Business

Small businesses struggle to compete with big online businesses because local products do not appear on Google Search. A group of BYU students created a startup to fix that problem.

"Now Hiring!" "Join our team!" "Apply Inside!" Signs, flyers, and posters like these have popped up in front of businesses all around Utah County as evidence the local economy is seeing the same shortage of workers that has been widely reported nationwide.

Many small businesses who sell at local farmer's markets in Provo feel that social media is now a major part of being a successful business.

The gender pay gap in Utah still ranks nearly dead last in the United States.

Three Utah cities cracked the top 10 of the most overpriced housing markets in the entire United States: Provo, Salt Lake City and Ogden. Using decades of data from Zillow, two researchers at Florida Atlantic University calculated that home buyers of those cities are paying on average 44% more than current housing price trends estimate.

Two Utah women are bringing the state's women of color entrepreneurs together through monthly small business markets called Strength in Shades.