Religious leaders are urging Salt Lake City and county to finish housing plan...
Nearly three-dozen religious leaders are urging the city to complete its affordable housing plans and ensure the region has hundreds of units available to low-income residents before the downtown...
View ArticleRepublican Curtis outpaces Democrat Allen nearly 3-to-1 in campaign donations...
Provo mayor and Republican congressional candidate John Curtis has skated past his Democratic opponent — raising nearly three times more in donations over the last three months — with the most recent...
View ArticleUtah closes investigation into sheriff’s office accused of time card fraud,...
Farmington • Prosecutors won't file charges connected to auditors' findings that a sheriff's office north of Salt Lake City misspent public money and committed time card fraud.The Standard-Examiner...
View ArticleRaw sewage contaminating waters in Puerto Rico after Maria
Caguas, Puerto Rico • Raw sewage is pouring into the rivers and reservoirs of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. People without running water bathe and wash their clothes in contaminated...
View Article‘It’s not an acquittal,’ but a jury deadlocks on Utah real estate investor...
After deliberating for seven days, federal jurors on Monday afternoon announced that they were deadlocked over the allegations against former real estate guru Rick Koerber, who is accused of illegal...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake defender Tony Beltran’s season uncertain after knee injury
Right back Tony Beltran gingerly put weight on his right leg as he limped to the locker room, supported by RSL striker Yura Movsisyan and head trainer Tyson Pace.As they made their way down the...
View ArticleRally at Salt Lake City veterans hospital highlights thousands of job...
The union representing Department of Veterans Affairs employees is demanding the agency fill tens of thousands of vacant positions around the country to help boost veterans’ care and improve working...
View ArticleUtah takes big step toward bidding for 2026 or 2030 Winter Olympics
Jeff Robbins remembers the first pitch to — maybe, hopefully — bring the Olympics back to Salt Lake City one day.Robbins and a delegation from Utah were in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympics...
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Paul Mero: Bannon’s know-nothing philosophy should have no friends in Utah
Steve Bannon is an enemy of Utah. His Know-Nothing political philosophy is antithetical to the mainstream of Utah politics as are his apocalyptic strategies, scorched earth tactics and oddball...
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UTA — about $2 billion in debt — aims to borrow $88.5 million more
Nearly $1 of every $3 that the Utah Transit Authority spends already goes for debt payments. But it proposed Monday to borrow another $88.5 million next year.UTA aims to use that to provide $20 million...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Drug Dealing Lowlifes
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticleDalai Lama’s sister, ‘Mother of Tibet,’ coming to Utah
The sister of the Dalai Lama will be the keynote speaker Friday at a ceremony marking the completion of the Utah Tibetan Community Center.Ama Jetsun Pema, 77, revered by the Dalai Lama’s followers as...
View ArticleHatch pushes back at report his legislation hurt DEA's crackdown on opioids
Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch strongly denied Monday that legislation he pushed into law had exacerbated the opioid crisis by taking away a key tool from the Drug Enforcement Administration to halt...
View ArticleUtah’s Troy Williams preparing to start Saturday, but Tyler Huntley expects...
If Utah senior quarterback Troy Williams made his last start in Saturday’s loss to USC, he went down with touchdowns passing, rushing and receiving about a half hour up the road from his hometown of...
View ArticleLetter: Trump should turn local elections to Democrats
I have run for office three times in the last 12 years, and probably the most common reaction from my fellow Utahns was some version of the following: “You seem like a nice guy, and I like your ideas,...
View ArticleFeds to drop 11 felonies filed in Utah developer Diehl’s bankruptcy case
Federal prosecutors plan to ask a grand jury to drop 11 of the 14 felony charges brought against developer and former Utah Transit Authority board member Terry Diehl, new court papers say.Diehl’s...
View ArticleCharges dropped in Utah eyedrops poisoning case
Prosecutors have dropped a misdemeanor charge against a Utah woman accused of using eyedrops to secretly poison her husband.Court records show Davis County prosecutors explained the dismissal by saying...
View ArticleLetter: Should I sit, kneel or stand?
As basketball season at Weber State approaches, I wonder what I’ll do when the national anthem is played: stand, sit or kneel. I consider myself a patriot – served in the Army as a flight surgeon,...
View ArticleTom Mathews, former Tribune staffer who helped start Peace Corps, Common...
Tom Mathews, a Salt Lake Tribune staff writer in the 1940s and ’50s who went on to help found or develop the Peace Corps, Common Cause and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, died Saturday. He...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Who does the Attorney General really represent?
The Utah State Records Committee voted in favor of public disclosure when it ruled last week, unanimously, that the Utah Attorney General’s Office should release a legal opinion it prepared regarding...
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