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‘Loss for our community’ — A neighboring city tears out gardens in SLC

By Tony Semerad | Jul. 23, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

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Cafe Rio’s new boss has read your complaints. Here’s what he’s doing about them.

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A boat at Bear Lake tore into her legs. Strangers say this series of coincidences helped save the ‘very strong’ woman.

Days after slashing Bears Ears, Trump administration removes tribal seals from monument signs

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A map of the designated areas for fireworks within Clinton city limits is taped to the check out table at Dragon Dynamite Fireworks in Clinton on Monday, June 29, 2026.

A Utah mayor didn’t ban fireworks. Then someone online threatened to burn her house down.

By Robert Gehrke

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A detail is seen from the model of the Grand Liberty Arch Monument on display during a special event honoring America's 250th birthday and introducing UtahÕs Grand Liberty Arch Monument at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Monday, July 6, 2026.

Voices: The ‘Grand Liberty Arch’ is a masterclass in bureaucratic arrogance

By Jake Seastrand | For The Salt Lake Tribune

(AP Photo | Jessie Wardarski) Roughly a dozen people attend pastor Ryan Burge's Sunday service at First Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois, in 2023.

Half of Gen Z says Trump support keeps them out of church

By Ryan Burge and Rick Richardson | Religion News Service

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Here are the southern Utah cities that are allowing personal fireworks for Pioneer Day — and the 2 that aren’t

Here’s where fireworks have caused the most problems in Utah

A boat at Bear Lake tore into her legs. Strangers say this series of coincidences helped save the ‘very strong’ woman.

Sports

Why Utah football’s star running back stayed with the Utes

The NHL’s contract rules are changing. The Utah Mammoth just got ahead of them.

Kalani Sitake says BYU football won’t be the ‘highest bidder’ with NIL. Here’s why.

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(AP Photo | Jessie Wardarski) Roughly a dozen people attend pastor Ryan Burge's Sunday service at First Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois, in 2023.

Half of Gen Z says Trump support keeps them out of church

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Utes running back Wayshawn Parker (1) runs the ball into the endzone for a touchdown during the game between the Utah Utes and the Colorado Buffaloes at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025.

Why Utah football’s star running back stayed with the Utes

(Tony Semerad | The Salt Lake Tribune) Public works crews with South Salt Lake moved Tuesday to remove a series of gardens and trees behind homes along Parkway Avenue in Salt Lake City's Highland Park. The suburban city says it is securing a piece of property it owns behind the homes.

‘Loss for our community’ — A neighboring city tears out gardens in SLC

(Bureau of Land Management) Federal agency leaders and tribal representatives on the Bears Ears Commission stand in front of the newly installed Bears Ears National Monument sign on June 18, 2022. Pictured from left, former Agriculture Department Under Secretary Homer L. Wilkes, Ute Indian Tribe Business Committee Member Christopher Tabbee, Ute Mountain Ute Councilman Malcolm Lehi, Zuni Tribe Lieutenant Governor Carleton R. Bowekaty, Hopi Chairman Timothy Nuvangyaoma, Navajo Nation Executive Assistant Davis Filfred and BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning.

Days after slashing Bears Ears, Trump administration removes tribal seals from monument signs

POLITICS

Sun may be setting on federal daylight saving time bill

‘Motivated by love’: Utahns find strength in numbers during protest of Trump’s monument slashing

Utah cities will have to ask the state if they want to ban Pioneer Day fireworks

Opinion

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Voices: The ‘Grand Liberty Arch’ is not a monument for Utahns. Citizens need a say.

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Religion

‘Mormon Land’: His scribe’s diaries provide further evidence of Joseph Smith’s secret polygamy

Pioneer Day is just one example of the LDS Church’s anti-Indigenous racism, new book argues

Jana Riess: ‘Yesteryear,’ a tradwife satire, understands Christianity better than most Americans

Culture

At a new museum, a Utah billboard icon steals the show

A popular piece of Salt Lake history has been saved. Now what comes next?

Coming to 2100 South in Sugar House: a new liquor store

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