For 17 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has compiled a report of states with the best economic outlook — and for 17 years, Utah has emerged at the top of the list. On Tuesday, the Beehive State again emerged as the top state in the report “Rich States, Poor States,” ...
OGDEN — Union Pacific's "Big Boy" No. 4014 is set to make a return to Ogden this summer. On Wednesday, the Union Pacific Railroad announced new details about a planned tour of the system by the 4014, including a planned stop in Ogden. "Union Pacific's famed Big Boy No. 4014, the world's ...
OGDEN — Rodney Smith Jr., founder of the Alabama-based nonprofit Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service, will be in the Beehive State this weekend as part of his mission to do good around the U.S. Smith is stopping in Ogden on Saturday to mow the lawn of breast cancer survivor Ashlie ...
OGDEN — Short of a worst-case scenario, local officials aren't seeing much of a widespread flood risk this spring. A year removed from record snowpacks and runoffs that had officials making early preparations for flooding, Eli Johnson, Weber County emergency management coordinator, told the ...
It’s been four years since Utah lawmakers tried but failed to adopt a tax reform package meant to respond to a changing economy and address a structural imbalance within the state’s revenue streams, but since then lawmakers have yet to revisit the conversation. On Friday, a pair of Utah ...
WEBER COUNTY — Thanks to some recently acquired federal funds, the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is set to embark on a scientific undertaking to study the benefits of covering a portion of a local canal with solar paneling, a project the U.S. Department of the Interior says will ...
Several Utah men were charged in a fraud case involving signature gathering for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District race last fall. A total of 13 people have been charged in connection with the case. The charges were filed last Friday and also involve defendants from Nevada and ...
BRIGHAM CITY — A Riverdale man is dead after crashing into a building in Brigham City on Saturday night. The man was identified in a Brigham City Police Department release as 20-year-old Brendyn Miller of Riverdale. According to the release, authorities were dispatched to the scene at 807 ...
OGDEN — Weber State University is launching a sweeping program in the hope of building a stronger bilingual workforce. The university announced last month it is aiming to develop a program that will offer certificates and degrees through classes taught entirely in Spanish. Known as the ...
After having attending Saturday afternoon's session of the 194th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in person at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, President Russell M. Nelson attended virtually again Sunday, as he had done with Saturday's other ...
