WEST HAVEN — A Rocky Mountain Junior High School teacher is a finalist in a contest focused on rewarding educators. As of Thursday, Jaron Sever, who has taught wood shop at Rocky Mountain Junior High for two years, was among the top 10 finalists in Reader's Digest's America's Favorite ...
The summer after Muskan Walia graduated from Bountiful High School, she abruptly learned what it meant to have a refinery almost at her doorstep. Her mom, who liked to garden outside their home, developed a pervasive cough that led her to her doctor’s office. She was later diagnosed with a ...
OGDEN — Next week will be big for Union Station. May 3 will mark the Golden Spike Anniversary Whistle Stop Tour from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Hope Eggett, curator for the Museums at Union Station, told the Standard-Examiner that the event helps commemorate the May 10 anniversary of the driving of ...
OGDEN — Monday marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most notorious crimes in Utah's history. On April 22, 1974, what came to be known as the "Hi-Fi murders" occurred at the Hi-Fi Shop, then located on Washington Boulevard in Ogden. The crime, which began as a robbery of the ...
RIVERDALE — Weber County's already impressive array of farmers markets — headlined by Farmers Market Ogden on Historic 25th Street — will be even more robust this summer and fall with the addition of a new, weekly market. After having a successful trial run in October, the Riverdale ...
OGDEN — The YCC Family Crisis Center is in the midst of a busy spring. This week, the center is set to host its first ever "Let's Talk About It" Summit to raise awareness of sexual assault and how to talk about the subject. Meanwhile, construction is coming close to completion on the ...
OGDEN — Earth Day week is in full effect following the annual recognition of the conservation-minded holiday on Monday. To celebrate the occasion, Utah State University's Ogden Botanical Gardens, located at 1750 Monroe Blvd., will be holding its third annual Earth Day Birthday event this ...
Intermountain Health has a new Remote Operations Center that tracks and monitors energy use at 18 of its facilities in Utah and Idaho. The system uses billions of data points that keep track of energy use and spots inefficiencies in systems that work poorly. One example provided by the company ...
For decades, downwinders have criticized the Radiation Compensation Exposure Act, or RECA, for being too narrow. Designed to compensate people exposed to and sickened by nuclear weapons development, activists say RECA has glaring cracks — for starters, it only covered 10 counties in Utah ...
Currently there are more questions than answers about how many books will actually be banned statewide once a new bill passed by the 2024 Utah Legislature becomes law. The Utah State Board of Education is now working through how to implement HB29, which takes effect July 1 and expands upon ...
