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  • Mia Love announces 2014 congressional candidacy

    SALT LAKE CITY — Saturday, Mia Love tossed her hat into the ring a second time as candidate for the 4th Congressional District. Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love told the Utah Republican Organizing Convention Saturday she would be running for the 4th District seat in Congress in 2014. "We have some unfinished business with Jim Matheson," she said. In the 2012 general ...

  • Hundreds of volunteers tackle service projects in Salt Lake City

    Eric Smith, left, and Scott McLeod work on a yard project with other Young Single Adult volunteers in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Around 1000 YSA volunteers are working on various projects in Salt Lake ...

  • More research needed on lowering blood alcohol limit both sides say

    SALT LAKE CITY - Sen. John Valentine, the legislator behind most of the recent changes to Utah's liquor laws, said Wednesday it's too soon to say whether he will sponsor a bill next session lowering the blood alcohol level for impaired driving. "The recommendation just came out yesterday," the Orem Republican told reporters after an interim legislative meeting that included ...

  • James Evans elected as new Utah GOP chairman

    SANDY (AP) - Several thousand Republicans convened in Sandy where James Evans was selected as the new leader of the Utah Republican Party at the annual organizing convention. Delegates at Saturday's daylong event chose from three candidates vying to replace the outgoing chairman and consider proposals to adjust the party's process for nominating candidates. Evans was the nominee ...

  • Refugee Boy Scout collects soccer balls to donate help other refugees

    SALT LAKE CITY - A refugee teenager is using his favorite hobby to give back to the community and earn his Boy Scout Eagle award by collecting and donating soccer balls. Kicking around a soccer ball is more than a past time for 13-year-old Joj Kwizera. The refugee said he grew up playing soccer in Congo, and now he competes and practices at least four days a week in his Salt Lake City ...


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Movie Review

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon

When British talk show host David Frost interviewed disgraced ex-President Richard Nixon on television in 1977, it was viewed by many as the trial that Nixon never had. And, while he didnt go so far as to admit criminal guilt, Nixon did concede his involvement in a cover up and said that ... ...

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  • Never feed a bear among safety tips offered by DWR

    SALT LAKE CITY - The state Division of Wildlife Resources is offering safety tips to prevent bears from being attracted to campsites so campers can avoid tragedy this summer. Black bears, the only bears that live in Utah, are usually scared of people and will do anything they can to avoid humans, said John Shivik, mammals coordinator for the DWR. "That can change, though, if a bear starts ...

  • Utah schools receive $108M to reduce class sizes

    SALT LAKE CITY - Public school officials on Wednesday presented the first of what is expected to be an annual report on the use of state class size reduction funding to members of the Education Interim Committee. The reporting follows the passage ...

  • Myton students celebrate 100 percent increase in reading levels

    MYTON - In the small Eastern Utah town of Myton, they like to go big, and the community staged a Myton-style celebration for the elementary school students for their reading progress on Friday night. The Mighty Myton readers have worked hard this school year. A few dozen struggling students worked one-on-one with volunteer tutors, many of whom drive 20 miles to get to the school. However, ...

  • Bronze Plaque honoring Salt Lake City police officer unveiled

    SALT LAKE CITY &#8212 Friday afternoon was the first time Sandi Dunman-Bromley has been at a ceremony for her husband. At least this time, though, she could smile a little. "This is very exciting," said Dunman-Bromley, "I think it's fantastic. It's been almost 13 years, so I'm really excited we got the plaque up." The plaque she's talking about ...

  • Medical artists work helping cancer survivors feel whole again

    SALT LAKE CITY — A mastectomy is a common method of treatment breast cancer patients. For some cancer survivors, what the surgery takes away has a more profound effect on them than they had imagined. Brenda Shilder could appreciate the difficult choice revealed this ...

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