Three months to the day after becoming mayor of Provo on Jan. 6, Marsha Judkins sat in her work-in-progress office Monday at City Hall and fielded questions from the Daily Herald. Reflecting on her first days in office, she spoke on her initial steps as mayor, her overall vision for the city ...

My sister-in-law's dog, Molly, died recently. She was a sweet, graying Portuguese water dog, one of the gentlest pups I've ever met. She displayed a propensity for stealing food off the counter, refused to walk in heat, rain or cold and had an unhealthy obsession with eating dirt, but ...

Utahns have one more week to apply to receive free native plants before a deadline for the state’s pollinator habitat program flies by. It’s not just individual gardeners that are eligible, but also nonprofits, government agencies, businesses, hospitals, and Native American tribes, among ...

As Utah pushes to become a force in the artificial intelligence industry, its flagship university is quickly working on developing a supercomputing system researchers hope will accelerate cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health, and genetic and environmental discoveries. The system being built at ...

Days after setting the NCAA record in the 10,000 meters at the Stanford Invitational last Friday, Jane Hedengren created history in another way Tuesday afternoon. The freshman distance-running phenom from Provo stood atop a stage at Brigham Square on Brigham Young University's campus and ...

Last week's Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop in Dayton, Ohio, celebrated 25 years of the conference. The University of Dayton held the first workshop in 2000 as a one-time event to commemorate the Bombeck family's gift of Erma's papers to her alma mater. It turns out once just wasn't enough, and ...