OGDEN — This summer, all of Weber State’s courses will be online or virtual, but unlike the spring semester, students will sign up for their courses expecting these formats — which could encourage or deter students from attending, potentially increasing or decreasing the university’s summer …
Weber and Davis County businesses can now apply for a grant to help them recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Ogden Newspapers Inc., the parent company of the Standard-Examiner, has established a $1 million fund to help local businesses get back to full strength by subsidizi…
Across the country, hospitals and health care organizations have seen shortages of ventilators, face masks and other personal protective equipment, also called PPE, as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic strains medical resources.
OGDEN — The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development has a new loan program to help small businesses, with a large chunk of the available money set aside for rural areas of the state.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — All but the most essential personnel at Hill Air Force Base are now being required to work from home, as the base continues efforts to battle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
OGDEN — A Weber County resident died of COVID-19 Sunday, the Weber-Morgan Health Department announced Tuesday afternoon. This is the first COVID-19 death in Weber County and the fifth in Utah.
DAVIS COUNTY — Davis County now has 80 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four cases that are suspected, for a total of 84 cases.
FARMINGTON — It's what fun ... was?
DAVIS COUNTY — To take out or not to take out? That is the question.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — After a COVID-19 scare over the weekend, Hill Air Force Base's child care facilities will all reopen Tuesday.
Northern Utah jail populations are falling and police are delivering fewer detainees for jailing, except violent offenders, as law enforcement responds to the coronavirus pandemic.
OGDEN — Ogden's First Friday Art Stroll will go on this week, in a fashion, despite ever expanding social distancing measures being implemented across the state.
After President Donald Trump signed a $2 trillion relief bill, the Internal Revenue Service is warning residents about potential schemes that could leave residents scammed out of the money sent to them.
OGDEN — An Ogden man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the shooting of a man at his home early Monday.
OGDEN — Ogden's Pioneer Stadium already has new seating on its north side, donated by the Utah Jazz and installed in 2018.
Come Monday, the window of opportunity to search for toilet paper at Costco will be two hours shorter each weekday — but three hours per week longer for seniors and people with disabilities.
Although they’ve used different methods, Northern Utah school districts and their associated education foundations are making additional efforts to support families in need during spring break, a time when schools haven’t traditionally provided services.
With the passage of House Bill 393 by Utah lawmakers, Lance Peterson is eager to move forward with debate on whether the broad unincorporated swath of western Weber County should be turned into a city.
OGDEN — William C. Coleman made bomber jackets for U.S. forces in World War II. Now the little company he later started in Ogden has become an important cog in today’s fight against the coronavirus.
OGDEN — There’s no doubt the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to impact economies everywhere.
SOUTH OGDEN — One man has been displaced after a house fire on Friday night.
SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Gary Herbert on Friday asked Utahns to stay home as much as possible, starting immediately. The voluntary, but highly encouraged directive will be in place through April 13.
Candidates for public office in Utah who intend to earn a spot on the primary ballot by gathering signatures will have an easier time doing so -- while still practicing social distancing -- after Gov. Gary Herbert suspended certain requirements in state statute related to signature-gathering.
SALT LAKE CITY — With a sharp dip in ridership due to coronavirus, the Utah Transit Authority will scale back bus and FrontRunner service in Weber and Davis counties as well as in the rest of the state.
TREMONTON — Traffic on Interstate 15 near Tremonton figures to be slow going beginning Monday, March 30.
Two skiers triggered and were caught in an avalanche Friday morning on the closed slopes of Snowbasin Resort but survived without injury, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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OGDEN — As the “soft closure” of Utah schools continues — currently scheduled to last through May 1 to prevent the spread of COVID-19 — school staff members are trying to stay connected to the students they no longer see every day.
OGDEN — In the wake of the March 18 earthquake that shook Utah, the aging parking garage abutting the Weber Center in downtown Ogden has been closed.
OGDEN — When it comes to the items that are permissible to flush down a toilet, Giles Demke, president of The Water Environment Association of Utah, doesn’t mince words.
LAYTON — In what might be considered equal parts optimism, stubbornness and hope, the Davis Arts Council has just announced its lineup for the 2020 Summer Nights With the Stars concert series.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — While large community events are being canceled all over the world on a daily basis amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Hill Air Force Base officials say there’s still enough time, and some hope, that the installation’s biennial air show could go on.
The trend continues: The population in Weber and Davis counties and much of the rest of Utah keeps growing as the debate rages over where to house everybody and how to keep the state’s infrastructure up to snuff.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Department of Defense has issued a 60-day “stop movement order” for all department personnel, uniformed and civilian — a move that will have significant repercussions at Hill Air Force Base.
OGDEN — An Ogden mother who defied a court order to turn over her two children to child welfare authorities has been arrested on two kidnapping charges.
OGDEN — Han Johnson, a sophomore from Ogden who was living in campus housing at Weber State University, learned from an email sent Monday that she would need to find new housing — if possible — within the next two days.
NORTH OGDEN — Attending public meetings will become a much more solitary undertaking in some locales.
The Utah Department of Workforce Services released the number of unemployment claims from March 15-21, showing a 1,391% increase in the number of unemployment claims since state officials prohibited dine-in restaurant operations and limited social gatherings to 10 people.
OGDEN — The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly created some stressful times, but a veteran social worker from Weber Human Services says the new and uncertain frontier doesn’t have to rule our minds.
OGDEN — After two consecutive cancelations of its regular weekly meetings, the Ogden City Council will be back in session next week — but in a form that hasn't ever been seen.
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday evening that all temple activity churchwide would be suspended at the end of the day to prevent further spread of COVD-19.
OGDEN — In what figures to be a year of rescheduling or even canceling major community events, a pretty big domino fell Wednesday — the Ogden Marathon has been postponed until September.
OGDEN — The Ogden City Council will likely consider a resolution that would urge the state of Utah to implement a 60-day moratorium on all evictions, as fallout continues amid the COVID-19 crisis.
OGDEN — The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is scaling back operations, the federal agency said in a statement Tuesday.
OGDEN — The preliminary results of an online survey of Weber County businesses are stark.
NORTH OGDEN — Those exhibiting coronavirus symptoms can get testing at a handful of locations in northern Utah — at clinics in North Ogden, Layton, Tremonton and Hyde Park, as well as McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said that the state and federal governments and private sector should work together to minimize an economic downturn in Utah caused by the coronavirus pandemic and called for a special legislative session.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man who died from the coronavirus had visited a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the week prior to his diagnosis, church officials said.
OGDEN — Turns out Nancy Blair, the sitting District 5 rep on the Ogden School Board, is running for the post again after all.
OGDEN — An Ogden teen has been charged as an adult in the March 14 shooting death of a friend.
FARMINGTON — A 60-year-old woman has been jailed for allegedly ramming her car head-on into an officer's vehicle after a shoplifting incident and police chase.
Workers at Coleman Knitting Mills, an Ogden company that usually manufactures cheerleading uniforms, lettermen’s jackets, and school sweaters, has shifted gears to make surgical masks and medical gowns to answer huge demands for the supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
