Utah Valley University celebrated Thursday the opening of a building that will serve as the educational base for some of the school's most innovative students. The four-story, 197,000 square-foot Scott M. Smith College of Engineering and Technology Building will bring the numerous ...
Influenza rates in Utah have dropped significantly since the holiday season but still remain prevalent as doctors urge people to get a flu shot. During the week of Dec. 28, the state reported nine influenza-associated hospitalizations per 100,000 people, or 314 cases, marking the highest rate ...
Amid ongoing tensions between the Utah Legislature and the state’s judiciary, a lawmaker wants to ask voters to give the Legislature the power to call a “special retention election” if legislators decide that a judge is “unfit or incompetent.” Rep. Walt Brooks, R-St. George, is ...
The Republican-controlled Utah Legislature launched its 2026 general session Tuesday with top House and Senate GOP leaders celebrating the state’s strengths while calling for lawmakers to focus on ways to help people in their day-to-day lives — specifically by reducing cost of living and ...
Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, is calling for Provo's 4th District Court to speed up the trial of Tyler Robinson, who is charged by the state with her husband's murder. In a court document filed Friday through her representation, Erika Kirk called for the invocation of the Speedy Trial ...
Last year was a busy time for local school board races in the northern half of Utah County, with all three new school districts derived from the Alpine School District split holding elections to decide their new public officials. School board elections in 2026 will shift to the southern half ...
