Ahead of a vote by the Eagle Mountain City Council in August that could place a Recreation, Arts, and Parks (RAP) tax proposal on the November 2025 ballot, the city is clearing up a misconception regarding what funds from the tax cannot fund. As the Daily Herald reported last month, Eagle ...

Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans. The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about ...

Environmental groups are now rich. In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations. $8 billion! "The environmental industrial complex actually has more money in the PR game, the lobbying game, than the real industry," says physicist Mark Mills in my new ...

An agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow the Utah County Sheriff’s Office to enforce aspects of immigration law was approved by the Utah County Commission Wednesday in Provo.  The vote came after over three hours of a public comment period from residents who ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and several lawmakers gathered in a sweltering field next to an old barn in the tiny farm community of Palmyra on Tuesday to announce state officials had recently blocked a Chinese state-owned company from buying land near the Provo Airport. Cox said he wanted to make ...

A Brigham Young University research group has spent the last 20 years learning how to create wildflower meadows that are resistant to weed reinvasions, leading to reduced wildfire risk and beautified natural areas. Some prior research occurred off and on at Rock Canyon in Provo, but ...