (Deseret News)

National Headlines

General

• Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ cast mates mourn their friend, say they are ‘all so utterly devastated’ (AP)
• Southern California wildfire prompts evacuation order for thousands as Santa Ana winds fuel flames (AP)
• A key measure of U.S. wages grew at a moderate pace in the third quarter. (New York Times)
• Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest growing form of education (Washington Post)

Politics

• Could Congress form a select committee to investigate UFOs? These lawmakers hope so (Deseret News)
• The controversy over Mike Johnson’s Christian faith (Deseret News)
• He says he's a moderate Republican, and the party is on a 'slide to authoritarianism' (NPR)
• 5 things to know about the 14th Amendment effort to block Trump from the presidency (NPR)
• Johnson’s Israel proposal runs into stiff Senate opposition (The Hill)
• 5 things to know about Trump’s 14th Amendment disqualification trial in Colorado (The Hill)

Election news

• Biden disapproval at 56 percent in new poll (The Hill)

Ukraine 🇺🇦

• McConnell goes all out as Ukraine fight fractures GOP (Politico)

Israel 🇮🇱

• Israeli forces battle Hamas around Gaza City, as military says 800,000 have fled south (AP)
• Israeli forces move farther into Gaza as the push against Hamas enters a 5th day (NPR)
• Israel hits Hamas tunnels as ground offensive intensifies (Wall Street Journal)

World

• Who is Shani Louk? New evidence suggests that the German-Israeli concertgoer was killed by Hamas (Deseret News)
• By an eerie lake in Romania, Draculas and skeletons welcome crowds to Halloween fest (AP)
• Two hours of terror and now years of devastation for Acapulco’s poor in Hurricane Otis aftermath (AP)

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Upcoming

• Martha Hughes Cannon Award with Utah Women Run — Nov 2, 6:00-8:00 pm
• Interim Day — Nov 14-15, le.utah.gov
• Celebrating 30 years of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, with the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation — Nov 16, 10 am, MST, Register here
  
• General election — Nov. 21
  

On This Day In History 

• 1517 - Reformation Day - Martin Luther posts 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany
• 1838 - A mob of about 200 attacks a Mormon camp in Missouri, killing 20 men, women and children
• 1860 - Juliette Gordon Low is born. The American activist was the founder of the Girl Scouts of America.
• 1926 - Harry Houdini [Erich Weisz], magician, dies of gangrene and peritonitis from an appendix that ruptured after a student punched him twice hard in the stomach
• 1978 - The Pregnancy Discrimination Act becomes law which prohibits employers from discriminating against pregnant women
• 1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), is assassinated by two of her bodyguards at 66
• 2020 - Sir Sean Connery dies at age 90

Quote of the Day

"Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, 'Never take candy from strangers.' And then they dressed me up and said, 'Go beg for it.'"

—Rita Rudner

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