Smoky skies have teamed up with ozone pollution and dust storms over the Great Salt Lake for a many-sided assault on air quality this summer. Wildfire smoke has cleared away for now, but it may be just a matter of time before it returns to northern Utah during this historic fire season. And ...

Those of you of a certain vintage — who, like me, are close to being fitted for coffins — must be applauding the re-appearance on TV (the INSP channel) of Have Gun - Will Travel (for some reason with a hyphen, not a dash or a comma; let’s call it HGWT). That extraordinarily popular show ...

Men in the U.S. are stuck -- stuck in dissatisfaction, stuck in judgement and stuck in a culture that increasingly tells them that they aren't strong enough, attractive enough or mean enough to matter. In a perhaps related development, American sailors appear to be trying to escape the ...

With the Alpine School District split fast approaching, Utah County's three newly-formed districts are searching for ways to meet their logistical needs in time for the 2027-28 school year.  The latest agreement between two of the districts will keep one from needing to build new ...

In Provo, there is a disconnect between existing community resources available and the people who know about them, according to Tim Smith, a member of Provo-based Preservando El Arte.  It can be amplified by a language barrier for Spanish-speaking individuals, or those who speak English as ...

It's worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close and, given the pre-primary polls, surprising results of recent Democratic primaries in the key swing Midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin, with a side look at Minnesota. These results highlight a basic ...