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What residents are talking about in Box Elder County public meetings, ranked by community engagement.
Recent coverage of Box Elder County from local and regional media.
OGDEN — Managed parking is set to arrive in downtown Ogden this summer and the city is looking to prepare residents for what this will look like. Ogden City Communications Director Mike McBride told the Standard-Examiner in an email Friday that the familiarization campaign is set to begin this week. “The initial parking management system […]
A wide variety of Utah leaders — including sheriffs, police chiefs and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall — along with advocates for people experiencing homelessness and struggling with addiction or mental health are all rallying to save a Utah Medicaid program from being discontinued. Federal officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services […]
Editor’s note: The Standard-Examiner has invited primary candidates from Weber and Davis counties to sit down to answer questions from the editorial board and share their vision. Over the next month, the Standard-Examiner will share the highlights from these conversations, giving candidates equal time and balanced presentation so you can evaluate these candidacies as fairly […]
Editor’s note: The Standard-Examiner has invited primary candidates from Weber and Davis counties to sit down to answer questions from the editorial board and share their vision. Over the next month, the Standard-Examiner will share the highlights from these conversations, giving candidates equal time and balanced presentation so you can evaluate these candidacies as fairly […]
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WEBER COUNTY — Two new grant programs are already helping several Weber County families in need get a boost. In April, Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership, or OWCAP, announced in a press release that nearly 100 families had been helped by two three-year grants made possible through funding from the Department of Workforce Services via […]
Backers of a proposed massive data center are revealing their view of what it could look like, but the project generating intense public outcry in Utah has a long road ahead. The plan for the campus proposed in Box Elder County isn’t final yet. However, O’Leary Digital, the developer of the project, already has a […]
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has declared a 30-day state of emergency in 10 counties to address crop losses caused by unseasonal freezing temperatures in April. In an executive order signed Friday, the governor specified that freezing temperatures that occurred in early and mid-April caused a 95% to 100% loss of crop production of apricots, sweet and tart […]
Brenna Williams paused to fight emotion on a stage in Salt Lake City Wednesday as she talked about the effects she’s worried a massive data center could have on the Great Salt Lake and its Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. And that was before she got into her concerns about her grandchildren, who have asthma, […]
OGDEN — Beehive Meals has come a long way since its founding. From its foundation in 2019 as a desperate means of keeping a family financially stable to shipping slow cooker and flat top meal kits across the entire country, the company has seen some big changes in a short period of time. But few […]
Editor’s note: The Standard-Examiner has invited primary candidates from Weber and Davis Counties to sit down to answer questions from the editorial board and share their vision. Over the next month, the Standard-Examiner will share the highlights from these conversations, giving candidates equal time and balanced presentation so you can evaluate these candidacies as fairly […]
If and when sponsors of a massive proposed data center re-up their bid to use water from a stream north of the Great Salt Lake for the project, they’ll do so under a new set of rules. The project’s backers withdrew their request to use the water for industrial purposes instead of irrigation earlier this month after […]