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Brent and Jennie Taylor’s story began at Brigham Young University. As undergraduates, their roommates set them up, pitching to Jennie that Brent was the male version of her.
LAYTON — Weber State broke ground for a new computer and automotive engineering building on the Davis campus Wednesday.
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“This is do or die time,” said a girl sitting in the back of Shelley Angerhofer’s Spanish I class, focusing on a small, square white board that was sitting in front of her on her desk. She held a marker in her hand, ready to write.
Ogden High School held its commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at the Dee Events Center in Ogden.
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The 2019 senior class at Roy High School graduates Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at the Dee Events Center at Weber State University.
Ben Lomond held its 2019 commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at the Dee Events Center in Ogden.
I visited NASA in New York City last week. I know folks don’t associate NASA with the bustle of Manhattan, usually thinking of Texas or Florida or possibly the Moon, but the Goddard Institute of Space Science (GISS) is there, right next to that diner from Seinfeld.
The 2019 Weber High School senior class graduates Tuesday May 21, 2019, at the Dee Events Center at Weber State University.
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Teachers in Ogden School District will be getting a 5.7% pay increase starting in the 2019-2020 school year.
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“I started my addiction when I was three,” said Josh Holmes, who graduated from Fremont High School Monday.
KAYSVILLE — Students from Davis Technical College took first, second and third place at the state competition of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) on April 24, where they were challenged to build carbon fiber bridges that are strong enough to bear 15…
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OGDEN – More than 30 young people from the Ben Lomond community gave the Ogden School Board a standing ovation at the board's meeting Thursday night.
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Layton Christian Academy held its commencement for the Graduating Class of 2019 on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, at Layton Christian Academy.
OGDEN — Ogden School District and Gramercy Elementary will hold a legacy celebration to commemorate the school before its closing at the end of this school year.
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Thousands of Northern Utah high school students will be graduating over the next few weeks. Wondering when your local ceremony is? We’ve got you covered.
Some years ago, as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in the Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, my Indian government counterpart, Narpat, and I took a bus to a conference. It was a long, tiring ride, and the temperature was at least 120 F. All the windows were open wide. …
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — If you’re teaching STEM students about flight, doing it within the walls of an actual airplane seems like the ideal setting.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University promised Tuesday to be more transparent in how it enforces its honor code, though some who protested their treatment at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-owned institution wonder if the changes go far enough.
Teachers in Davis School District will receive an 8.33% increase in their total compensation for the 2019–2020 school year, according to a press release from the school district.
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Davis School District hosted 15 guests from Microsoft Thursday. Accompanied by district staff, the guests visited classrooms at Farmington High, Centennial Junior High and Kay’s Creek Elementary to see how the district uses technology in the classroom.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The actions of students who died tackling gunmen at two U.S. campuses a week apart have been hailed as heroic. At a growing number of schools around the country, they also reflect guidance to students, at least in some situations, to do what they can to disrupt shootings.
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SYRACUSE – Two school leaders from Jiefang Road Primary School, an elementary school of 5,000 students in Changchun, China, visited Syracuse Elementary School Monday to learn more about how U.S. schools are run.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mother sued Utah school administrators Tuesday, alleging that a school bus driver trapped her son in the door and drove away in a racially motivated incident.
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It’s amazing what a difference a lunch with someone friendly can make for a college freshman.
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The Huntsman family plans to donate $12 million toward new professorships at Utah State University's business school.
In May, Silicon Valley will host the Augmented World Expo (AWE). There, entrepreneurs will showcase devices — from headsets to holosuits — that promise to produce awe by creating virtual and augmented reality. Yet the awe these devices produce differs from the awe earlier generations of Amer…
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SYRACUSE — A $4.5 million project to remodel and expand Davis County’s library branch in Syracuse is expected to be completed before October.
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MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE — If you passed by Venture Academy High School toward the end of March, you would have seen a group of about 40 teenagers in an empty lot in the front of the school digging in the dirt — some building tiny mountains covered with flour “snow,” others working on a large bridge.
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DRAPER — Brianne Land Altice, a former teacher at Davis High School convicted of sexually abusing students, will be granted parole later this year, according to the Utah Board of Pardons.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A gay student who came out during a valedictorian speech at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University has earned applause and admiration from fellow students and notable figures like actress Kristin Chenoweth and the husband of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
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Students at Jennie P. Stewart Elementary School in Centerville had a virtual assembly with students from Vae View Elementary in Layton Friday morning.
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OGDEN — Weber State football rose to new heights in 2008 with a first-round playoff victory at Cal Poly, the first postseason win in program history.
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The Weber State University class of 2019 graduates on Friday, April 26, 2019, at the Dee Event Center on campus.
Brigham Young University’s most visible landmark came about due to hard work, a class rivalry — and failure.
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In August 2017, a presenter at a résumé workshop told Naheed Davis he wouldn’t hire her.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Drones ferrying medical supplies, packages and even pizza could one day be crisscrossing the skies above U.S. cities, and a team at the University of Utah is working with regulators to keep that future traffic in check using a video game.
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OGDEN – Breaking records has become a tradition for Weber State graduations, one that will continue at the university’s 153rd commencement Friday.
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OGDEN — Parents and students waved signs at traffic on 12th Street Monday, calling for IFA Country Store to share access to a nearby intersection with students and staff at Weber Innovation and Two Rivers high schools.
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Students at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind celebrated spring with the Spring Sensory Carnival on Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Ogden. The carnival included a sensory egg hunt, gardening, making paper flowers and other spring themed activities. The activities were to help teach th…
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OGDEN — That he'll soon officially be a Weber State University graduate, says Jose Chacon, is "groundbreaking."
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OGDEN — Parents are preparing to protest a cement barrier placed between the parking lots of Weber Innovation High School and the IFA Country Store on 12th Street.
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OGDEN — Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox spoke about suicide prevention to 500 secondary students — grades 7–12— at DaVinci Academy Tuesday, ending the speech with a performance with the school’s teacher band.
By now you have probably heard about the astounding observations of the black hole at the center of the galaxy designated M87 and christened Powehi, a Hawaiian phrase referring to an “embellished dark source of unending creation.” This monster of an object, six billion times as massive as ou…
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KAYSVILLE — Davis Technical College broke ground Thursday for the college’s new Michael J. Bouwhuis Allied Health Building, named for a retired president of the college. The campus is located at
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CLEARFIELD — The Clearfield High School baseball team is practicing on their field again, much sooner than many school and health department officials originally thought.
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Some students at Weber State are unhappy with the response to stickers and posters representing a white supremacy group appearing around the Ogden campus, including a statement released by President Brad Mortensen Wednesday, a week and a half after the stickers first appeared.
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SOUTH OGDEN — Burch Creek Elementary recently opened a new after school program, after the Weber School District Foundation and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Weber-Davis secured a federal grant through the 21st Century Community Learning Center initiative.
Parents looking for a way to keep their little ones busy can bring them to “Spring into School Readiness,” an event for children under the age of 5 and their parents Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Newgate Mall near the Burlington store.
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OGDEN — Ogden’s annual “Take Back the Night” rally will spotlight domestic and relationship violence Friday at Ogden’s Union Station.
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SOUTH OGDEN — After more than two years of debate, talking and meeting, officials in South Ogden and Riverdale appear close to joining forces in providing fire protection in the two cities.
OGDEN — Rock hounds rejoice! The 68th Annual Gemstone Junction show is being held this weekend at the Golden Spike Event Center.
