On Sunday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a donation of $2 million to the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City. The donation is to help Native American tribes learn more about their ancestral roots, according to the church. Elder Kyle S. McKay of the Seventy, and ...
Ally Isom was no longer comfortable on the sidelines. In July, the former deputy chief of staff for Gov. Gary Herbert and executive for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that she was running for the U.S. Senate. In her race for the seat currently held by Republican Sen. ...
The Orem City Police Department has been involved with a three-day investigation that includes the fatalities of two women involved in a car crash at 400 S. State St. On Monday, the names of the two deceased were released. The victims are Hailee York, 21, and Ashlyn Hanzon, 21, according Lt. ...
In 1973, the Woodbury Corp. took a chance with a new flagship project called University Mall. At the time, other than a few homes and open fields, there wasn’t much in the 133 acres. A new connector road had gone in from Provo to Orem and west to Interstate 15. Residents fondly called the ...
During a trip to Hawaii this past Spring, Amber Wykstra noticed her 15 year-old son, Cooper, was drinking a lot of water. “I mean a lot,” she said. He was also using the bathroom more than usual and, even though he was exercising, Wykstra said she had noticed her son was losing weight a ...
Finding health care workers quickly during the pandemic became a pressing need, so Ogden Regional Medical Center started a hire-and-train program for new certified nursing assistants. “COVID created an undesirable circumstance where a lot of health care workers left to take other job ...
It has been two months since the Orem City Council voted to place a six-month moratorium on the State Street Master Plan. The moratorium, according to some councilmembers, was used as a pause button so they could do some tweaking and refining to certain aspects of the plan. The most important ...
It’s been five years since Stephenie Larsen, and a handful of backers and stakeholders, bought their first Encircle house in Provo. On Wednesday, the Encircle Resources Centers received the greatest news of all. Encircle successfully completed its "$8 Million, 8 Houses" Campaign, opened its ...
The clock could be running out for Utah County teenagers participating in the TikTok "Devious Licks" challenge and wreaking havoc at schools and on city park properties. Orem reported it had to close all of its bathrooms in all the city parks early due to vandalism in September. The bathrooms ...
Utah County has seen a variety of transportation options over the past century or so. In fact, in some cases, history is repeating itself. That is true with the proposed FrontRunner expansion anticipated for the southern portion of the county. As late as the 1930s, a commuter train ran between ...
