When a lineup of African entrepreneurs took the stage at a recent BYU business conference, the conversation moved quickly from balance sheets to something more surprising: how cryptocurrency is reshaping entire industries a continent away. For Utah Valley students and business watchers used ...
The moment a nonstop route pops up on the Provo Airport departure board, Utah Valley travelers start doing the math in their heads. A short hop instead of a connection through Salt Lake or Las Vegas changes the whole calculus of a weekend trip. Breeze Airways' service from Provo to Hollywood ...
For a lot of households across Utah Valley, the entertainment budget is the line item nobody talks about until it quietly balloons. Groceries, the mortgage, the car payment on that Sunday Drive test vehicle — those get scrutinized down to the dollar. But the fun money, the cash that flows ...
Free-to-play gaming apps have become ubiquitous on smartphones, offering players the chance to try their luck without real-money commitments. Operators position sweepstakes casino games differently from traditional gambling, though how that framing holds up varies by state and remains ...
Social casinos are becoming increasingly popular. Using in-game currency, they let people play without having to invest their own funds. A social casino is a platform that allows users to play the games you would find in any online casino, ranging from table games to slots, crash gaming, ...
Utah is one of only two states whose constitution bans every form of wagering, so there is no lottery kiosk in a Provo gas station and no casino floor anywhere between Lehi and Nephi. Yet open the app store on a phone in Utah Valley and the top-grossing charts are stacked with slot-style ...
Here is what changed this year, in one line: a second Canadian province opened a licensed online casino market, giving players north of the border two open systems to compare instead of one. Readers in Utah Valley know the other end of that spectrum well, since Utah is one of only two states ...
Across Utah Valley, a quiet habit has taken hold: neighbors gathering on Saturday mornings to pull invasive weeds along the Provo River, families sorting recycling with the same care they give their gardens, and congregations organizing cleanup days that fill pickup beds with trash hauled ...
The online casino business keeps adding new ground in 2026, and a lot of that new ground sits close to Utah. Colorado turned on legal sports betting after a 2020 vote. Arizona opened retail and mobile sportsbooks in the fall of 2021. Wyoming switched on an online-only sports betting market the ...
Most Western states embraced casino gambling as another way to attract visitors and grow local economies. With the expansion of regulated markets, online slots became one of their biggest attractions. Utah made a different choice and has defended it for more than a century, even as new forms of ...
