Top Stories 2024

The Tribune’s Most Impactful Stories of 2024 – Your Gift Powers More Like It.

When stories turn into themes

Themes and favorites from 2024

Every day, we work to bring you essential reporting from across Utah.

Sometimes those daily stories stay with us, growing into themes Tribune reporters and editors track over weeks and months through open records requests, public meetings and trust building with sources.

Storylines can persist through the years, as well, as we report on a need for more transparency in government or corruption in the private and public realm or on how Utah grapples with affordability issues.

Through it all, The Tribune’s role is to serve as an independent source of Utah news and information.

As Executive Editor, my favorite days are those on which we share a story that stirs up a feeling, good or bad. It’s this journalism that makes me incredibly proud to be part of this team.

Here are 5 of my favorites, in no particular order:

1. Why an Olympic power couple made Salt Lake City their first stop after Paris

2. Man vs. trees: How a rancher’s bulldozing project cost Utah taxpayers

3. Here’s exactly why 13 books were banned from all Utah public schools, The Tribune found

4. ‘We had to see her:’ Utah’s Alissa Pili, Indigenous basketball star

5. How immigrants and refugees are helping Utah’s culinary workforce rebound

Other Top Stories of 2024

One Utah legislative candidate is talking about his family’s experience with IVF. Here’s why it matters.

A Utes football coach was demoted in 2020 over a racist slur. This is how he’s responded.

How a brand-new lake and better communication could preserve Bear Lake’s signature blue waters

Trail of neglect: Homelessness, drug activity are changing how west-siders use the Jordan River and its trail

St. George got hammered in the national media as a water waster. Can the green spot in the desert become a saver?

Here’s how our Utah Hockey Club reporter fell in love with the game — and why she hopes you will too

Ted Wilson, an ‘eternal optimist’ and former Salt Lake City mayor, dies at 84

A judge said he could go to rehab after jail. Why did no one take him there before he died?

Here’s what a Utah uranium mine is like today

Why an Olympic power couple made Salt Lake City their first stop after Paris

How immigrants and refugees are helping Utah’s culinary workforce rebound

How the U.S-Mexico border divides these two LDS congregations — in more ways than one

Andy Larsen: Utah Hockey has a head start on the Jazz. Here’s what the club needs to really take root

Smith’s Ballpark in SLC is nearing its final out. Here’s what’s next for the site.

Gordon Monson: The best reason to hope Ryan and Ashley Smith get an NHL team and the Millers get an MLB team? It benefits you.

Here’s exactly why 13 books were banned from all Utah public schools, The Tribune found

Utah continues to grow. Here’s how it’s changing according to the numbers.

We followed 3 shoppers to see how much they would save if Utah dropped its grocery tax

With a Jewish quarterback leading the Cougars, Utah’s rabbis have become rabid BYU football fans

Lawsuit that accused a Provo OB-GYN of sexually abusing dozens of women is revived by Utah Supreme Court

Utah A.G. Sean Reyes spent nearly a half-million dollars in campaign cash in 2023. Here’s where it went.

World-renowned bridal designer moved to Utah to be closer to her faith. The dresses are for all brides.

Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, says gay grandson of LDS apostle Dallin Oaks, creates ‘an environment ripe for violence’

Man vs. trees: How a rancher’s bulldozing project cost Utah taxpayers

Scott D. Pierce, longtime TV critic at Tribune and D-News, dies

The University of Utah’s logo actually isn’t a drum and feather