(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Food Bank is beginning to create an infrastructure to identify, track and distribute culturally responsive foods across the state. They will pilot the program in Salt Lake County. The food bank will be updating its software, tracking systems and warehouse space, and increasing […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah State Board of Education is considering enacting a policy that would force public schools to share student information with charter schools. Public schools would share information including addresses and phone numbers to make it easier for charter schools to advertise directly to families. […]
(Orem, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is calling a Utah Highway Patrol trooper a hero for saving a colleague’s life. The incident happened Sunday after a driver going the wrong direction on I-15 near Orem slammed head-on into Trooper Carlos Rios-Redd. The wrong-way driver was killed and Rios-Redd’s vehicle caught […]
(St. George, UT) — The average price for a gallon of gas is now below three-dollars in Utah. Triple-A reports prices for unleaded have gone down to two-98 across the Beehive State, more than half-a-dollar less than what drivers were paying for at this time last month. And, while St. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s outdoor economy continues to show growth. The Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation released the economic impact report this month for the year 2022, showing more than eight-billion dollars in economic output. That’s a more than 32-percent increase from the year before and accounts for […]
The Utah Department of Corrections announced the appointment of a new warden at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison on Monday. Kristen Keisel will be replacing Bart Mortensen, who has been named the new warden at the prison in Salt Lake City. In a statement the department said, “this […]
(Layton, UT) — People living near Hill Air Force Base say deafening noise from new military jet planes is creating serious problems. The jets in question are F-35s, which locals say are much louder than the F-16 jets they’re used to hearing. According to neighbors, the vibrations from the planes […]
(St. George, UT) — Utah’s newest member of Congress is planning to start work this week. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Celeste Maloy intends to fly to the nation’s capital in order to be sworn-in to the House of Representatives. However, her election victory won’t be certified until next week. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Nine nonprofits are partnering with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for this year’s Giving Machines campaign. They are Church World Service, Lifting Hands International, UNICEF, Make-A-Wish Utah, 5 for the Fight, National Ability Center, Green Urban Lunch Box, Joy of Hope, and […]
(St. George, UT) — About two-thirds of a million people toured the St. George Temple during its nine-week open house. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said on Wednesday that nearly 670-thousand people took advantage of the open house to see the latest round of renovations. Acting President […]
