Nearly 10 months after Utah County entered into a memorandum of understanding with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement, or ICE, to allow sheriff's office personnel to perform certain immigration enforcement functions, Sheriff Mike Smith reaffirmed his commitment to the agreement in a county ...
Interstate 15 is slated to close in Lehi early Saturday morning as crews work to relocate utilities in preparation for 2100 North construction. From midnight to 5 a.m., I-15 will be closed southbound from Exit 282 to Main Street in Lehi, the Utah Department of Transportation said. Southbound ...
Brenna Williams paused to fight emotion on a stage in Salt Lake City Wednesday as she talked about the effects she’s worried a massive data center could have on the Great Salt Lake and its Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. And that was before she got into her concerns about her grandchildren, ...
A new grocery store is planned for a southern Utah Valley community as part of a multi-use development. Harmons Grocery will be the anchor tenant for the 111-acre Salem Central in Salem City located near Loafer Mountain Parkway and S.R. 198, Kreate Development announced Tuesday. The Harmons ...
The Provo City Council tentatively adopted Mayor Marsha Judkins' proposed budget Tuesday for the 2026-27 fiscal year, a step in the administrative process to finalize the budget by the June 30 deadline. The proposed budget is balanced without any property tax increases; however, it entails a ...
When The Atlantic reporter McKay Coppins kicked off his on-stage conversation with Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Monday, he started out with a joke asking the governor when he would be announcing his run for president. Coppins, who also hosts a Deseret News podcast, pointed to Cox’s recently ...
Elder W. Mark Bassett, the executive director of the Missionary Department and member of the General Authority Seventy, died Monday as a result of a traumatic brain injury, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced. Bassett, 59, was with his family in St. George when the ...
It may take a village to raise a child ... but what about those who don't live in a village? Our modern times put tremendous time constraints and pressures on families and communities, however, and so it's vital to have others step up to provide a key helping hand in the nurturing of ...
Mountainland Technical College's 2026 graduating class marked the largest for a technical college in state history as nearly 3,000 students walked across the aisle Tuesday at the UCCU Center on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem. With 89% of graduates currently employed or having ...
The Brigham Young University Supermileage club's primary objective each year is to maximize vehicle fuel efficiency. Along the way, the team has become efficient winners. For the third time in the last four years, the group of BYU engineering students won the Shell Eco Marathon by creating ...
