OGDEN — More than 1,000 Ogden Internal Revenue Service workers are being called back to work per agency efforts to prepare for tax-filing season as the federal government shutdown continues.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The partial government shutdown threw a prime Washington ritual into question Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to forgo his Jan. 29 State of the Union speech, expressing doubts that the hobbled government can provide adequate security. Re…
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A recent audit says the state is illegally sharing personal data from drivers' licenses.
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LAYTON — Scott Freitag, nearing the end of his third term as a Layton City Council member, has been picked to serve as mayor of the city.
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SOUTH OGDEN — South Ogden City and a substance abuse treatment center are jousting in federal court over the legality of the city's refusal to allow the site to expand to 32 beds.
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OGDEN — With all the heated talk about adding to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, about illegal immigration, the immigrant community in the Ogden area is nervous.
Gavels will strike the sound blocks to commence the new Utah legislative session on Jan. 28 this year. As prescribed by law, the session begins on the fourth Monday and must conclude 45 days later — this year on March 14. Traditionally, during that period more than 1,000 new policies or chan…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vowing "I will not be bullied," President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation shado…
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OGDEN — More Ogden-area Internal Revenue Service workers will be back on the job this week per the agency's contingency plan for the looming tax-filing season.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down the next deadline to pay federal workers, the White House shifted tactics Tuesday, trying to bypass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to negotiate with rank-and-file lawmakers even as President Donald Trump dug in for a prolonged shutdown.
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DALLAS (AP) — Delta Air Lines expects to lose $25 million in revenue this month from the partial government shutdown that is also creating checkpoint delays and long lines at the airline's Atlanta hub.
ROY — After months of debate and consideration, a new group meant to foster business growth in Roy is finally taking shape.
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OGDEN — Ushered out of the Union Station shops, volunteers who have been restoring an 1881 locomotive are taking a philosophical view amid a batch of legal uncertainties.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat Monday, declaring he would "never ever back down."
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ATLANTA (AP) — Air travelers endured waits of more than an hour to get through domestic checkpoints at the world's busiest airport in Atlanta on Monday, the first business day after security screeners missed paychecks for the first time due to partial government shutdown.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t the weekend that President Donald Trump wanted: largely alone at the White House, irked by a pair of startling Russia headlines and baffled that he’s not getting more credit for staying put during the partial government shutdown.
NORTH SALT LAKE — A grassroots activist group has formed in North Salt Lake, determined to keep the Legacy Parkway mild and slow-paced.
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OGDEN — While hard data will not be available for months, dwindling lunch crowds and an unsettling abundance of open parking stalls signal that downtown businesses in Ogden could pay a heavy toll for the federal government’s extended shutdown.
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OGDEN — For now, two vacant tiny homes sit behind Emily Beeli’s home in Ogden’s older core.
Six local government workers who have been furloughed due to the federal government shutdown talked about how it has impacted their personal lives at a rally outside the James V.Hansen Federal Building in downtown Ogden on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2019.
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OGDEN — Weber County has a new sheriff in town.
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OGDEN — A city run housing assistance program traditionally aimed at stabilizing home ownership levels in east-central and west Ogden may soon be expanded to all areas of the city.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The partial government shutdown was on track Friday to become the longest closure in U.S. history as President Donald Trump and nervous Republicans scrambled to find a way out of the mess. A solution couldn’t come soon enough for federal workers who got pay statements Frida…
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Federal employees received pay stubs with nothing but zeros on them Friday as the effects of the government shutdown hit home, deepening anxieties about mortgage payments and unpaid bills.
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OGDEN — Skyler Coles hasn’t typically sought handouts to make ends meet.
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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was mounting to find an escape hatch from the thre…
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OGDEN — With no end to the government shutdown in sight, furloughed Internal Revenue Service employees from Ogden and their backers gathered Thursday with a message for lawmakers — end the stoppage so they can get back to work.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday that he thinks President Donald Trump has no conscience and said he’d like to see Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney challenge Trump in 2020 for the GOP nomination for president.
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NORTH OGDEN — Driving along the North Ogden Divide on Wednesday, Erica Kennebeck momentarily took pause.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker is proposing changes to a full Medicaid expansion passed by voters in November.
OGDEN — A decision on a disputed development proposed for a decades-long vacant corner of north Wall Avenue has been put on hold.
SALT LAKE CITY — A North Ogden man has been sentenced to two years of probation and fined $2,000 after a rigged Forest Service surplus vehicle auction.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump stalked out of his negotiating meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday — “I said bye-bye,” he tweeted soon after — as efforts to end the 19-day partial government shutdown fell into deeper disarray over his demand for billions of dollars to build…
OGDEN — A food manufacturing company that develops oat-based drinks and foods is getting a state tax break to open up shop in Ogden, bringing with it 50 new jobs.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is directing dozens of wildlife refuges to return staffers to work to make sure hunters and others have access despite the government shutdown, according to an email obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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EDEN — Two Weber County-area ski operations are partnering, aiming to give skiers and snowboarders more options in experiencing the state's rugged terrain and snow.
OGDEN — The Ogden City Council approved a salary range increase Tuesday night for the city's airport manager position, paving the way for a new hire to start later this month.
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NORTH OGDEN — Brent Chugg will stay on as North Ogden mayor, at least through the rest of 2019.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a somber televised plea, President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall Tuesday night, blaming illegal immigration for the scourge of drugs and violence in the U.S. and framing the debate over the partial government shutdown in…
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FARMINGTON — Nine months after auditors flagged alleged widespread misuse of funds in the Davis County sheriff’s business office, no criminal charges have been filed and a key manager remains on the payroll.
OGDEN — With no immediate end to the federal government shutdown in sight, Internal Revenue Service workers plan to rally in downtown Ogden to push for a resolution to the funding impasse behind the stoppage.
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OGDEN — There’s new leadership on the Weber County Commission and in the Weber County Sheriff’s Office.
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OGDEN — A proposal to bring a new nightclub to the outer edge of Ogden is making its way through city channels.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With the government shutdown in its third week and concern mounting over a possible delay in tax refunds, a Trump administration official said Monday that taxpayers who are owed money will be paid on time.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert pitched his plan of adding new sales taxes while cutting the overall rate to a taxpayers’ group on Monday, foreshadowing an issue that could be contentious during the upcoming legislative session.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With no breakthrough in sight, President Donald Trump will argue his case to the nation Tuesday night that a “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border requires the long and invulnerable wall he’s demanding before ending the partial government shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of fed…
Utah County’s canyons and forests are among the areas affected by the weeks-long partial federal government shutdown.
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OGDEN — After an extended search, Ogden City has named a new manager of the Ogden-Hinckley Airport.
NORTH OGDEN — The leader to guide North Ogden through 2019 — as the city wrestles with the future of its new amphitheater and the possible expansion of the Nordic Valley ski resort — could be picked next Tuesday.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The sesquicentennial of the driving of the Golden Spike is still more than four months out, but folks from the Utah State University library are getting a jumpstart on the momentous anniversary.
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Nonprofits, businesses and state governments nationwide are putting up money and volunteer hours in a battle to keep national parks safe and clean for visitors as the partial U.S. government shutdown lingers.
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