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 […]

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Jon Beesley sees disconnect between Weber County Commission and its cities, residents

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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Restraint and policy knowledge shape Kara Toone’s candidacy for House District 14 seat

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New grant programs help expand housing, support services for Weber County families

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 […]

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Renderings show vision for massive data center proposed in Utah, but permits could take years

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 […]

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Cox issues emergency declaration over crops lost to unseasonal weather

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 […]

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Parts of scenic SR 153 in southern Utah washed out, forcing UDOT to close it indefinitely

Standard-Examinerdata center development

A Box Elder County group wants voters there to decide proposed data center’s fate

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, […]

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Beehive Meals celebrates new Ogden headquarters with ribbon cutting

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 […]