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 ...

The White House Correspondence Dinner doesn’t need a ballroom with state-of-the-art bulletproof glass; it just needs to die out as an event altogether. This year’s event as we all know by now was interrupted by an assassination attempt on President Trump (and his cabinet). Of course, the ...

My son came home from school the other day and announced that the two most underappreciated occupations were teachers and nurses. During National Nurses Week, he had heard that, he told me, from his teacher. And though her bias might have tinged the first part of her claim (frankly, I think ...