<strong>THUMBS UP:</strong> Happy New Year from the staff at the Standard-Examiner. We hope 2020 is filled with progress on Northern Utah's utmost issues, from insightful planned development to improvement on roads and construction, and uplifting those in our ...

<strong>THUMBS UP:</strong> It might have just squeaked in, but many in Utah (though not all) saw a White Christmas this week. Welcome, snow!<strong>THUMBS DOWN:</strong> It was sad news to hear that a gentleman in Cache County was in such ...

In an article today by Standard-Examiner reporter Tim Vandenack, we learned about a recent push by local residents to help retired first responders — namely retired firefighters in Northern Utah.The problem, we’re only now realizing as a community, is that we demand the services of these ...

<strong>THUMBS UP:</strong> We don't think residents could be more excited for the news released Thursday on construction near Hill Air Force Base's Roy gate as it prepares for an increase in jobs to the area. It doesn't need stating, but base traffic has only room ...

We’ve got a whopping thumbs down this week for air quality. We’re all guilty parties in this, and we literally have to live with it. It was so poor along the Wasatch (Davis and Weber included) that planes were redirected as they couldn’t land in Salt Lake City amidst the trapped fog and ...

<strong>THUMBS UP:</strong> A bill is making its way through Congress, originating with Utah Rep. Ben McAdams, working to provide greater relief to victims of Ponzi schemes. Utah is thoroughly acquainted with this kind of white collar crime of fraud. After all, it's ...