The full Northern Utah calendar of events is on L4, but here are three local events you should check out this week: 1. Box Elder County Fair Box Elder County Fairgrounds, Aug. 22-29, noon to 10 p.m. It's time for another fun county fair, this time up in Box Elder County. The fair website ...

Sheena Miles is easy to laugh these days. In fact, she can’t stop smiling. After years of fundraising, knocking on doors, posting signs, begging for money and writing grants, hundreds of kids in North Ogden city will have two new playgrounds at Green Acres Elementary, designed so every ...

This past July, as tradition would have it, I attended the Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo. Even at 100 degrees and bad seats, I still enjoy a good rodeo, and Ogden has never disappointed. There’s simply nothing quite like the smell of cow pies, barbecue and deep-fried Oreos mingling in the air ...

Here’s a question I ask folks who walk into my Bountiful office: Does your retirement come with a monthly pension check? For most people retiring today, the answer is no. The traditional pension, the guaranteed check your parents may have retired on that arrived every month until they died, ...

Back-to-school scams increase in August as families buy supplies, pay school fees and tuition and arrange financial aid. This year, those scams could be more convincing because they follow a major data breach involving Canvas, the learning management system used by schools and universities ...

When tomatoes are at their peak — and it’s too hot to turn on the oven — this simple, no-cook sauce from my cookbook “Pasta Every Day” is what I come back to time and again. It’s often called pomodoro crudo and served with very thin spaghetti, though you’ll find many variations, ...