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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The New Bearclaw Poppy Navajo Trailhead in St. George depicts the eastern edge of the area known as Red Cliffs Desert Reserve (Zone 6) on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Over 6,800 acres were added to the reserve as a swap for allowing to build the Northern Corridor Highway, currently under scrutiny.

It’s official: Federal agencies reverse approval for controversial Northern Corridor Highway

By Mark Eddington | Dec. 21, 2024, 5:41 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Devils Garden trail in Arches National Park on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. As another federal government shutdown looms, Gov. Spencer Cox said Utah will keep tourist destinations in the state operating.

Utah will keep its national parks open if federal government shuts down, Cox says

By Robert Gehrke | Brock Marchant | Dec. 20, 2024, 9:54 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks with reporters during a news conference in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

ICE leadership ‘an embarrassment’: Cox says Utah has 200 incarcerated immigrants to deport.

By Robert Gehrke | Dec. 20, 2024, 5:32 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Education Association president Renée Pinkney speaks to media outside the 3rd District courthouse in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. The teacher association announced a lawsuit that day challenging the Utah Fits All voucher program.

Should Utah’s controversial school voucher program exist? A judge will decide.

By Paighten Harkins | Carmen Nesbitt | Dec. 20, 2024, 1:03 a.m.

(The Federalist Society) Latter-day Saint Sheldon Gilbert, a graduate of the University of Utah, will soon lead a powerful conservative/libertarian legal organization.

Federalist Society appoints LDS lawyer as president

By Tamarra Kemsley | Dec. 18, 2024, 2:34 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mitt Romney holds up a campaign pin during his farewell press conference at Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.

Mitt Romney says GOP is Donald Trump’s party — and ‘mainstream Republicans’ are now ‘main creek’

By Robert Gehrke | Dec. 13, 2024, 9:44 p.m.

(John Minchillo | AP) Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

Convicted Jan. 6 rioter invited to Trump’s inauguration by Utah congressional delegates, per letter

By Emily Anderson Stern | Robert Gehrke | Dec. 13, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

(Kim Raff for The New York Times) A view of Vineyard in October 2024 looking toward Utah Lake.

In a growing Utah City, residents are turning against their mayor

By Leia Larsen | The New York Times and The Salt Lake Tribune

(Mark Schiefelbein | AP) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, center left, and Arline Arnold Brady, center right, the great-granddaughter of Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah, join others in unveiling a statue of Cannon during a ceremony on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, in Washington.

Statue of first woman state senator, elected in Utah, unveiled at U.S. Capitol

By Emily Anderson Stern | Dec. 12, 2024, 5:02 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ballots in the counting center at Utah County's Administration Building in Provo on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.

It looks like 2 dead Utahns cast ballots and 3 people voted twice, audit finds

By Robert Gehrke | Dec. 10, 2024, 9:08 a.m.