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(Children's Miracle Network Hospitals) Joe Lake, right, co-founder of the nonprofit group Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, shares a high-five with a child at a 2023 event for the organization. Lake has died at age 82.

Co-founder of Utah-based Children’s Miracle Network, which has raised billions for hospitals, dies

By Sean P. Means | April 8, 2025, 9:33 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake County Health Department has laid off staff after the Trump administration's decision to claw back $11.4 billion in COVID-related funding to state and local health departments nationwide.

Utah public health workers laid off as Trump cuts billions in COVID funding

By Jose Davila IV | Clarissa Casper | Mark Eddington | Paighten Harkins | Jeff Parrott | Brock Marchant | March 28, 2025, 11:36 p.m.

(Photo illustration by ProPublica. Photograph by Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune)

New Utah law seeks to crack down on life coaches offering therapy without a license

By Jessica Schreifels | March 27, 2025, 2:56 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kerri Robbins, a Lehi resident who was diagnosed with non-smoking lung cancer because of radon exposure, is pictured outside her home on Thursday, Jan 30, 2025. Robbins decided to have a celebration of life on the first anniversary of her tumor being discovered. Children from around the neighborhood decorated birdhouses that now hang from the tree outside her home.

Utahns face elevated risk of radon, non-smoking lung cancer. Here’s where that risk is higher.

By Megan Banta | March 1, 2025, 4:34 p.m.

(Paul Vernon | Associated Press file photo) A vial of a measles vaccination. Utah health officials urged people to get vaccinated against measles in releases issued on Feb. 28, 2025, as the number of cases have risen in other states — particularly in Texas.

Utah health officials urge people to get vaccinated against measles, as cases rise nationally

By Shaylee Navarro | March 3, 2025, 4:58 p.m.

(National Park Service) Zion Canyon Scenic Drive after it was cleared of debris from a rockfall Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, that forced its closure.

Zion National Park’s main canyon reopens after rockfall

By Mark Eddington | February 26, 2025, 4:54 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Seen on a video monitor, Dean Goodridge, father of Taylor Goodridge, who died at Diamond Ranch Academy, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to support a bill which would bring more oversight to teen treatment programs. Behind him, a crowd of people wore green ribbons in support of the teen treatment industry.

Their kids died in Utah teen treatment programs. Now, these parents are asking Utah lawmakers to beef up oversight.

By Jessica Schreifels | February 22, 2025, 1:11 a.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Stephanie Gricius speaks about her bill HB281, a bill that increases parental consent requirements for mental health professionals in the public education system, during a House Education Committee meeting at the Capitol in Salt Lake City Friday, Jan. 31, 2025.

A Utah bill would let parents control what their child can discuss with a school therapist

By Jessica Schreifels | February 3, 2025, 5:22 p.m.

(Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cloud cover over Washington County, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

This fast-growing southern Utah county is the most parched it’s been in more than a century

By Mark Eddington | February 4, 2025, 10:29 p.m.