Provo City is working toward opening two fields on the 100-acre Epic Sports Park in west Provo for community use. Provo Mayor Marsha Judkins addressed the plans in a social media video to the city last week. "It's really important to me, and it's something that I heard often when I was out ...
After several years of reforms to the Utah System of Higher Education, state leaders and presidents of public colleges and universities signed a resolution committing to keeping higher education affordable, accessible and “focused on impactful outcomes.” With the resolution, higher ...
A 2024 U.S. national survey reported that 11.8% of males and 7.6% of females ages 12 and older met the criteria for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in 2023, meaning they could not stop or control alcohol use despite serious health and relationship consequences. Some individuals are more susceptible ...
At the southernmost point of Utah Lake, Goshen Bay includes a section of the Utah Lake Wetland Preserve and serves as a haven for bird migration and hunting. A bill sponsored in the state Legislature, H.B. 93, seeks to further protect the area by designating it as the Goshen Bay Waterfowl ...
Two deputies with the Utah County Sheriff's Office stopped a wrong-way driver on Interstate 15 by forcing a collision around 4 a.m. Saturday morning near Provo. According to a sheriff's office news release, the deputies responded to an agency assist for the reported wrong-way driver going ...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s State of the State speech this year had hints of state policy, while again focusing on building. But now, what needs to be built the most, Cox emphasized, is “moral infrastructure.” In an almost 30-minute speech to members of the state Senate and House Thursday ...
