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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Two years after Hill Air Force Base’s F-35s were declared ready for limited combat, pilots there say their confidence in the jet is now at an all-time high.
LOGAN — A Cache County K9 service dog died this week during surgery to remove an infection caused by Foxtail weeds.
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SOUTH OGDEN — Jesus Martinez Ramos Jr. stabbed one roommate in the shoulder, back and chest, then stabbed another twice in the back, and broke both their phones, Salt Lake City police alleged in an incident report last summer.
SALT LAKE CITY — The number of homeless people living in Utah on a single night in January remained relatively steady from 2017 to 2018, according to data from the state’s annual Point-in-Time Count.
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WASHINGTON — Pointing to growing threats and competition from Russia and China, the White House on Thursday announced ambitious plans to create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth, separate military warfighting service by 2020.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The skies above Hill Air Force Base will be busier than normal throughout August as the U.S. Air Force conducts two readiness exercises.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — If you’re near western Utah and hear a loud bang in the next two months, relax. It’s just a drill.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The entirety of Hill Air Force Base’s little-known, but long-running newspaper is now available with the click of a mouse.
WEST HAVEN — With a father that served in Iwo Jima and Okinawa and a grandmother who sent three boys off to the battle, World War II is firmly established in Kim Dixon’s family history.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — More than a half million people attended this year’s Warriors Over the Wasatch Air and Space Show at Hill Air Force Base.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Planes of all shapes and sizes will take to the sky above Hill Air Force Base this weekend for the 2018 Warriors Over the Wasatch air show.
LAYTON — What started as a small car show in the parking lot of a real estate business has turned into a much larger annual celebration of military veterans held in the park.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with the latest from the Associated Press.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Air Force personnel and area first responders will practice responding to a major accident Wednesday, May 9, at Hill Air Force Base.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base’s de facto mayor is leaving her post.
Retirement is proving to be a huge change filled with “firsts” for one Fruit Heights resident.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Department of Defense’s ongoing effort to upgrade the United States’ nuclear weapons program continues to bring jobs to Northern Utah.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The F-16 era is officially and permanently over at Hill Air Force Base.
PORDENONE, ITALY — In a friendship ceremony Sunday, Italians honored a group of 20 Falcons, who are former and honorary commanders of the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Department of Defense is sending F-35s to the Pacific to flex military muscle as North Korea continues to escalate global tensions through its nuclear missile program.
SALT LAKE CITY — Governor Gary Herbert confirmed to the public that one member of the Utah National Guard was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan.
KABUL, Afghanistan — One Utah National Guard member is dead and seven others were injured during combat operations Wednesday in Afghanistan.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — This year’s national defense budget includes more than $50 million for new construction at Hill Air Force Base and a pair of policy changes to help the installation bring in new hires.
OGDEN — Roaring along at 150 mph, Ogden native Ray Hobbs flew his B-17 bomber a scant 10 feet off the ground.
OGDEN — The weight will be heavy for participants, but they’ll carry on, much like the loved ones of those who have died from suicide.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — In terms of combat, Hill Air Force Base’s dwindling fleet of F-16s has been out of commission for nearly 18 months.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force’s combat jet of the future has flown across the pond for the first time.
For the first time, F-35A Lighting II jets are in Europe.
OGDEN — The United States entered “The war to end all wars” 100 years ago, but historians say the reverberations of that action are still felt today, particularly in Northern Utah.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The president and officials inside the F-35 program have said costs for the next-generation fighter are coming down, but a new report from a government watchdog says that contention is misleading.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Construction of the first “outside-the-fence” tech building at a massive Hill Air Force Base development carries with it some lofty expectations.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — While at least one government watchdog group has questioned the F-35’s combat readiness, the pilots who fly the plane at Hill Air Force Base say they’d take the jet to battle in an instant.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A government watchdog group says recent cost-saving claims associated with the F-35 program and even the jet’s combat-ready status have been overstated.
President Donald Trump said Monday that Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from its next lot of 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes, capping weeks of private meetings with Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson, and public criticisms of the program's cost.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Thirteen of Hill Air Force Base’s 17 F-35s have left the installation.
Starting on Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11, military veterans will be able to shop online at military exchange websites.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — While Donald Trump admonished the F-35 yet again on Wednesday, Air Force brass says the president-elect will face a mountain of resistance if he tries to make cuts to the program.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — It took an act of Congress, but the Air Force’s biggest testing range is about to get even bigger.
For most people, spending time with family and friends is one of the best parts of the holidays.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — President-elect Donald Trump made his first public statement on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on Monday, blasting the $400 billion program’s high costs.
WASHINGTON — Just over a year after Northrop Grumman won the multi-billion dollar contract to build a next-generation stealth bomber, the company appointed Mark Welsh, who was serving as Army Chief of Staff at the time of the contract award, to its board.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base’s 45 F-16s have found a temporary home and will be used sooner than anticipated to help curb an agency-wide shortage of fighter pilots.
Jerry Green wrote the poem “Veterans Day” in the early 1970s. The Clearfield veteran was living in Georgia at the time and watching his peers return from Vietnam.
OGDEN — With rock music blaring out of a truck, volunteers upgraded the American Legion Baker-Merrill Post No. 9 building on Veterans Day.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Apparently, the Air Force needs its Warthogs more than they thought they would — and so Hill Air Force Base must answer the bell.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Half of Hill Air Force Base’s temporarily grounded F-35 fleet will be flying again by week’s end.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The manufacturer of the F-35 is bringing a new office to Hill Air Force Base, but the work that will be done there is about striking from the ground rather than in the air.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Utah Aviation Hall of Fame has a new home at the Hill Aerospace Museum.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Residents near Hill Air Force Base are likely to hear night flying missions into next week, and part of the base’s F-35 fleet will participate.
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