Utah Forecast Update: Heat Builds Through July 4th in Salt Lake City — 99°F...
Salt Lake City, Utah – Utah’s heat ramps up fast this week, with 97°F highs expected in Salt Lake City by Sunday afternoon and a blazing 99°F by Tuesday. The National Weather Service warns of extended exposure risks and urges residents to take precautions as the region enters a prolonged period of intense summer heat.
Rose Park Gardens Cultivate Community Growth
In Rose Park, the neighborhood garden grows more than vegetables. The space has become a hub for neighbors to come together across different generations and cultures through the shared act of gardening. In March 2024, Karina Lugo-Villalba, the volunteer program coordinator at Wasatch Community Gardens and a community...
‘Every Kid Outdoors’ program reaches out to refugee teens
MORGAN — About 40 refugee teens spent three days at a special camp designed to help them try Utah's great outdoors. Their days included activities that many of them have never done before. Some of those were as simple as camping, hiking and making s'mores. The group spent Friday...
Kids take initiative to raise money for 2-year-old cancer patient by selling bracelets
BOUNTIFUL — A group of young children goes outside almost every day to set up a stand and sell bracelets and other things they make — but not to earn money for themselves. They are raising funds to help a young cancer patient. Bay Killam, 13, said they...
Against the odds, Gen Z is breaking into the housing market
SALT LAKE CITY — Despite daunting market conditions, America's youngest generation of adults is managing to break into the housing market in growing numbers. Members of Generation Z, the cohort between the ages of 13 and 28, came of age during the economic upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the years since, home...
Photographer launches ethical photography program to help Utah wildlife thrive
SYRACUSE — If you happened to visit Antelope Island on a Saturday this month, you may have seen a group of teenagers photographing wildlife. More than a dozen youth participated in a new Utah Wildlife Federation program in Syracuse to learn from four wildlife photographers who took them out to Antelope Island and...
Pickup truck fire causes delays on I-15 NB in South Salt Lake
SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — A GMC truck caught fire on I-15 Northbound near mile marker 304 in South Salt Lake Saturday afternoon. The fire happened when the truck, which was hauling a trailer carrying a side-by-side, rolled over and ended up positioned across multiple lanes, causing significant delays,...
Multiple trailers, semi trucks burn in Salt Lake City blaze
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 28, 2025 (Gephardt Daily) — Salt Lake City Fire Department investigators are working to determine the cause of a Friday afternoon blaze that burned “multiple tractors and semi trucks” on the city’s west side. According to an online statement from the...
Bird-watching: How one of the country’s most popular hobbies engages Utahns
HERRIMAN — On a recent Sunday morning, a group of 10 bird-watchers leisurely made their way up Yellow Fork Canyon near Herriman in southwest Salt Lake County as they looked and listened for different birds in the area. The bird walk started in the trailhead's parking lot, and as...
Buffalo Soldiers in Utah finally getting their due
From 1878 to 1901, two all-Black U.S. Army regiments played a positive role in helping keep the peace in the Beehive State.