Author: Mariah Wheeler

Ogden, UTAH – According to the state officials, this is reportedly a new tool highlighting the success of the Invasive Species Mitigation Weed Control Program. In the past three years alone, the ISM program has funded 118 projects treating over 3.3 million across the state through 4.7 million dollars in funding. Noxious weeds compete directly with beneficial native plants and can cause devastating impacts to agriculture, wildlife habitat, native ecosystems, and increase wildfire fuel loads to catastrophic levels.  These weeds cost an estimated $26.4 billion per year in agricultural economic losses in the United States. All of Utah’s 29 counties face…

Ogden, UT – According to the state officials, this interchange provides a new crossing over US-89 to connect neighborhoods on both sides of the highway and will help traffic flow more safely and smoothly. Utah Senate President Stuart Adams, Representative Stephen Handy, and Layton Mayor Joy Petro, along with Oak Hills Constructors (the US-89 contractor) and Layton city officials, joined UDOT Executive Director Carlos Braceras this morning to celebrate the opening of the new interchange. It is the fourth and final new interchange built as part of the current US-89 reconstruction in eastern Davis County. Interchanges at 400 North in…