Tim Vandenack
Utah Pride Center cuts spending for festival, operating on 'leaner model' to address money issues
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted May 1 - 5:32 p.m.
The Utah Pride Center faced financial uncertainty after the 2023 parade and festival but has scaled back costs and operations as the 2024 festival looms to address the money situation.
Have You Seen This? Conductor films EF-3 tornado as it passes over his train
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted May 1 - 3:27 p.m.
A conductor in his stopped train in Nebraska as an EF-3 tornado passed overhead filmed the close encounter.
'We truly want these educators': Utah officials reach out to immigrants to fill need for teachers
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted May 1 - 8:05 a.m.
Utah Board of Education officials helped host a workshop meant to help immigrants navigate the process of converting their foreign credentials into Utah teaching licenses.
Hill Aerospace Museum's $22M expansion complete, opens to public on Thursday
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 29 - 10:32 p.m.
Hill Air Force Base and Hill Aerospace Museum officials ceremoniously unveiled a $22 million, 91,000-square-foot addition to the museum, which boosts indoor space at the facility by 70%.
Weber County inland port project foes press for more study as decision date nears
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 29 - 8:33 p.m.
Foes worried about the environmental impact of the proposed Weber County inland port project are pushing for more study into the plans as the date nears to formally consider the project.
Ute Mountain Utes call for new look at 1923 violence in Bears Ears area, seek healing
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 29 - 6:17 a.m.
For six weeks in 1923, numerous Utes were held in a stockade in Blanding as part of the so-called Last Indian War. Now, Ute leaders are calling for a new look at what happened.
Utahn taps Q'eqchi' skills to help feds handle influx of Indigenous minors from Guatemala
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 28 - 7:10 p.m.
Jace Norton learned Q'eqchi' while serving a mission to Guatemala and parlayed his skills into a company that helps federal officials contend with unaccompanied minors from the nation.
'A dream I always had': Somos Foundation scholarships helping Latinos go to college
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 26 - 9:09 p.m.
The Somos Foundation has helped more than 800 Latino students over the years with scholarship money and announced the latest 20 recipients at an event on Thursday.
Weber County thrilled with Snowbasin pick, still hopeful Ice Sheet will be Olympic site
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 26 - 1:11 p.m.
Weber County officials are happy Snowbasin ski resort has been picked as a proposed site for the 2034 Olympics and hold out hope the Ice Sheet, host site for curling in 2002, will also be a location.
Palestinian advocates build Salt Lake memorial for Palestinians killed in Israel-Hamas war
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 25 - 8:39 p.m.
A contingent of pro-Palestinian advocates is installing a memorial to Palestinians killed in the Israel-Hamas war at the Salt Lake City-County Building.
Weber County leaders mulling scaled-back $30.8M jail upgrade plan
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 25 - 7:13 p.m.
After failure of a ballot question last November calling for up to $98 million in bonding for jail upgrades and a new sheriff's office structure, Weber County officials are considering a scaled-back plan.
'We're not criminals, we're workers': Day laborers say sometimes they have no other work options
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 24 - 8:03 a.m.
Undocumented immigrants in Utah sometimes gather outside locales like Home Depot seeking work, drawing fire from some, though they do so because they say they have no other options.
New, improved I-15 interchanges in the works in Farmington, Sunset and Ogden
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 23 - 8:04 a.m.
UDOT has started work on a new I-15 interchange in Farmington. Plans are in the works for new or improved interchanges at 1800 North in Sunset and 24th Street in Ogden.
Utah's Jews harbor mixed feelings on Passover's eve as Mideast fighting continues, antisemitism rises
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 21 - 10:17 a.m.
With Passover to start Monday, Utah's Jewish community is alternately troubled at a spike in antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and resolute in marking the holiday.
Ogden man discovers items from the Spanish-American War: 'It's piqued our curiosity'
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 20 - 9:10 p.m.
While renovating a home, Jeremy Peterson found hardtack with handwritten notes on it, indicating it came from a Black soldier who fought in the 1898 Spanish-American War.
Utah law aimed at diversity programs puts future of university 'affinity celebrations' in doubt
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 19 - 12:01 p.m.
Graduation celebrations by Latinos, the LGBTQ community and others attending Utah's universities can proceed this spring, but officials are parsing HB261 to determine whether they can continue next year.
Commissioner: Adjusting to Utah's diversity bill may 'hurt,' but schools can 'make it successful'
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 18 - 12:00 p.m.
Utah Commissioner of Higher Education Geoffrey Landward addressed moves to adjust to the new state law revamping diversity programs, HB261, noting both challenges and possibilities.
Utah audit recommends better planning to bolster Ogden airport, a money-loser for 17 years
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 18 - 10:02 a.m.
An audit shows Ogden leaders should track whether efforts to bolster the Ogden-Hinckley Airport's fortunes actually yield results to help counter its annual losses.
'A phenomenal achievement': Ogden's 25th Street places 3rd in Best Main Street contest
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 17 - 7:34 p.m.
Ogden's 25th Street took third place in USA Today's readers poll of the Best Main Street in the country.
As old Ogden wildlife rehab center building comes down, dinosaur park expansion edges ahead
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 16 - 12:00 p.m.
The Wildlife Rehabilitation Center moved to new space to make way for the George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park expansion, and demolition has commenced on the old rehab center building.
Utah immigrant advocates blast anti-illegal immigration talk as 'fearmongering,' 'dehumanizing'
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 14 - 7:03 p.m.
Many Utah politicos have focused on illegal immigration and the harm they say it's causing, but immigrant advocates seek to offer a more nuanced view.
GOPers in Salt Lake, Weber, Davis counties call for halt in use of ERIC to maintain voter lists
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 14 - 2:57 p.m.
Republicans in the three Wasatch Front counties approved resolutions asking the Utah Lt. Governor's Office to stop using the ERIC system, which is under fire in other GOP-led states.
Ogden schools implementing mariachi program: 'It represents the culture of our community'
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 14 - 12:04 p.m.
Ogden School District will be implementing mariachi classes into the curriculum at a high school and two junior high schools.
Washington Terrace, South Ogden bird advocates push for permission to keep backyard chickens
Tim Vandenack, KSL.com | Posted April 13 - 7:23 a.m.
The backyard chicken issue has been debated previously in Washington Terrace and South Ogden, the only Weber County locales that don't allow them, advocates say. Now it's lurching forward again.
