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 ...
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 ...
After Christmas is over, and the sunrises start getting earlier and the sunsets later in the Northern Hemisphere, there are still two months of scarce daylight and lowering skies ahead. Here's a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours with uplift: read.
Read some great books, returning ...
I am the lucky mother of a beautiful, confident and independent daughter. All three of these qualities are problematic, the last two especially. My mother left both of her grandchildren a small legacy. Catherine was in college at the time and decided to spend some of the money on a study abroad ...
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, ...
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 ...