They are good for homeowners but bad for neighborhoods. They offer flexibility and extra income for families but harm surrounding property values and spawn parking problems. Those are just some of the conflicting sentiments surrounding the Salt Lake Ci... »
Asthma is no laughing matter, but Chris Ciancone thinks the inhalers he uses to administer medicine to his lungs are a joke. The Westminster College business student, with the help of three University of Utah engineering students, turned that frustrati... »
In conjunction with Earth Day on Sunday, Utahns participated Saturday in a variety of activities. The Ogden Nature Center, Hogle Zoo and Tracy Aviary sponsored Earth-friendly educational activities for kids and adults. The Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtab... »
The note left on the door for Brigham Young University professor James Birrell suggested he was in for a lecture. “Come see me immediately,” a department chair wrote to Birrell, a longtime elementary education professor who, among other duties, taught ... »
Murray • State Sen. Ben McAdams edged out fellow legislator Ross Romero on Saturday to lock up the Democratic nomination for Salt Lake County mayor. Meanwhile, Utah’s only openly gay legislator — freshman Rep. Brian Doughty — lost his bid for another t... »
Could strollers be hazardous to your kids’ health? A University of Utah graduate student and her professor say getting preschoolers out of their carriers could help reduce the childhood obesity epidemic. They’ve developed a fledgling social media campa... »
The number of families and friends who advocate for their lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender loved ones has grown in Utah. So much so that PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) will hold its first statewide conference on April 2... »
During a typical week, Realtor Dan Smuin drives all over the Salt Lake Valley showing homes, like a 5,000-square-foot place up Emigration Canyon with five bedrooms and lovely views of the path followed by 70,000 Zion-bound Mormon settlers a century and... »
Salt Lake City residents who want to score some extra income by adding a “mother-in-law” apartment to their homes — and others who want to stop their neighbors from doing so — have an opportunity to speak out Tuesday. The City Council will hold a publi... »
Salt Lake City’s recently redrawn school board map has prompted one newly eligible west-side challenger — and four overall challengers — to compete for the four district seats to be contested in November. Two of the city’s seven school district boundar... »
Brian Levin-Stankevich’s entire academic career has coursed through public universities on both sides of the nation, but this summer it comes full circle to the kind of school where it all began for him: a small private liberal arts college. Westminste... »
Westminster College trustees have selected Brian Levin-Stankevich, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, to be the 17th president of Salt Lake City’s small private liberal arts school. Some 60 candidates from around the country appl... »
After Taylor Green was hospitalized in first grade for mania, he and his mother didn’t know what to say to his friends. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the boy was struggling with his medications. He was out of control — running away from school and d... »
After Taylor Green was hospitalized in first grade for mania, he and his mother didn’t know what to say to his friends. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the boy was struggling with his medications. He was out of control — running away from school and d... »
Forgive Salt Lake City for feeling like a fighter who has slipped a punch: The pummeling Utah’s capital city predicted at the Legislature didn’t happen after all. The bad blood was there. It always courses near a boil between the conservative State Cap... »
