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SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, visiting Salt Lake City on Wednesday, doesn't buy into the idea that leaving forests alone is the best way to protect them.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said Wednesday he has no plans for additional changes to national monuments that were recommended by his predecessor, but that it's ultimately up to President Donald Trump.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reforming Utah's tax system could include ending the income tax, broadening the tax base or other options, state lawmakers said.
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NORTH OGDEN — Plans to dramatically overhaul the look of Washington Boulevard in North Ogden — pushing buildings closer to the road, making it more of a draw to pedestrians — now rest on shaky ground.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Several hundred people gathered in the Utah state Capitol Tuesday afternoon to join a nationwide protest against abortion bans being passed around the country.
PLEASANT VIEW — New leadership will be heading the Weber County Republican Party.
LAYTON — With construction pending, the state's transportation department will provide the public with new details on a large-scale project to rebuild U.S. Highway through northern Davis County into Weber County.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Democrat said Sunday that Republican Rep. Justin Amash's sharp criticism of what he called President Donald Trump's "impeachable conduct" in the Russia investigation isn't enough to count as bipartisan support to launch impeachment proceedings.
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HUNTSVILLE — Living in the Ogden Valley, with its picturesque views, recreational opportunities and unspoiled open spaces, has its benefits, particularly for those who love the outdoors.
OGDEN — With local election season slowly creeping in, Ogden’s race for mayor is now officially a three-person contest.
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OGDEN — A little bit of Hollywood could be coming to Weber County.
OGDEN — Weber County officials are creating a new high-level post, reshaping the approach to fighting intergenerational poverty, a standing priority.
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OGDEN — Weber County is a leader in an area where most officials probably want to lag far, far behind.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Starting Tuesday, people convicted of hate crimes can be subject to harsher punishment, 15-year-olds can no longer be married and the state’s “stand your ground” law will get stronger.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s lieutenant governor said Tuesday he will seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2020, a widely anticipated announcement that positions him as an early front runner.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans are hunting district-by-district for just the right candidates — women and minorities in many cases — to help them recapture the House six months after a political tidal wave swept Democrats into control of the most diverse majority in history.
ROY — The city of Roy will foot the bill to demolish a vacant structure that used to house a Chinese restaurant at the Marketplace Plaza at the busy Riverdale Road-1900 West intersection.
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OGDEN — The anniversary of the “Wedding of the Rails” wasn’t the only instance of two groups coming together in Ogden this week.
OGDEN — A Russian is jailed in Weber County, charged with smuggling F-16 fighter manuals to Moscow and trying to obtain guides for other front-line Air Force jets.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson says Utah residents are at risk of being undercounted in the census next year unless efforts are made to reach out to groups that could be hard to count.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After U.S.-China trade talks broke off, President Donald Trump said that “conversations into the future will continue” but that new tariffs the U.S. imposed Friday on $200 billion in Chinese imports would remain despite Beijing’s vow to retaliate.
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PROMONTORY — On May 10, exactly 150 years ago Friday, one of the most consequential events in the history of the United States and perhaps the world, took place before a relatively small group of government officials, railroad executives and laborers.
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday in a case that spotlights a streak of six deaths in the Davis County Jail in 2016 and subsequent state efforts to scrutinize Utah’s local jails.
ROY — Roy City Councilman David Tafoya figured something had to be done.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — When it comes to federal military spending across the country, Utah — a state with one of the largest Air Force installations in the U.S. — ranks mostly near the middle of the pack.
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PROMONTORY SUMMIT — As a boy many years ago, Doug Foxley recalls many springtime visits with his family to the dusty, remote area where the spike completing the transcontinental railroad was pounded into the ground in 1869.
Two years ago, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 substantially overhauled the Internal Revenue Code. Previous reform of this magnitude last occurred with the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The circumstances surrounding the enactment of these two pieces of legislation present a case study for contra…
OGDEN — Union Station and the surrounding railyards area may be reborn as the epicenter of economic and transportation vibrancy in the Ogden region, according to business, community and technology planners.
OGDEN — It’s not 2020, when Americans pick a president to lead the country for the next four-year term.
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From one side of the Peplin Cut — a canyon-like pass that railroad workers carved through a raised area west of the northern tip of the Great Salt Lake — you can see the valley below, made up of a former lake bed that reaches out to meet the lake’s current edge.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — They're talking at the Capitol about jailing people. Imposing steep fines. All sorts of extraordinary, if long-shot measures to force the White House to comply with Democratic lawmakers' request for information about President Donald Trump stemming from the special counsel'…
FARMINGTON — There’s now a hotline for reporting fraud and ethics complaints to Davis County government.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Brent Taylor did not only make his mark serving the Utah Army National Guard and as mayor of North Ogden.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from marijuana advocates who claim the state conspired with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to make sweeping changes to a voter-approved ballot initiative legalizing medical pot.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday about nuclear weapons, the possibility of getting China into a three-party arms control pact and the ongoing crisis in Venezuela where Moscow is propping up the current government over the U.S.-bac…
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force now says Hill Air Force Base’s risk for climate-related peril is not as dire as an earlier Department of Defense report may have made it seem.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — At least one lawmaker thinks people should have beer with their karaoke — even in conservative Utah.
FARR WEST — A $6.2 million project to fix an infamous Weber County bottleneck will begin later this month.
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HUNTSVILLE — With all the growth around Huntsville and Pineview Reservoir, with all the hiking, biking, boating and other recreational activity, it's only a matter of time, says Huntsville Mayor Jim Truett.
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OGDEN — A pair of giant critters will be lumbering to Ogden — a Utahraptor and a Tanystropheus.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah State Auditor’s Office report highlighted shortcomings in how many police departments store and manage their evidence.
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OGDEN — Emergency crews and water managers are closely watching the swollen Ogden River, which was surging at just below flood stage Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at the special counsel’s “snitty” complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigat…
The Weber County Commission holds its first meeting in Huntsville on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at the Ogden Valley Library in Huntsville.
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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.
A federal court will hear arguments dissecting the legal definitions of automatic weapons and determining whether an Orem inventor’s imprisonment for manufacturing machine guns should stand.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is proposing charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the U.S.
OGDEN — Just because it's an off election year doesn't mean members of the Weber County Democratic Party will be taking a rest.
OGDEN — The arguments in the legal fight over release of the police probe into Kerry Gibson’s tenure as a Weber County commissioner are emerging more clearly.
OGDEN — Weber County‘s new outdoor archery range has opened for its second season.
