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Have you ever thought Utah is boring?

Think again. This is the state where you can see a spiral jetty, petroglyphs, coral pink sand dunes, salt flats, red rock, the best snow on Earth and a hundred other things.

Check out the list of 102 things to do in Utah.

Also on our mind: Why gas prices have been chilling for the last 10 weeks, how a new project to save Utah’s water supply features divers and why wolverines are now threatened by a federal decision.

Salt Lake City named preferred host for 2034 Olympics

Salt Lake City is closer than ever to hosting another Olympics.

Utah is the only contender to host the 2034 Winter Games after the International Olympic Committee Executive Board advanced the bid to the next stage of the new, less formal selection process.

A final vote on the hosts of the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games is expected next year, when the full membership of the Switzerland-based IOC meets ahead of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.

“We know how to do this. We know how to welcome people who are different than us,” Gov. Spencer Cox said during a celebration of the announcement on the steps of the Salt Lake City-County Building.

Read more about Salt Lake City's bidding process to host the 2034 Olympics.

Sen. Romney testifies at House Budget Committee hearing over his proposal to tackle $33 trillion in national debt

Sen. Mitt Romney insisted on solving the climbing U.S. national debt urgently and backed his proposal of creating a commission to tackle this problem in his testimony at the House Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday.

His latest legislation, the Fiscal Stability Act, which was cosponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., a close friend of Romney’s, would take on the national debt which now exceeds $33.8 trillion, more than double the amount it was a decade ago.

Manchin: “We must reverse this catastrophic financial demise of our own making before it is too late. We here in Congress have an obligation to get our finances in order so our children have the same shot at the American Dream that we did.”

Romney: “This is a decision we have, we’re either going to be known as a generation that took on tough challenges and solved them, or one that didn’t. We all lived in the shadow of the greatest generation.”

Read more about Romney's plan to tackle the national debt.

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Anisa Alamgir holds her daughter Zenattunlsa while waiting for food as Mosaic Inter-Faith Ministries hands out Thanksgiving meals in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

Read more about Mosaic Inter-Faith Ministries.

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