Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – Utah’s plan to test all college students weekly or biweekly for COVID-19 has been dropped. Then-Gov. Gary Herbert ordered the weekly testing in November; later it was amended to every other week. Colleges will now require students get tested once — at the beginning of the term — within 10 days of classes starting. Students who don’t comply could be assigned to entirely online courses. Utah’s Sunday caseload includes 2,276 positive COVID-19 infections among the 10,056 tests statewide, a 23 percent positivity rate the last 24 hours, which is low relative to recent positivity results. The state’s…

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OGDEN, Utah — In a 4-3 vote on Tuesday, a 12 year battle to change the zoning on 25th street was completed for Thaine Fischer. “I was very excited obviously 12 years we’ve been working on trying to get this to move forward,” the Ogden developer told FOX13. “It definitely is the heart of Ogden.” Previously Ogden had a law prohibiting more than 2 bars to be in a “Linear block” meaning both sides of the street. While this law may seem a bit strange to some, it was put into effect in the 1980’s because there were over 35…

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