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Families reinvent Christmas traditions due to lack of snow
Lisa Lete, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted Dec. 26 - 9:00 p.m. | Save Story
With little to no snow blanketing much of eastern Idaho this holiday season, many families were forced to rethink Christmas traditions typically built around sledding, skiing and snowmobiling.
Idaho family asks community for help with child's cerebral palsy treatment
Cody Roberts, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted Dec. 26 - 6:30 p.m. | Save Story
An Idaho family is seeking community support to fund their son's cerebral palsy treatment.
Returning your Christmas gifts? Here's some things you should know
Caitlin Keith, Deseret News | Posted Dec. 26 - 5:07 p.m. | Save Story
Now that Christmas is over and many have received gifts that they love and some gifts that they don't love as much, some of those gifts need to be returned.
Have You Seen This? Horse displays majestic mane while pulling carriage
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL | Posted Dec. 26 - 3:30 p.m. | Save Story
A Gypsy Vanner stallion showed off his majestic mane, worthy of a shampoo commercial, while pulling a carriage earlier this month.
Utah woman gives birth under Orem hospital's Christmas tree in the lobby
Ray Boone, KSL | Posted Dec. 26 - 2:59 p.m. | Save Story
Jaxson Largo was born under a Christmas tree in the lobby of Orem Community Hospital.
Salt Lake City breaks Christmas record; winter weather advisories issued across Utah
Carter Williams, KSL | Updated Dec. 26 - 7:41 a.m. | Save Story
Christmas will remain warm and windy across the state, but a dose of more seasonal weather is on tap for this weekend.
Making a music video for rapper in Hawaii led Idaho couple to launch video production company
Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted Dec. 26 - 7:04 a.m. | Save Story
Daniel and Sarah Guthmiller are the owners of Film Garage 208, a video production and marketing agency in Idaho Falls.
At 93, Draper man finds health and happiness in giving
Emma Benson, KSL | Posted Dec. 25 - 5:45 p.m. | Save Story
This Christmas, giving back may do more than spread holiday cheer. Experts say volunteering and acts of kindness can enhance your physical and mental well-being. Lowell Baum, 93, has seen those benefits firsthand.
Have You Seen This? Shaqtin' a fool this Christmas
Carter Williams, KSL | Posted Dec. 25 - 3:32 p.m. | Save Story
Shaq channeled Kool-Aid Man's signature wall-breaking entrance this Christmas.
Roller hockey community raising funds for new Pocatello rink
Logan Ramsey, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted Dec. 25 - 2:43 p.m. | Save Story
A community of hockey players in Pocatello have secured land for a new roller rink, but they need to raise the money to build it.
Massachusetts students build wind phone that connects grieving family with lost loved ones
Matt Reed, WCVB via CNN Newsource | Posted Dec. 25 - 1:25 p.m. | Save Story
In a corner of Somerset, Massachusetts, there is a sound that seems out of place. A rotary phone in a small wooden structure, allowing the living to connect with those not on the other line, but on the other side.
Gray wolves one step closer to losing federal protection
Kevin Lind, Deseret News | Posted Dec. 25 - 11:17 a.m. | Save Story
The U.S. House passed a bill last week removing federal protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states.
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is ... a giant gingerbread man?
Cassidy Wixom, KSL | Posted Dec. 25 - 8:31 a.m. | Save Story
What started as just a silly idea in a group chat has become a movement connecting an entire community. And at the heart of it all are 20-foot tall blow-up gingerbread men.
North Ogden Divide to get gates to enable closure for avalanches in bad weather
Tim Vandenack, KSL | Posted Dec. 25 - 7:10 a.m. | Save Story
The North Ogden Divide, the mountainous road east of North Ogden, will install gates to close in the event of avalanches or hazardous driving conditions.
'The best gift ever': Baby is born after the rarest of pregnancies, defying all odds
Laura Ungar, Associated Press | Updated Dec. 24 - 9:40 p.m. | Save Story
Doctors say just one in 30,000 pregnancies occurs in the abdomen instead of the uterus. And Ryu Lopez is among the rare cases. He developed outside his mom's womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian cyst.
SLC to NYC: Utah dancers perform in Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular
Cassidy Wixom, KSL | Posted Dec. 24 - 8:00 p.m. | Save Story
Two Utah dancers are living the dream, performing in New York City with the Radio City Rockettes, the iconic dance group that is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
The only thing worse than eggnog is your hot take
Emma Pitts, Deseret News | Posted Dec. 24 - 7:01 p.m. | Save Story
As families gather around holiday feasts to celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of the next, let us not forget: 'Tis the season to be jolly, not pessimistic.
Glenn Beck's daughter, who has ties to eastern Idaho, featured in new Christmas movie
Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted Dec. 24 - 6:15 p.m. | Save Story
The 20-year-old daughter of conservative radio host Glenn Beck was cast in her first film role that premiered over the weekend.
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Joshua McElwee, Reuters | Updated Dec. 24 - 5:37 p.m. | Save Story
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.
Arts & Entertainment »
Woman of Nicaraguan descent wins inaugural Miss Utah Latina Imagen pageant
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- SLC to NYC: Utah dancers perform in Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular
- Glenn Beck's daughter, who has ties to eastern Idaho, featured in new Christmas movie
- Would Shakespeare give a thumbs-up to the film 'Hamnet'? A University of Utah professor's take
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Tooele's Little Mountain Christmas tree stands as a beacon of community spirit
- Remembering Utah's epic snowstorms: Here's the top 6 that made history
- Church returns petroglyphs removed from Utah-Idaho border 80 years ago to Shoshone Nation
- Camp Floyd's 'Spirit of the Season' shows how soldiers celebrated holidays 160 years ago
- $3K reward offered as Utah investigates theft of human skull at ancient burial site
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