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Park City skier named to Adaptive Sports Hall of Fame
Dennis Romboy, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 11 - 10:30 p.m. | Save Story
Nancy Gustafson started skiing at age 2 and racing at age 6 at Bousquet Ski Area near her home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She attended the ski racing academy at Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont for four years as a teenager.
Holiday spending set records despite consumer pessimism
Art Raymond, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 11 - 8:34 p.m. | Save Story
In the face of an economy beset by persistent inflation and skyrocketing housing costs, a majority of Americans told pollsters that fiscal concerns would lead to tighter spending budgets at the start of the 2025 winter holiday shopping season.
Louisiana man charged with fraud in Utah warrant scam
Pat Reavy, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 7:45 p.m. | Save Story
A Louisiana man is facing charges in Utah accusing him of tricking another man into sending him thousands of dollars by falsely claiming a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
Report: About ½ of Utah's third graders struggle with reading — so what can be done?
Jason Swensen, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 11 - 7:11 p.m. | Save Story
Literacy is fundamental in determining a child's educational success and academic future.
Concerns rise over possible damage to graves during Salt Lake City Cemetery roadwork
Garna Mejia, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 6:30 p.m. | Save Story
A $14.5 million roadway improvement project at the Salt Lake City Cemetery is prompting concern from residents who fear construction equipment may be damaging historic gravesites and burial grounds.
Lone survivor of West Valley family shooting dies unexpectedly at age 19
Payton Davis, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 5:51 p.m. | Save Story
The only family member to survive a West Valley shooting that claimed the lives of his parents and his three siblings in 2024 died Sunday at age 19.
Sister of slain Utah woman shares emotional struggle 1 year later
Curtis Booker, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 5:00 p.m. | Save Story
Family of Summer Roney, who police found dead in her ex-boyfriend's car on New Years Eve 2024, reflects on their loss, grief one year later.
GOP House leaders want to add justices to the Utah Supreme Court
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 3:00 p.m. | Save Story
Top Republicans in the Utah House are looking to expand the state's judiciary and add transparency measures to the court system in the upcoming legislative session.
Study: Utah could expand child care offerings, women's workplace advancement opportunities
Logan Stefanich, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 12:04 p.m. | Save Story
A new Utah Women and Leadership Project study suggests Utah employers and policymakers could do more to expand child care offerings.
A group of Utah moms channel their inner child, create friendships through sledding
Arianne Brown for KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 10:04 a.m. | Save Story
Every Tuesday in the winter, seven Salt Lake County women, all over the age of 40, go sledding together. They say it's been a way to channel their inner child and deepen friendships.
Cutting down on telemarketing calls: How to avoid spam calls
Sarah Martin, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 8:35 a.m. | Save Story
Almost everyone has been caught off guard by a spam call, with telemarketers trying again and again to grab a person's attention, and seniors are most vulnerable. Here's what you can do to protect yourself.
Utah, the state that wants to unplug America's schools
Brigham Tomco, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 11 - 7:15 a.m. | Save Story
The state of Utah plans to transform the trajectory of K-12 education by taking a giant step backward.
AI technology set to transform drug prescription renewals in Utah
Art Raymond, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 10 - 10:34 p.m. | Save Story
Utah's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy just announced its approval of a pilot effort for an AI-driven platform that provides select prescription renewal services, but medical experts are still wary.
1970 southern Utah cold case reopened; detectives prepping to exhume remains
Pat Reavy, KSL | Posted Jan. 10 - 9:04 p.m. | Save Story
Utah's Washington County Sheriff's Office is preparing to exhume the remains of a woman whose body was found in 1970 in an effort to identify her and determine her cause of death.
Utah wildlife experts work to protect, propagate Bonneville cutthroat trout
Robert Williamson for KSL | Posted Jan. 10 - 8:31 p.m. | Save Story
Utah Division of Wildlife fisheries biologists planted 2,258 small Bonneville cutthroat trout in Beus Creek in Weber County this past fall as part of their efforts to establish wild, self-sustaining populations of Utah's state fish.
Anti-ICE protesters march in Salt Lake City and across the country
Rebecca Santana, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 10 - 7:27 p.m. | Save Story
Hundreds marched in downtown Salt Lake City Saturday, joining hundreds of other demonstrations across the country protesting the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
How BYU phenom AJ Dybantsa fits into the church's long love affair with basketball
Lee Benson, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 10 - 7:05 p.m. | Save Story
His story is well known even among people who don't watch "SportsCenter." Because it isn't every day the top recruit in the country chooses BYU over basketball elites like North Carolina and Kansas.
Logan warming center seeks funding for more staff as winter demand increases
Curtis Booker, KSL | Posted Jan. 10 - 6:32 p.m. | Save Story
Leaders of the William A. Burnard Warming Center in Logan say they need $20,000 for additional staff as demand increases.
BYU students sweep nominations for College Television Awards
Cassidy Wixom, KSL | Posted Jan. 10 - 5:03 p.m. | Save Story
Brigham Young University represented Utah well with 17 students garnering nominations at the Television Academy Foundation's 45th College Television Awards.
Business & Tech »
Fed's Powell says administration threatened him with criminal indictment over Senate testimony
- Holiday spending set records despite consumer pessimism
- Concerns rise over possible damage to graves during Salt Lake City Cemetery roadwork
- Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot
- Sluggish hiring closes out a frustrating year for job seekers though unemployment slips to 4.4%
Education »
Report: About ½ of Utah's third graders struggle with reading — so what can be done?
- Utah, the state that wants to unplug America's schools
- How BYU phenom AJ Dybantsa fits into the church's long love affair with basketball
- Summit County reports its first case of measles in elementary school student
- 'This is Her Place, too': Study measures Utahns' perceptions of women's workplace challenges
Politics »
The cost of living is eating Utah's 'Utahness.' Here's the GOP plan to save it
- Homeland Security to send hundreds more officers to Minnesota, Noem says
- Fed's Powell says administration threatened him with criminal indictment over Senate testimony
- Cuba defiant after Trump says island to receive no more Venezuelan oil or money
- GOP House leaders want to add justices to the Utah Supreme Court
Religion »
President Oaks dedicates first temple as church president in Burley, Idaho
- How BYU phenom AJ Dybantsa fits into the church's long love affair with basketball
- Man killed outside church had embraced faith and nonviolence, community leader says
- President Uchtdorf now acting president of Quorum of the 12 Apostles, church announces
- Heartbreak for Utah County family after missionary son dies suddenly in New Mexico
Science »
Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot
- Fears of an AI bubble were nowhere to be found at the world's biggest tech show
- AI technology set to transform drug prescription renewals in Utah
- FCC approves SpaceX plan to deploy an additional 7,500 Starlink satellites
- Doctors say changes to US vaccine recommendations are confusing parents, could harm kids
