Editor's note: The Standard-Examiner has invited primary candidates from Weber and Davis counties to sit down to answer questions from the editorial board and share their vision. Over the next month, the Standard-Examiner will share the highlights from these conversations, giving candidates ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories following a Standard-Examiner editorial board interview with Weber County Clerk/Auditor Ricky Hatch. This interview touched on topics such as a a lawsuit to remove a Weber County Commission candidate from the ballot, the 2026 primary ...

SOUTH OGDEN – For roughly the last five years, there’s been a pickleball court with a basketball hoop and a pergola behind some houses in the Fox Chase neighborhood. It was constructed on city property without a permit, and now, the city has decided to restore the land. According to a ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Tuesday announced his appointments for two new justices on the Utah Supreme Court after the Legislature expanded it from five to seven seats earlier this year. Cox picked Jay Jorgensen, who currently works as a senior attorney for the state’s predominant faith, The ...

Amid ongoing outcry over a massive, 40,000-acre data center campus being planned in northern Utah, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams announced that he’s calling for the project to be scaled back dramatically. “I’ve sent a letter directly to Kevin O’Leary calling for a 75% reduction in ...

Lorene Kamalu’s reason for wanting to run for reelection to the Davis County Commission this year boils down to a feeling. She had been thinking of whether she wanted to run for a third term as early as the middle of 2024. Commissioner Bob Stevenson made the decision to not run for a ...