A mild winter is being cited as one of the factors in tempering what had looked like it would be a near-record year for Utah house fire responses. On Wednesday, the American Red Cross of Utah sent out a press release reporting on the number of house fires it had responded to statewide, noting ...

OGDEN — A handful of Utah state offices currently based in downtown Ogden will likely be moving elsewhere in the city. In emails to the Standard-Examiner, Executive Communications Director for the Utah Department of Government Operations Jeff Hymas confirmed that the State of Utah intends to ...

Criminal justice has emerged as one of the most wide-ranging and politically charged areas on lawmakers’ agendas in this year’s state legislative sessions. Across the country, legislators are weighing proposals that affect nearly every part of the criminal justice system, including ...

OGDEN — Ogden City is looking for the next great poet to represent the city. In a press release earlier this month, Ogden City Arts put out a call for applications the 2026-2028 Ogden Poet Laureate. “Poetry has a unique ability to capture who we are as a community; our history, our ...

The effort to repeal Utah’s voter-approved, anti-gerrymandering law known as Proposition 4 hit a big milestone Sunday night as supporters submitted more than 200,000 signatures to county clerks for verification. But the effort is still far from over. The question of whether the repeal will ...

The Utah Legislature sent another bill impacting the judiciary to Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk on Friday. Within hours, the governor signed it without publicly weighing in. The Utah House on Friday morning gave final legislative approval to HB392, a bill to create a rotating, three-judge ...