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Mark Eddington

Reporter

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An artist's rendering of the Barcelona Temple. The church already operates a Madrid Temple.

LDS Church is growing in Spain — but not because of native Spaniards

By Mark Eddington | May 2, 2025, 12:52 p.m.

(Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteers work at the St George dinosaur site on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

A Utah city is pulling the plug on plans to build a power station on top of a premier fossil site. Here’s why.

By Mark Eddington | May 1, 2025, 10:50 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ammon Bundy at his workshop in Cedar City in March. Bundy offered his thoughts to The Salt Lake Tribune on Trump, Musk, MAGA, the Constitution, the Book of Mormon and the "White Horse Prophecy."

Exclusive: Anti-fed fugitive Ammon Bundy has a warning for MAGA crowd about Donald Trump

By Mark Eddington | May 1, 2025, 4:32 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ammon Bundy at his workshop in Cedar City in March.

Exclusive: Back in good LDS standing, Ammon Bundy talks about his life in Utah as a wanted man

By Mark Eddington | May 1, 2025, 12:40 p.m.

(Jud Burkett | Special to The Tribune) A sign promoting the Lone Rock Condominium complex stands in front of the complex in Hurricane, Thursday, March 20, 2025.

Even rural Utah has struggled with expensive housing. Here’s how one city is helping level out prices.

By Megan Banta | Mark Eddington | April 11, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) President Russell M. Nelson greets 8-year-old Ella Hadley, from Syracuse, at the conclusion of General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Sunday, April 6, 2025.

LDS conference highlights: President Russell Nelson calls for more charity, less hostility, in a repeated plea for peacemakers

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | Tamarra Kemsley | David Noyce | Mark Eddington | April 7, 2025, 11:00 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saints walk to the Conference Center for the morning session of General Conference on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Global membership surpassed 17.5 million in 2024.

LDS Church reports adding the most converts in nearly three decades, so why are there nagging ‘concerns’?

By Mark Eddington | April 7, 2025, 10:16 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Thousands of people gather in front of the Utah Capitol during a protest against the Trump administration in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

Utahns in Salt Lake City, St. George and more gather for ‘Hands Off’ protests against Trump, Elon Musk

By Brock Marchant | Mark Eddington | April 6, 2025, 2:46 a.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf speaks at General Conference on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

Full summary of Saturday’s LDS General Conference: Uchtdorf says a church can make ‘mistakes’ and still be of God; Andersen bemoans abortion

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | Tamarra Kemsley | David Noyce | Mark Eddington | April 6, 2025, 5:31 p.m.

(Brigham Young University) Jose Oliveira speaks at a screening of his movie at BYU in fall 2022.

This Spanish convert’s macabre movies are hardly your typical LDS films

By Mark Eddington | April 4, 2025, 11:58 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.

(Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Paleontologist Andrew Milner uses a concrete saw to loosen blocks at a St. George dinosaur site, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Volunteers are racing to extract fossils at the site before construction begins on a power substation.

Scientists are pleading for more help at southern Utah fossil site. Here’s what they’ve found so far.

By Mark Eddington | March 28, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

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

Little relief in sight for drought-stricken southwestern Utah despite recent storms

By Mark Eddington | March 24, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Andrew Milner | The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site) A one-acre site being excavated by scientists and volunteers before St. George begins construction on an electric power substation.

‘This is a crisis’: A southern Utah city is set to build a power station on top of a premier dinosaur fossil site

By Mark Eddington | March 21, 2025, 9:31 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Water wise desert blooms grow at the Gardens South Condominiums in St. George on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

Facing historically dry winter, this booming southern Utah county has yet to agree on drought plan

By Mark Eddington | March 18, 2025, 4:28 p.m.

(Washington County Water Conservancy District) La Verkin Hot Spring on the Virgin River in Washington County.

Drinking water from salty hot springs? A Utah county wants to know if it’s feasible.

By Mark Eddington | February 28, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Housing in St. George on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. The Washington County Water Conservancy District's master plan calls for constructing a $1 billion regional reuse system that will eventually include a facility to treat and convert sewage into clean drinking water.

This southern Utah county plans to turn wastewater into drinking water

By Mark Eddington | February 27, 2025, 1:00 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.

(Cale Glendening) Alex Nibley and Kevin Costner during the filming of “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2” in Washington County.

Kevin Costner and his ‘Horizon’ series are still going. Here’s what these Utah actors say sets him apart.

By Mark Eddington | February 23, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The eastern access point for the proposed Northern Corridor Highway in St. George on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. In her State of the City Address Tuesday, Mayor Michele Randall said approval for the road will be a top priority.

St. George mayor vows to fight Biden admin decision on controversial highway through desert tortoise habitat

By Mark Eddington | February 13, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

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