Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah  – The Weber County Sheriff’s Office is welcoming a new member to its K-9 team. Meet Midas, a year-and-a half old Fox Red Labrador. Midas is training as an explosive detection dog. “We have a very well rounded K-9 unit that serves the citizens of Weber County,” says Lt. Cortney Ryan of the Weber County Sheriff’s Office. Ryan says Midas is a great addition to the K-9 team which now consists of two dual certified, drug and apprehension dogs, one single purpose narcotics detection, one electronic detection and now an explosive detection dog.

OGDEN, Utah — A large contingent of Ogden citizens spoke out during a City Council meeting this week, decrying the city’s recent dispersal of a homeless encampment near the Lantern House. In mid-December, Ogden police and others worked to remove the makeshift camp, which was formed with tents and other structures and had been set up just outside of the Lantern House homeless shelter on 33rd Street, west of Wall Avenue.