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 …
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NORTH OGDEN — Brent Taylor lived with his aunt and uncle and their children while he attended Brigham Young University.
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OGDEN — As fewer and fewer veterans populate the United States, veterans organizations are seeing a corresponding decrease in memberships. But an American Legion post in west Ogden is bucking that trend, still going strong after 100 years.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — It was 50 years ago this month that Neil Armstrong uttered what has become one of the most well-known sentences in modern history: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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NORTH OGDEN — Sgt. 1st Class Elliott Robbins' time in North Ogden was relatively short, but his impact was large.
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An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Tuesday, July 2, 2019. According to the Department of Defense, Robbins, of Ogden, Utah, assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group died while supporti…
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Troops and jets from Hill Air Force Base recently took to the sky with a pair of the United States’ most well-known allies.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — There's a new top dog at the helm of Hill Air Force Base's active-duty fighter wing.
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SUNSET — The effort to build a new freeway interchange in Davis County and a new entry gate into Hill Air Force Base appears to be getting a boost from the federal government.
SALT LAKE CITY — A Russian citizen was ordered deported Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of violating arms control law and smuggling F-16 fighter jet technical manuals to Moscow.
SALT LAKE CITY — A change-of-plea and sentencing hearing has been scheduled for a Russian citizen accused of smuggling F-16 technical manuals to his nation and other countries.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Crews from Hill Air Force Base’s two fighter wings have finished a key component of their European security deployment.
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NORTH OGDEN — Federal officials hope the legacy of former North Ogden Mayor and Utah National Guardsman Brent Taylor will exert a meaningful influence on an important veterans facility operating in Northern Utah.
For the first time, Utah’s Honor Flight program will take an all-female flight to the nation’s capital on Thursday. LaRetta Johnson Duncan, 87, of Provo will be on that flight.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office says in-service F-35s were unable to fly nearly 30 percent of the time during a six-month period in 2018 because of part shortages and mismatches and repair backlogs.
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NORTH OGDEN — Northern Utah’s only vet center will officially be named after former North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor.
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CLINTON — While one portion of a massive freeway project at 1800 North in Clinton is set to go, transportation officials say they’re still waiting on funding for the other.
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SOUTH WEBER — The Trump administration is switching Weber Basin Job Corps Center to contract management, a move encountering intense opposition from the employees union and skepticism from Utah Rep. Rob Bishop.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — For much of the summer, the remaining portions of Hill Air Force Base's F-35 team will be flying out of a home away from home.
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KAYSVILLE — Larry Steed paid tribute to fallen fellow combat pilots, applauded military families that hold down the home front, and mixed in a few critiques of politicians and war protesters.
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The Redd sons have known since a young age what their parents expected of them.
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ROY — The Purple Heart, the U.S. flag folded into a triangle, the black-and-white picture of the military man holding the mortar shell — it’s all a mystery.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Combat F-35s and associated crews from Hill Air Force Base continue with a heavy deployment load.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — As members of Utah’s congressional delegation push the federal government to prioritize a nuclear weapons modernization program at Hill Air Force Base, local officials are asking the transportation department to be aware of an influx of new jobs that will come with it.
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Brent and Jennie Taylor’s story began at Brigham Young University. As undergraduates, their roommates set them up, pitching to Jennie that Brent was the male version of her.
Several public events are happening on Memorial Day in Northern Utah, including a veterans program at Kaysville Cemetery and the kickoff of Ogden Dinosaur Park's summer season.
OGDEN — A Russian is jailed in Weber County, charged with smuggling F-16 fighter manuals to Moscow and trying to obtain guides for other front-line Air Force jets.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force is moving a significant weapons testing program to Hill Air Force Base, which will bring new jobs and according to one federal lawmaker, add to the base’s standing within the Department of Defense.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — When it comes to federal military spending across the country, Utah — a state with one of the largest Air Force installations in the U.S. — ranks mostly near the middle of the pack.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Brent Taylor did not only make his mark serving the Utah Army National Guard and as mayor of North Ogden.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force now says Hill Air Force Base’s risk for climate-related peril is not as dire as an earlier Department of Defense report may have made it seem.
A federal court will hear arguments dissecting the legal definitions of automatic weapons and determining whether an Orem inventor’s imprisonment for manufacturing machine guns should stand.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — F-35s from Hill Air Force Base have conducted combat strikes on enemy forces for the first time.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — More than 120 airmen from Hill Air Force Base returned Monday from a seven-month deployment in the Middle East.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — During most of the month of May, residents near Hill Air Force Base will see an uptick in military air traffic.
NORTH OGDEN — A gigantic U.S. flag inspired by Brent Taylor, the North Ogden mayor killed while serving last year in Afghanistan, has been finished and will soon make its formal public debut.
OGDEN — With a new census coming during the next calendar year, an Ogden man says he’s redoubling his effort to prompt the bureau responsible for it to get a more robust counting of veterans.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — F-35s from Hill Air Force Base have deployed to the Middle East for the first time.
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For two decades, a federal law has allowed local law enforcement agencies to acquire surplus military gear — everything from gloves, tents and flares to assault rifles and mine-resistant vehicles.
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Of the 79 “mission-critical” United States military installations operating today, the Pentagon says Hill Air Force Base is the most at risk for negative impacts from climate change.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The conversation lasted a few minutes.
