There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning -- when spending becomes ...

An officer fatally shot a woman who was armed with a firearm after responding to a call regarding a domestic violence incident early Sunday morning, according to the Nephi City Police Department. The department said in a news release that officers responded to the domestic violence incident ...

Utah Valley University is launching a new scholarship that will reward freshman students who took college classes while in high school. First-year UVU students who participated in UVU's Concurrent Enrollment Program during high school and gained college credit will be eligible for the Freshman ...

An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), "Going Further," calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, his conservative, originalist ...

A tax increase to cover costs for two new police officers was approved in a 5-2 vote at an Orem City Council Truth and Taxation meeting Thursday night.  The 6.95% tax increase will bring $450,000 in additional revenue to the city. It will raise the annual city property tax cost for a ...

A historic Lehi train museum will open to guests and visitors Saturday as part of Lehi Heritage Days from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Utah Southern Railroad Depot will be open for just the second time since it closed in 2020. In July, the museum had a soft opening that saw more than 250 ...