No meat. No cheese. No problem at Salt Lake City's Vegan Food Truck Round-up
The state’s first Vegan Food Truck Round-up takes place Saturday, Oct. 7, in Salt Lake City.Six food trucks will serve everything from vegan hot dogs and nachos to falafel and churros from 11:30 a.m....
View ArticleMuseum’s market brings best of American Indian Art to Utah
Learn more about native arts, crafts and culture during the fifth annual Indian Art Market at the Natural History Museum of Utah.This juried show and sale runs Oct. 14 and 15 and will feature 20 native...
View ArticleGoogle unveils Home smart speakers to counter Amazon, Apple
San Francisco • Google is introducing different sizes of its internet-connected speaker to compete against similar devices from Amazon and Apple.The Google Home Mini unveiled Wednesday is a...
View ArticleWestern guvs pledge to create regional recharging network for electric cars
Western governors agreed Wednesday to work together to create a network of recharging stations to allow electric vehicles to travel easily along the 5,000 miles of freeways in their region.The...
View ArticleVatican to host youth summit to hear doubts, criticism from Catholics, other...
Vatican City • Pope Francis wants to hear firsthand from young people about their “doubts and criticisms” in the run-up to a big meeting of bishops on how the Catholic Church can better minister to...
View ArticleCommentary: OK, politicians, your ‘thoughts and prayers’ after shootings...
It has become a sort of twisted American ritual: A lone white male shooter opens fire on a crowd of people. Americans cry out for someone to do something and are met with shoulder shrugs, mumblings...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: When Facebook and Google are 'weaponized,' the victim is...
Well-intentioned warnings to journalists were circulating early this week as the news of the Las Vegas massacre broke.The Society of Professional Journalists urged accuracy, fairness and...
View ArticleDonovan Mitchell, Raul Neto to sit out for Jazz against Maccabi Haifa
It had to happen sometime.The Utah Jazz enjoyed one week of training camp without injury, but that will change for Wednesday night’s game against Maccabi Haifa. The team reported at shootaround that...
View ArticleHouse Republicans, including Rep. Bishop, seek travel records for 3 Interior...
Washington • Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee are asking the Interior Department to provide documents on use of private charter flights for government business by the past three...
View ArticleForecasters say Utah might take a break from its ‘perennial drought’ in the...
As Oct. 1 marks the start of a new water season, there’s a lot to celebrate in Utah’s good fortune.Cumulative precipitation totals across the state ended the year at or above normal, and Utah’s...
View ArticleUtahn Brian Steed to be deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management
Washington • Brian Steed, a Utahn who has served as Rep. Chris Stewart’s chief of staff, has been appointed the deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees most of the public...
View ArticleAre you a cop who has lied on the job? Salt Lake County prosecutors want to...
Police officers in Salt Lake County soon will have to answer questions about their truthfulness, biases and disciplinary history before taking the witness stand.Starting next Monday, the prosecutor’s...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Professor does magic for refugees. You can, too.
In September, 2015, a picture of a toddler in a red T-shirt, blue shorts and little sneakers went viral. The picture was of Aylan Kurdi and he was the 3-year-old found face-down on a beach in Turkey....
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ gets crazier — and she‘s out for revenge
Things are about to get crazy on “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”Sure, when the show debuted in 2015, Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) quit her job at a New York law firm and moved to California to win the heart of...
View ArticleTrump visits Vegas shooting victims: 'Amazing people'
Las Vegas • President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump met privately with victims of the Las Vegas shooting at a hospital Wednesday, praising them and the doctors who treated them as he...
View ArticleArrested drunk man claims he time traveled to Wyoming to warn of aliens
Casper, Wyo. • Police say a central Wyoming man they arrested for public intoxication claimed he had traveled back in time to warn of an alien invasion.Casper police say the man they encountered at...
View ArticleBodycam footage shows SLC officer fatally shooting fleeing Utah man; D.A....
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill has cleared a Salt Lake City police officer who fatally shot a man on Aug. 13, after the man allegedly pulled a knife and threatened to injure officers...
View ArticleUtah men’s basketball: Grad transfer Justin Bibbins aims to fit in during his...
One and done typically refers to a freshman planning on a short stay in college basketball. However graduate transfers with one final season of eligibility also join new programs each year. That easily...
View ArticleLeonard Pitts: ‘Thoughts and prayers’ for Las Vegas victims are not enough
There is, by now, a grim routine to all of this.That’s how frequently it happens, how unremarkable it has become in America for some lunatic with a gun to shoot up a public place: we have evolved a...
View ArticleWhy a bakery that makes granola with ‘love got a warning letter from the FDA
The ingredient list for Massachusetts-based Nashoba Brook Bakery’s granola was normal enough, save for one ingredient. Amid the oats and sweetener was “love.” The subject of nearly every rock-and-roll...
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