Nothing better illustrates than the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health, the relentless appetite for state control and removal of personal choice that exists as much in academic circles as political ones. The report's contents are even more indigestible than its title.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told an international video conference that we face a battle of "humanity against the virus". How right that is - and the battle has started. According to Professor Nicholas Hart, one of the doctors who saved Mr Johnson's life, "COVID-19 is this generation's polio."

As Utah readies for a widescale reopening of some businesses and services on May 1, 177 new cases were counted, including 5 in the southwest district.

F-35 jets fly over Utah as tribute to workers on frontline of COVID-19 fight

Intermountain Healthcare is accepting donations of homemade cloth face coverings for visitors and non-frontline caregivers at hospitals and clinics.

The Southwest Utah health district counted its 100th case of COVID-19 on Friday, while the statewide total rose to 4,828.

A company which had contracts with Utah suspended over its founders past associations with white supremacists had an outside data deal, per reports.

Health officials counted nine new cases of COVID-19 in southwest Utah, although the Utah epidemiologist says infection rates are in decline.

Silver Reef Brewery adjusts production, provides sanitizer to St. George community

A coronavirus mortality model projects that nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August. The data has been revised and is now almost double previous projections, pushing the death toll in the US to over 200,000 by August.

The southwestern Utah health district counted seven new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus on Wednesday.

With businesses across Utah reopening on May 1, here is what returning to normalcy might mean for the health of St. George residents in the future

Members of Trail Hero and other local outdoor enthusiasts step up to keep Sand Hollow State Park clean after a wave of non-locals ended in vandalism.

Utah counted another 129 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus on Thursday, including four new cases in the southwestern health district.

Utah's four Republican governor candidates debated virtually on Washington County issues, including Trump, the coronavirus and Lake Powell Pipeline.

ProjectProtect has expanded its volunteer opportunities into Southern Utah.

EVERYBODY is familiar with the concept of a dashboard, which gives the driver of a car or aircraft an at-a-glance view of all their controls, allowing them to plot a course and check on their progress.

PENSION scam warnings have been issued by The Financial Conduct Authority and The Pensions Regulator after victims were scammed out of an average of £91,000. But how have people been duped by pension fraud?

O TEMPORA! O mores! One of the most senior figures in the Civil Service, Sir Philip Rutnam, calls a press conference to denounce his Minister, in this case the Home Secretary herself. How times have changed from when civil servants were anonymous and Ministers took the flak when things went wrong.

IT IS TIME that political interference with the police and the CPS ceased. One might have thought that after the ludicrous Operation Midland , the lesson had been learned.

I have been grateful for the restrained response of this government towards the coronavirus outbreak but the new proposal to lock down every single person over the age of 70 for three months, regardless of health and strength, seems woefully lacking in logic.

THIS is a story of two businesses and of two very different approaches to our current exigencies.The first concerns my local laundry CleanCall, which devised a means to keep going and contributing to the economy.

SO, BORIS, where is your land of liberty now? Where is proportionality and reason?

I'M QUITE enjoying this lockdown but I know just how blessed I am. I actively like solitude. I have the moors on my doorstep, a large garden, a job which I can do from home, a dependable pension, good health and a keyworker neighbour who can drop off fresh milk, bread and veg.

OH, FOR pity's sake! Death is stalking the country, the NHS is over-run, the economy is crashing on a seismic scale but Ofcom is pontificating about broadcaster Piers Morgan's mimicry of a Chinese accent calling it "offensive and racist". Get a life, dears!

BACK ON Wednesday, March 18, I wrote that as the overwhelming majority of people who were dying were reported as having underlying health conditions it would make sense to lock down anybody with such a condition and let the rest of us get on with keeping the economy and the volunteer effort going.

BY AND large I resist the temptation to roar at my TV screen but a few days ago, I did just that, when the tearful sister of twins who had died from the virus commented that she could not even be with her parents. Why the hell not? I shouted, feeling close to tears myself.

AT LAST there appears to be some momentum gathering behind what I have been saying for weeks: that it is wrong to lock down people on the grounds of age alone.

What you need to know about coronavirus, including what to do if you think you might be sick, how to keep you and your family safe and tips on what to do while staying home.

Here are quarantine-friendly ways to get mom a perfect gift for Mother's Day.

A since deleted video by Jimmy Kimmel alleges that Vice President Mike Pence delivered empty boxes of personal protective equipment.

"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend," Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement.

As the all-out effort for a vaccine accelerates, USA TODAY is rounding up some of the week's most notable developments.

Black and Latino community leaders are stepping in to help their own through the coronavirus crisis.

Football Helmet companies will have tight deadlines to recondition, recertify and redistribute helmets needed for youth and high school programs.

The lawyer for William "Roddie" Bryan, the Georgia man who recorded video of two white men shooting Ahmaud Arbery, says his client is not a vigilante.

In her first on-camera interview since Joe Biden denied her assault allegation, Tara Reade told Megyn Kelly it "changed everything about my life."

Airport temperature screenings mark latest discord between Trump administration and CDC over federal coronavirus response and science of public health

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Bloomington resident Craig Fehrman explored the history of U.S presidents' campaign books and memoirs for his first book, "Author in Chief."

Indianapolis art historian Sarah Urist Green presents more than 50 do-it-yourself projects in 'You Are an Artist' book

You can see this art in person while you social distance. The Harrison Center will send colorful "smoke" from its historic chimney for the first time.

The prolific and multi-Oscar-winning director Robert Wise always credited his Indiana roots for his strong work ethic in Hollywood.

Often overlooked, Benjamin Harrison gave us great national parks and forests.

Memories of our most beloved amusements