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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline call center in Salt Lake City, where all Utah calls are routed, is pictured on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. The call center, one of many across the country, continues to grow as they provide immediate access to crisis intervention and support for behavioral health.

Utah lawmakers came up with the 988 crisis line. They have differing views on possible Trump cuts to LGBTQ+ help.

By Emily Anderson Stern | May 1, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Republican Rep. Blake Moore speaks at the governorÕs mansion on election night in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.

‘There should be an honoring of the Supreme Court’: Rep. Blake Moore weighs in on Trump’s deportations

By Addy Baird | April 30, 2025, 6:50 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Union workers host a signature gathering event to put a referendum on the 2026 ballot to rescind HB267, a law that affects the ability of public workers to organize, at University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 21, 2025.

Referendum to repeal anti-union law meets threshold to qualify for 2026 ballot

By Robert Gehrke | April 28, 2025, 6:46 p.m.

(Haiyun Jiang | The New York Times) Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, second from left, listens as the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee holds a hearing on the Panama Canal on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, January 28,. 2025.

‘I would bring him back’: Sen. John Curtis said he’s concerned about Abrego Garcia’s deportation

By Addy Baird | April 25, 2025, 11:11 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Troy Williams, a prominent organizer for LGBTQ+ Utahns, lends his voice as the Utah Pride Center sponsors a protest at the Utah Capitol over HB77, a bill that bans pride flags from Utah schools and government property, on the last day of the Legislative session, Friday, March 7, 2025.

A firm founded by a Trump adviser sued a Utah LGBTQ+ advocacy group. A judge just threw out the case.

By Emily Anderson Stern | April 25, 2025, 10:13 p.m.

(Trent Nelson|The Salt Lake Tribune) Bethami Dobkin speaks at her inauguration as president of Westminster College, now Westminster University, at Converse Hall in Salt Lake City, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. In April 2025, Dobkin was the only higher education leader in the state to sign onto a leader condemning President Donald Trump's attempts to exert control over universities and colleges.

This one Utah university president signed onto national letter criticizing Trump’s attacks on higher education

By Courtney Tanner | April 25, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Boxes of signatures are checked in at the Salt Lake County Clerk's office as labor leaders attempt to qualify a referendum repealing an anti-union bill, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

Utah’s county clerks are analyzing 320,000 referendum signatures. Here’s how they do it.

By Robert Gehrke | April 25, 2025, 6:21 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) The Judges of Utah Court of Appeals, from left to right, Norman Jackson, James Davis, Pamela Greenwood, Russell Bench, Judith Billings, Gregory Orme and William Thorne, walk together at Scott M. Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City, in this file photo from April 9, 2002.

One of the first women included on Utah’s inaugural appeals court dies

By Emily Anderson Stern | April 24, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The fluoride station at the Big Cottonwood Water Treatment Facility on Monday, April 21, 2025.

Utah to be first state to ban fluoride from drinking water. Will we regret it?

By Robert Gehrke | April 23, 2025, 3:51 p.m.