It's that time of year. Yes, we have to deal with it like it or not. It's time to control bagworms. They are easily recognizable. They build cone-shaped homes that hang like Japanese lanterns from the branches of whatever tree or bush they are devouring.

Prep softball: Box Elder, Murray among many 4A contenders By Kyle Goon The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 15, 2012 03:11PM MDT Some think experience is the most important factor in making a championship run. The Box Elder softball team wouldn’t agree. The team has only one senior, but has nevertheless been the revelation of the season. Behind pitchers Bailey Reeves and Abbey Martin, the Bees ...

They might not hang out on the corner of your yard, gambling, drinking and catcalling as you go by, but when it comes to disrupting the serenity of the garden, these bugs are thugs.

BRIGHAM CITY -- Mitch Zundel hates to see empty buildings. Like Tremonton's former La-Z-Boy plant, which in 2005 shifted its manufacturing operations to Mexico, leaving 630 residents of northern Utah out of a job. Or the last few years' layoffs at Corinne's ATK. "ATK has some empty buildings," he says. As Box Elder County's new director of economic development, that's his main responsibility ...

Prep track: Box Elder mourns death of coach Randall Gilbert By Bill Oram The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 15, 2012 09:52AM MDT A popular Box Elder High School track and football coach died Sunday evening from a medical condition, Principal Darrell Eddington said. Randall Gilbert was the head track coach, as well as a football assistant, “for years,” Eddington said. He was a physical education ...

Wagon Wheel Village mobile home court owner Bob Akers will return to the Box Elder Planning and Zoning Commission May 29 with more details about his plans to replace the existing 125 homes with 166 new modular units, city planning coordinator Mike McMahon said Tuesday.

The City of Box Elder has a new mayor, and a new interim police chief. Mayor William Griffiths defeated two term incumbent Al Dial in a very close race, 251 to 244 votes in the April election.

BOX ELDER -- The Box Elder City Council chose to move forward Tuesday with a small -- but vital -- part of a major road project, after it was expected to come in at more than $1 million over the anticipated cost.

Mountain Crest's Savannah Tolman reaches for the ball as Box Elder's Karly Bunderson dives toward 2nd base during the 5th inning of the game Thursday. (Jennifer Meyers/Herald Journal)

(KUTV) A solar eclipse takes place this weekend â but is it safe to look at? Dr. Jeff Pettey from the Moran Eye Center shares how you can safely view the solar eclipse. What type of damage comes from looking directly at the sun (short term and long term)? Eclipse viewers are available from the Clark Planetarium, the Leonardo or the Natural History Museum of Utah. ...