Society & Culture

Since there are so few boys in dance, they’re given special treatment and are raised to become leaders, said Southern Utah University dance professor Nancy Dobbs Owen. Girls, on the other hand, are told to fall in line.

The reality TV show “definitely challenges social norms within Utah and religious norms,” said cast member Miranda McWhorter.

El festival del Cinco de Mayo en Ogden ofreció música en vivo, vendedores y una exhibición de autos durante un soleado sábado en el centro. Pero asistentes y organizadores dicen que algunos miembros de la comunidad se quedaron en casa por temor a una redada migratoria.

Ogden's Cinco de Mayo festival brought live music, vendors and a car show to a sunny Saturday downtown. But attendees and organizers say some community members stayed home due to fears about an immigration crackdown.

The move to enshrine Utahn as the state demonym isn’t so much for residents as it is for national news outlets.

Michelle Rankin has worked for a year to make changes at Utah Valley University for women in accounting. She says she’s seen it working.

Utah isn’t just a hot spot for fantasy readers, the state has also produced several best-selling authors like Orson Scott Card and Shannon Hale.

There’s a cultural stigma in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that older, unmarried men are misfits or something’s wrong with them. A new mission change could signal to other members that single men belong.

It’s not always easy to make friends in a new place or when life changes, but these women have formed a group where “sisterhood, hiking and booze meet.”

A new research paper from Utah State University and BYU found that religiosity can improve body image, but it can also be detrimental. Here’s why.

New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but the conversations often lack a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected. Data collection on the number of LGBTQ+ people living in the U.S. has been relatively scant.

A recent NPR poll found that parents around the country are mostly happy with their kids’ schools. The data is limited in Utah. Here’s what we know.