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Utah Valley Living: Places to go, things to do (July 5-13)
1 / 3 Entrants attempt feats of strength during the heavy athletics competitions as part of the Payson Scottish Festival at Memorial Park on Saturday, July 8, 2023. Harrison Epstein, Daily Herald file photo 2 / 3 Miss American Fork and other...

Inside a Utah desert facility preparing humans for life on Mars
Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mars Desert Research...

Up Close with Southern Utah’s Wild Side: Rare Field Opportunities from DWR
July 2025 — Southern Utah This July, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) invites adventurous community members, reporters, and photographers to experience wildlife up close through three unique, boots-on-the-ground opportunities across...

2025 Utah Great Reads from Great Places
Utah Humanities Press Release Morgan Sjogren’s Path of Light: A Walk Through Colliding Legacies of Glen Canyon and Emily Inouye Huey and Kaye Kang’s Wat Kept Playing selected to Utah at National Book Festival in Washington, DC. The Utah Center for...

Utah Republicans celebrate ‘big, beautiful bill’ passage; health advocates dismayed
Jennifer Shutt, States NewsroomHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters inside the Capitol building in Washington., D.C., on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Utah Republican leaders celebrated the final passage of the “big, beautiful bill”...

Utah adopted 1 new clean energy policy or incentive in 2024
Utah implemented at least one new clean energy policy or incentive supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency in 2024, according to data from the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE). Since 2010, the state has...

Utah schools scramble to stretch last year’s federal money, in wake of Trump’s funding freeze
Utah school districts are scrambling to patch fall budgets this week after the Trump administration suddenly froze more than $35 million in federal K-12 funding for the state — part of a nationwide hold on $6.8 billion in education dollars. On...
Mexican citizen sentenced for carjacking USPS truck in Salt Lake City
Wilber Castellanos Hernandez, a 33-year-old undocumented Mexican citizen, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison following his guilty plea for carjacking a U.S. Postal Service truck and threatening the postal employee involved. U.S. District...

Utahns lost nearly $115 million to phone call fraud in 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Utahns lost nearly $115 million to fraud in the past year, with phone scams playing a major role in the financial damage, according to new data. The Federal Trade Commission reports that scam calls remain a persistent...

Red, white and blue pride: So where does Utah land in a national 'patriotism' poll?
WASHINGTON — Patriotism is an oft-spoken word around Independence Day — and whenever there are historic moments grabbing Americans' attention, such as U.S. military conflicts or a presidential election. With the Fourth of July holiday and the...

Utah reaction to passage of H.R. 1, the Big Beautiful Bill
SALT LAKE CITY — All of Utah’s congressional delegation voted yes on H.R. 1, or the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which passed the House of Representatives on Thursday with a vote of 218 to 214. Some Utahns praise passage of H.R. 1 praised In...

Darkness falls, stars rise in Utah’s national parks
Cedar Breaks International Dark Sky Park. Image: Mike Saemisch By Bryony Cottam Right now, we’re some 26,000 light years away from the centre of the Milky Way, on the edge of a spiral arm called the Orion Spur. From here on Earth, our galaxy...

Utah man wrongfully detained by immigration officials for nearly 50 days, attorney says
MILLCREEK — A Utah man is speaking out after spending nearly 50 days in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas, despite being a lawful U.S. resident. His attorney says the federal government got it wrong — and...

New technique aligns stem cells to boost healing power
A new way to grow stem cells may help them release more of the signaling proteins they use to repair tissue, potentially improving future treatments. Scientists have developed a technique that aligns stem cells into a single sheet, resulting in a...

Utahns gather to express concerns about President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
SALT LAKE CITY — President Trump’s massive domestic policy bill, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” narrowly passed in the Senate on Tuesday. Utahns gathered Wednesday evening to call and email Utah’s Congressional Delegation before those...

Giant radio telescope in the Utah desert could reveal hidden corners of the cosmos — and brand-new physics" target="_self"…
A gigantic array of radio dishes proposed for the Utah desert could advance our understanding of physics and help us decode cosmic radio signals. Now, scientists have outlined how it would work. Beginning in the 1950s, radio astronomy has opened...

Utah debuts state’s first AI-assisted MRI machine
SALT LAKE UTAH — Utah has its first AI-assisted MRI machine, allowing patients with metal implants to undergo scans safely for the first time. The scanner came online for the first time this month at the Utah MRI Research Center. With a wider...

How a church-run DNA donation led Michael to be falsely accused of murder
There was something about the way three police officers surrounded Michael Usry as they walked him from his New Orleans home to their car in 2014 that made him nervous. They'd told him on the phone they wanted to speak with him about a nearby...

Voices: A white-only vision of American valor fails us all. In Utah, we’re working to tell the whole story.
(Fort Douglas Military Museum) Buffalo Soldiers with the M1873 Springfield Trapdoor rifle. Members of the 24th Infantry, on campaign duty, are lined up with an experimental blanket roll they were testing for the U.S. Army, circa 1893. In recent...

Utah man wrongfully detained by ICE for nearly 50 days, attorney says
MILLCREEK — A Utah man is speaking out after spending nearly 50 days in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas, despite being a lawful U.S. resident. His attorney says the federal government got it wrong — and...