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Catherine Rampell: Republicans have a plan to hurt blue states. It could...
Many blue states are in big, big trouble. Perhaps Republicans should be wary of causing them more, if they really think it through.The new Republican tax plan is, on the whole, a bunch of tax cuts...
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When it’s cold outside, Yoko Ramen in Salt Lake City has the big bowls of...
When the temperature plummets, people want one thing: a big bowl of steaming ramen.How do I know this? Because I was among the hungry horde that tried to cram into Yoko Ramen for lunch on a cold day in...
View ArticleReporters could get kicked out of CMA Awards if they ask country singers...
In Nashville, country singers have long been advised to keep their political opinions to themselves so they don't alienate fans. But after the Las Vegas massacre last month, when a gunman shot and...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Run or pass? Or can the Utes do both vs. UCLA?
The credit, or blame, for this angle goes to the Utah football fan who last spring tweeted about what may happen if Ute coach Kyle Whittingham fully authorized offensive coordinator Troy Taylor to...
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Prosecutors request more time to file charges in shooting death of University...
Charges against Austin Jeffrey Boutain — arrested in connection with the Monday night fatal shooting of a University of Utah student — have not been filed as of Friday morning, and likely will not come...
View ArticleSears is closing its store at 800 South and State Street in Salt Lake City —...
A Sears store that has been a presence for decades at 754 S. State St. in Salt Lake City will close in January.Its Sears Auto Center is going by the wayside next month.Their demise should not have any...
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Jennifer Rubin: The 'golden past' is a crock
In a speech receiving the Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of Britain, had some wise words on the state of politics in the...
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Newly identified orangutan species is the rarest great ape on the planet
Orangutans may be the oddest of our great ape relatives. The cinnamon-colored animals — the only great apes native to Asia — live nowhere else but Indonesia. Graceful when swinging through the rain...
View ArticleUtah teen pleads guilty to causing crash that killed two classmates and...
A Utah teen accused of causing a February crash that killed two of his West High School classmates and critically injured a pregnant woman and her baby has pleaded guilty to manslaughter...
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Your UCLA-Utah game guide: What to watch for when Utes meet Bruins
Time, Place and [Radio Waves in] Space • The Utes’ host UCLA in a Pac-12 Conference at Rice-Eccles Stadium at 7:30 p.m. (MDT) Friday. You can watch on FS1 or listen on ESPN 700 AM, Sirius 84/XM 84,...
View ArticleGov. Herbert appoints new Board of Pardons and Parole chairwoman
Gov. Gary Herbert on Friday appointed Chyleen Arbon as chairwoman of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole.Arbon — who has been a parole board member since 2012 — succeeds Angela Micklos, who has served...
View ArticleWeekly Run podcast: Bizarro Ricky Rubio is here to save the Utah Jazz
A shoot-first point guard who has struggled with turnovers and finished with just one assist? This isn’t the guy Jazz fans thought their team was getting when Dennis Lindsey traded for Ricky Rubio last...
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The few, the proud: Women Marines define themselves
It's never been easy to be a woman in the Marine Corps, which is the most physically demanding branch of the military and the one with the smallest percentage of female service members: 7.6 percent....
View ArticlePublic defender Amy Fowler, running for Salt Lake City Council, reports...
Salt Lake City Council District 7 candidate Amy Fowler filed a police complaint Thursday after receiving threatening and sexually explicit messages on social media.Fowler said she received three...
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Power of polygamous group wanes in tiny town among red rocks
Hildale • In a place where political contests are virtually unknown, the campaign signs offer the latest hint that a polygamous group is losing its grip on this remote red rock community straddling the...
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Can two-win BYU halt downward plunge? Fresno State has the blueprint
Provo • There is hope for BYU football fans who may be thinking that there is no way the program can rebound quickly from this abysmal season and return to its winning ways next year.The Cougars will...
View ArticleUtahns split on desire for more church transparency, but most active Mormons...
Utahns overwhelmingly want government and businesses to be more open, but they are less sure about whether churches need to lift veils of secrecy.While 93 percent of the state’s registered voters...
View ArticleJazz shootaround: Despite latest success, game-closing lineups will continue...
With 5:33 left in the fourth quarter against the Trail Blazers, Thabo Sefolosha subbed in for Derrick Favors, giving Utah a four-wing lineup. For the remaining 10:33 of game time until Utah won, there...
View ArticleFor the first time in five decades, ‘dry’ Blanding could drop its prohibition...
The southeastern Utah city of Blanding will decide this week whether to maintain its 50-year-old prohibition on booze or allow the sale of liquor as a way to boost tourism. While the issue may seen...
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Is southern Utah’s historic Bluff ready to become a town, a really BIG town?
Settled by Mormon pioneers in 1880 and inhabited centuries earlier by Ancestral Puebloans, Bluff is the oldest community in southeast Utah.Next week, Bluff residents will decide whether to become...
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