Last week, the Orem City Council narrowed its options on regulating short-term rentals, or STRs, going forward to two: allowing owner-occupied only, or allowing non-owner-occupied rentals with strict regulations.  The council remained split on a preference between the contrasting options, but ...

Intermountain Health announced plans last week to break ground on a "significant expansion" of its Spanish Fork Hospital. The project will happen on the hospital's north side and increase the services offered at the campus, according to an Intermountain Health social media post Friday. The ...

A new multi-university academic consortium led by Brigham Young University has found AI models have significant biases and gaps when it comes to addressing faith and religion. Newly published research from The Consortium for Evaluation of Faith and Ethics in AI, or CEFE-AI, — a ...

When billionaire Kevin O’Leary, also known as “Mr. Wonderful” on the reality TV show “Shark Tank” announced that a huge data center would be built in the Hansel Valley of Box Elder County, it indeed set off a firestorm. Even for a data center, this one was extra big as the facility ...

I recently re-watched the Disney movie, Secretariat, which came out in 2004. I like a good sports movie and that’s a classic, representing the story of probably the greatest racehorse of all time. In that movie, the character of Penny Chenery (played by Diane Lane) tells her father, Chris ...

Professional arborists pressed pause on their work days Friday to determine the top tree climber of them all.  Forty-seven tree caretakers from across the state and beyond convened at Payson's Memorial Park for the 33rd annual Utah Tree Climbing Competition, hosted by the Utah Community ...