For two years now, animal advocates have urged Utah lawmakers to do something to help cats and dogs saved from abusive situations only to spend months or years stuck in animal shelters as their owners’ criminal cases wind slowly through the courts, with taxpayers footing the bill. They may ...
A recent study found a high correlation between wearing hearing aids and reducing dementia risks, and a local audiologist says she’s seen the connection in her own work. The study, published in JAMA Neurology last year, found that hearing-aid wearers younger than 70 reduce their dementia ...
As a blizzard descended on Salt Lake City on Wednesday, a federal three-judge panel spent hours grilling attorneys on opposing sides of a new redistricting lawsuit seeking to throw out a state judge’s earlier decisions that voided Utah’s 2021 congressional map and ordered a remedial map ...
The rise of community mental health services during the 20th century stabilized the number of patients at state mental health hospitals, contributing to the deinstitutionalization of these facilities across the nation. In recent years, though, Utah State Hospital Superintendent Dallas ...
Biscuit was still a puppy — just 1 year old — when her owner at the time was charged with animal abuse. “Her kennel mate did not survive the animal cruelty, but she did,” said Talia Butler, division director of Salt Lake County Animal Services. But even after Biscuit was confiscated ...
The Provo Planning Commission recommended approval to the City Council last week to rezone an East Bay property to allow for a data center, then approved a project plan to build a 66,000 square-foot data center upon the property with conditions. The rezoning decision would add a data center ...
