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Guest opinion: The infrastructure investment nobody talks about

Americans love ribbon cuttings. We celebrate the groundbreaking. We admire the rendering. We announce the project cost. Politicians gather for photographs. Local headlines proclaim progress. Then we move on. What rarely receives the same attention is what happens 10, 20, or 30 years later ...

State officials want you to wear your life jacket

Utah is joining other states like Texas and Florida this summer, telling boaters, paddleboarders and anyone else heading to a lake or river to wear their life jackets in case something goes wrong. But a state official said Thursday their message doesn’t seem to be getting through. “When ...

State rejects proposal for new town in Provo Canyon

The Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office has rejected a proposal for a new municipality to be established on the Wasatch County side of Provo Canyon. A letter from the Lieutenant Governor's Office last week rescinded a feasibility request issued June 25 for a preliminary municipality called Bear ...

BYU: PathSay project uses AI to cross language barriers

Thousands of the world's languages remain largely invisible to modern translation technology, but researchers and students at Brigham Young University are working to change that. Through a project called Pathsay, students in the BYU MATRIX lab are partnering with international BYU-Pathway ...

Guest opinion: All of the fun of a vacation to the Redwoods

First off, I have to apologize. The trip to the Redwoods was entirely my idea. I was seized with the compulsion to go before the war with Iran broke out. Naturally, I assumed that if we took a trip with lots of long drives that gas prices would go up for the occasion, but I had no idea it would ...