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Amid pomp and ceremony, the University of Utah broke ground on its new medical school building Wednesday, paying special tribute to Spencer Fox Eccles.

The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation has donated $5 million to Utah Olympic Park's mountain expansion project.

Not everyone in Utah is excited about hosting the 2030 or 2030 Olympics. Utahns have concerns about the impact on growth-related issues, especially affordable housing, in places like Park City. Advocates hope another Winter Games in Utah could spark funding for new projects.

Alex Smith said he “definitely” plans to return to Utah a lot now that he is retired, and joked that he has forgiven J.J. Watt, but his 8-year-old son “still holds a grudge.”

It was just a few minutes into the women’s mass start 15k at Soldier Hollow on Saturday. The start-finish area was a ghost town, save a few volunteers. But up on the hillside to the…

Community leaders as well as former and future Olympians met at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Tuesday for a commemorative lighting of the torch to celebrate 20 years since the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, while also looking forward with hope for the Games to return.

The funding comes from the prominent Eccles family.

The Spence Eccles Boys & Girls Club will serve youth living in the Rose Park and Fair Park communities. Wednesday’s opening celebration, delayed by the pandemic last year, included remarks from LeAnn Saldivar, outgoing president and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake, and Spencer F. Eccles, for whom the club is named.

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY — The Spence Eccles Boys & Girls Club held a ribbon-cutting for a safe haven where kids and teens in the Rose Park and Fair Park neighborhoods of Salt Lake City can grow, thrive and have fun. The kids and teens who live in this neighborhood near 600 West and North Temple have enjoyed this clubhouse for the past year but the pandemic postponed the dedication and ribbon-cutting until Wednesday. "What a beautiful building it is: its unlike any Boys & Girls Club on the plane...