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Polar freeze: Annual Pond Town Polar Plunge discontinued in 2026
Utah redistricting: Judge allows Legislature to appeal one of her rulings to Utah Supreme Court
Daily Herald year in review: Remembering acts of community service in 2025
Judge rules to unseal closed Oct. 24 Tyler Robinson hearing with some redactions
Date of Jeffrey R. Holland’s funeral services announced
Utah beef prices reached a record high in 2025, report says
The Daily Herald’s top human interest stories of 2025
Year in review: Daily Herald’s 2025 news stories of the year
Utah to start assessing fees on properties in ‘high risk’ wildfire areas to encourage prevention
JOECKS: How AI undermines education
If you want to develop human intelligence, you can't let students rely on artificial intelligence. Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs that create new content based on prompts or ...
BECKERMAN: Tying one on
I am a scarf person, but I am married to a non-scarf person. Conversely, my husband is a hat person, and I am not a hat person. He says scarves are itchy and make him look like he has no chin. I say hats ruin my hair and make my head look like Charlie Brown's. So whenever it gets cold out, he ...
Daily Herald year in review: Remembering acts of community service in 2025
When someone is in need, residents of Utah Valley are often there to help. The community's compassion was exemplified in 2025, when acts of service took place in cities throughout the valley. Here are some important moments of charity covered by the Daily Herald staff this year: Volunteers ...
Polar freeze: Annual Pond Town Polar Plunge discontinued in 2026
The 11th annual Pond Town Polar Plunge, a growing New Year's Day tradition where people jump into the Salem Pond, will not take place Thursday, organizer Jefferson Chase announced Monday. Chase, a Salem native who started the plunge in 2015, said he is discontinuing the event because, for ...
Fourth person arrested after Eagle Mountain shooting; victim making improvement
A fourth person was arrested in connection with a Dec. 23 shooting in Eagle Mountain, the Utah County Sheriff's Office announced Monday. Leopoldo Gutierrez, 25, of Lehi, was arrested Monday on suspicion of two counts of aggravated attempted murder, 18 counts of felony discharge of a firearm, ...
Utah redistricting: Judge allows Legislature to appeal one of her rulings to Utah Supreme Court
Despite calling out the Utah Legislature’s attorneys for failing to appeal her previous redistricting rulings at more appropriate junctures, 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson has issued a ruling allowing lawmakers to appeal one of her decisions throwing out the state’s 2021 congressional ...