HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A $45 million project to reconstruct Hill Air Force Base’s runway has been finished after nearly nine months of work.
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The remains of a solider reported missing in action during World War II will soon be returned to his family in Utah, thanks to DNA technology.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — In January, the Department of Defense is implementing a major expansion to a program that allows veterans to use commissaries, recreational facilities and other benefits at federal military installations.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A government watchdog is urging Congress to demand more accountability from the Department of Defense’s F-35 program.
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OGDEN — For George Ford, age truly is just a state of mind.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Pilots at Hill Air Force Base will start their recurrent local night flying schedule next week.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base’s Utah Test and Training Range occupies 1.8 million acres of desert land in western Utah and eastern Nevada.
OGDEN — Retired military veterans are getting a raise.
As Veterans Day approaches, a number of events, ceremonies and special deals are being offered to those who have served their country in the armed forces:
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base is one of four U.S. military installations that will test fifth generation cellular technology for applications in the defense sector.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A group of airmen from Hill Air Force Base returned home last week after a six-month deployment in the Middle East.
LAYTON — The 14th annual Northern Utah Veterans Day Parade will be held in Layton this year.
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NORTH OGDEN — On a brisk Saturday morning, many in northern Weber County saw streaks of red, white and blue fall from the sky.
EDEN — When Brent Taylor was shot and killed while serving in Afghanistan, he wasn’t the only casualty.
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ROY — Major traffic growth is on the horizon in Roy and city officials there are hoping the transportation department will quickly fund a project that will address it.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A U.S. defense agency has identified and recovered the body of a Utah Marine about 76 years after he was killed in battle during World War II.
DRAPER — The head of Utah’s National Guard is set to retire early next month.
LAYTON — The sculptor who will create the War Dog Memorial Statue in Layton is a Russian immigrant with dozens of monuments to her credit around the world, including the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial at the state Capitol.
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LAYTON — Recognition finally came for the Americans who fought in an unpopular war, with construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and again just last year with a smaller version in Layton.
SANDY — A large conference will be held next week for Utah veterans looking for employment and benefits.
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OGDEN — The Ogden City Council has approved an agreement that clears the way for demolition of the century-old Swift Building and construction of an aerospace manufacturing operation.
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OGDEN — A potential alternative has emerged to plans to tear down the historic but badly deteriorated Swift building, currently the site of a major environmental cleanup.
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OGDEN — Ogden City has reached a deal to sell the Swift property to a California company that plans to build an aerospace manufacturing operation on the reclaimed hazardous waste site next to the Weber River.
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NORTH OGDEN — What started as an outpouring of support last year after the death of Brent Taylor in Afghanistan is morphing into what backers hope becomes an annual event centered on Veterans Day.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Three new fire trucks have been added to help Hill Air Force Base crews respond to emergencies in and around the base.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A bipartisan group of United States senators, including Utah Republicans Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, have formally urged the defense department to avoid potential delays in a missile replacement program headquartered at Hill Air Force Base.
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NORTH OGDEN — When a soldier dies in the service of the country, he or she is said to have made the ultimate sacrifice.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The director of Hill Air Force Base's ever-changing military testing and training ground will speak to the public Saturday.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force wants to start flying drones at the Utah Test and Training Range.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — After wrapping up an exercise last week that involved a major uptick in flying operations, F-35 pilots at Hill Air Force Base are set to begin another round of night flying.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The team in charge of showing off the F-35 Lightning II is moving to Hill Air Force Base.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For at least the second time in their four-year history at Hill Air Force Base, F-35s from the 388th and 419th fighter wings have conducted combat strikes on enemy forces.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — You might notice more planes in the sky this week around Hill Fir Force Base.
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OGDEN — A tank commander from Ogden who led the first American capture of a German town during World War II is being memorialized on the 75th anniversary of the feat.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some $54 million in funding to two Hill Air Force Base projects will be diverted to aid in the construction of the wall between the United States and Mexico, per the call by President Donald Trump for beefed-up border security.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — After three years of work, the story of a famed World War II bomber is ready to be told at the Hill Aerospace Museum.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — This year, the Hill Aerospace Museum’s “Open Aircraft Day” will feature real-life fighter pilots and members of their crew.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Officials say a new Northrop Grumman facility being built at Hill Air Force Base will bring 2,500 new jobs to Northern Utah.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base is in the midst of a multimillion dollar energy conservation project that has already made hundreds of buildings more efficient.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Pilots at Hill Air Force Base will conduct local night flying operations next week.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For nearly a decade, maintenance personnel at Hill Air Force Base have been replacing the wings on a big chunk of the Air Force’s aging fleet of A-10 aircraft.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — After a summer of transition, Hill Air Force Base’s two F-35 fighter wings are set to resume normal flying operations.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — After espionage charges against him were dropped by U.S. prosecutors in 2017, a military contractor has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the government and two Hill Air Force Base civilian officials.
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OGDEN — It started with honoring the bravery of soldiers and cancer patients.
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OGDEN — U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott Robbins’ infant son — also named Elliott — sat in the pews at St. James the Just Catholic Church with family, squirming.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A federal hiring regulation that requires active-duty military retirees to wait at least 180 days before they can begin a Department of Defense civilian job may soon be a thing of the past.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Ogden Air Logistics Complex — Hill Air Force Base’s massive military maintenance and repair hub — is set to get a new leader later this week.
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OGDEN — The Weber County man who died late last month in Afghanistan while serving in the U.S. Army is to be buried Thursday.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Detonation season will start soon for Hill Air Force Base.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho — The F-35s at Hill Air Force Base represent the newest technology the Department of Defense can employ.
A fundraiser was held for the Major Brent Taylor Leadership Legacy Foundation at North Ogden Park in North Ogden on Saturday, July 6, 2019. Taylor died while serving for the Utah Army National Guard in Afghanistan on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. His widow, Jennie Taylor, wanted to celebrate what …
