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U.S. National Park Visitors Shocked By New NPS Revelation Since Trump Took Office
The Travel
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July 6, 2025
Many people believe the national parks of the United States have been in turmoil since the start of 2025, when President Donald Trump took office. At the beginning of the year, the Trump administration's cuts resulted in mass layoffs of National...
Walmart’s Open Call 2025 offers major opportunity for Utah entrepreneurs
TownLift - Utah
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July 1, 2025
Walmart during sensory-friendly hours. Photo: Walmart PARK CITY, Utah — Walmart’s Open Call is now accepting applications through July 25. This is Walmart’s annual event where U.S.-based small businesses pitch products made, grown, or assembled in...
Wildfire Risks Intensify in Utah
The Daily Utah Chronicle
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July 1, 2025
The Southern California wildfires of January 2025 shocked the nation as flames tore through thousands of acres, displaced citizens and reduced entire communities to ruins. Now, with Utah’s dry climate and increasingly extreme weather, the state...
Rocky Mountain MS clinic brings specialized care to Utah County with new Lehi location
Daily Herald - Utah
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1 / 2 The office inside Rocky Mountain MS Clinic in Lehi is shown in an undated photo. Courtesy Rocky Mountain MS Clinic 2 / 2 Patients, doctors and community members pose for a photo during the ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the new Lehi...
New Costco Cake Will Make Your Utah 4th of July
Star 98 - Southern Utah
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July 1, 2025
People online are raving about the new peaches & cream bar cake available now at Costco. If you want to make people happy at your 4th of July cookout and be among the cool kids, you need to bring this cake. Bar Cake was Introduced in June and Is...
Safe Sleep Strategies for Infants: What the Utah Data Shows
Cedar Valley Sentinel - Utah
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July 1, 2025
Each year in Utah, approximately 27 infants die suddenly and unexpectedly before their first birthday. That’s more than two babies per month who die this way. Almost all of these deaths occur in the baby’s sleep environment. These sudden...
Opinion: Don’t pull the plug on Utah’s advanced energy boom
Deseret News - Utah
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July 1, 2025
Looking at the energy projects under development across the Beehive State, I don’t see a distant policy debate. I see economic opportunity in motion. From Clearfield to Tooele, from Emery County to Utah County, our state is experiencing a surge in...
Supreme Court Ruling, UPenn Settlement Signal Major Shift on Transgender Issue
The Daily Signal - Washington D.C.
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July 6, 2025
In the final weeks of its 2024-25 term, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Tennessee’s restrictions on gender-affirming medical care for minors. The high court’s decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti preceded the University of Pennsylvania’s announcement on...
It’s the smallest bird native to North America. And it passes through Utah
Deseret News - Utah
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July 1, 2025
Hummingbirds migrate from Canada to southern Mexico through Utah in the summer. The calliope hummingbird is the smallest bird native to North America. Wildlife Resources is putting on a hummingbird banding demonstration in July. It’s about 3...
7 major reasons to watch The Chosen
Sportskeeda
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July 6, 2025
The Chosen began as a small crowd-funded project that gradually evolved into one of the most viewed faith-based series around the world. A character-driven portrayal of Jesus (played by Jonathan Roumie) and his earliest followers, it has done...
BYU grad is linked to this BYU legend like no one else. Here's the story
Deseret News - Utah
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July 6, 2025
Jared Price is short and never played college basketball, but he enjoys a tie that binds him to a tall man who did. The former engineer of AncestryDNA, which links people to their past, is connected to Cougar legend Kresimir Cosic like no other...
Guest opinion: Don’t pull the plug on Utah’s advanced energy boom
Daily Herald - Utah
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Kelcie Hartley, Daily Herald file photoUtah County Commissioner Amelia Powers Gardner Looking at the energy projects under development across the Beehive State, I don’t see a distant policy debate. I see economic opportunity in motion. From...
Opinion: Why absenteeism is quietly undermining education in Utah
Deseret News - Utah
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July 1, 2025
We measure so much in education — test scores, graduation rates, teacher performance — but often overlook one of the simplest, clearest indicators of academic success: showing up. Chronic absenteeism isn’t just a minor issue; it’s a growing...
How a 3,000-year-old beer from Ancient Egypt was revived
AS
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July 6, 2025
A history-loving homebrewer in suburban Utah has pulled off something few museums or universities have even attempted: reviving a beer that may have been the drink of choice of pyramid builders in Ancient Egypt over 3,000 years ago. Without the...
Scientists Discover 'Goblin Prince' That Roamed With Dinosaurs
ScienceAlert
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June 28, 2025
A newly discovered monstersaur roamed beneath the feet of giant dinosaurs. Paleontologists have described the new species as a giant Gila monster-like reptile, and bestowed on it a name fit for fantasy royalty. The new species has been named Bolg...
A massive golden spike sculpture is coming to northern Utah. Here’s how to see it
Utah Public Radio
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July 1, 2025
When two railroads met at northern Utah’s Promontory Summit in 1869, the country was joined from coast to coast for the first time — a connection sealed by a final spike, commonly known as the Golden Spike. Thousands of workers — those formerly...
Science ScienceAlert Scientists Discover 'Goblin Prince' That Roamed With Dinosaurs
Yahoo News
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A newly discovered monstersaur roamed beneath the feet of giant dinosaurs. Paleontologists have described the new species as a giant Gila monster-like reptile, and bestowed on it a name fit for fantasy royalty. The new species has been named Bolg...
US Measles Cases at an All-Time High After Disease 'Eliminated'
Newsweek
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July 6, 2025
The United States is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since the disease was declared "eliminated" in 2000, with 1,277 confirmed cases reported as of July 5, according to Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak Response Innovation. This...
NEMSIS 2024 Public-Release Research Dataset now available
EMS1 - Texas
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June 30, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY — The National Emergency Medical Services Information System Technical Assistance Center (NEMSIS TAC) has announced the release of the 2024 Public-Release Research Dataset, now the largest publicly available dataset of emergency...
Utah’s rental market expanding to meet demand, Gardner study finds
Salt Lake Business Journal - Utah
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June 28, 2025
Utah’s rental market is in the middle of an historic growth phase, bringing more housing options for renters and setting the stage for long-term opportunity for property owners and landlords, according to a new report from the Kem C. Gardner...