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‘One of the most important living laboratories’: Scientists raise alarms over push by Lee, Maloy to scrap national monument plan

By Brooke Larsen | May. 15, 2026, 1:14 p.m.

This Utah ‘boy wonder’ is now a prominent defense-tech founder, making attack drones by the thousands in a Bluffdale warehouse

By Paighten Harkins | May. 15, 2026, 8:23 p.m.

‘I do not want this’: Another Utah data center is facing overwhelming opposition from locals

By Brooke Larsen | May. 16, 2026, 12:03 a.m.

Leader of Black LDS group says he fell victim to a racist threat while hiking in Utah

Will the Great Salt Lake hit a new record low this year?

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake City ICE warehouse on March 13, 2026. A protest there on Saturday ended with police officers tackling demonstrators and arresting four.

SLCPD arrests four in chaotic aftermath of protest at planned ICE detention facility

By Jose Davila IV

(Screenshot of "The Tucker Carlson Show," via YouTube) Tucker Carlson and Kevin O'Leary discuss a massive Utah data center on "The Tucker Carlson Show."

‘They asked us to come,’ Kevin O’Leary tells Tucker Carlson of massive Utah data center plan

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake Tribune reporter Julie Jag interviews young patients at Shriners Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. The Tribune has removed its paywall, making its journalism free to anyone on sltrib.com, starting May 14, 2026.

The Salt Lake Tribune just removed its paywall, making its journalism free to everyone

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News

Cox declares state of emergency for crop losses

Brian Steed to step down as Great Salt Lake commissioner

Utah project seeks to cut China from supplying ingredient used in defense systems, batteries and advanced electronics

Sports

Why the U.S. needs Real Salt Lake’s teenage star at the World Cup

Does AJ Dybantsa prefer to stay in Utah? Here’s what the BYU star said about his NBA draft hopes.

Gordon Monson: Devil be gone. A Utah Jazz exorcism is both necessary and at hand.

THE LATEST

(Fox 13) Governor Spencer Cox has declared a state of emergency for crop losses due to recent freezing.

Cox declares state of emergency for crop losses

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Great Salt Lake Commissioner Brian Steed as the Great Salt Lake Strike Team members and state legislators discuss efforts to save the lake, in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.

Brian Steed to step down as Great Salt Lake commissioner

(American Tungsten & Antimony) Geologists at one of the first drill hole locations on the Little Emma patented claim at the Antimony Canyon Project.

Utah project seeks to cut China from supplying ingredient used in defense systems, batteries and advanced electronics

(Screenshot of "The Tucker Carlson Show," via YouTube) Tucker Carlson and Kevin O'Leary discuss a massive Utah data center on "The Tucker Carlson Show."

‘They asked us to come,’ Kevin O’Leary tells Tucker Carlson of massive Utah data center plan

(Brooke Larsen | The Salt Lake Tribune) A resident raises concerns and questions about the proposed Red Butte energy campus and data center in Iron County during an open house in Cedar City on Thursday, May 14, 2026.

‘I do not want this’: Another Utah data center is facing overwhelming opposition from locals

POLITICS

Utah project seeks to cut China from supplying ingredient used in defense systems, batteries and advanced electronics

Here’s how much St. George paid to settle a lawsuit over all-ages drag show

‘There needed to be a fight here’: How Box Elder County residents plan to stop a massive data center

Opinion

Voices: I loved teaching in Utah — until this policy made it impossible to stay

Voices: I know Utah’s homeless population — and how we can actually help them

Letter: The president of the LDS Church has the bona fides to warn against partisan trampling of the rule of law. He should speak out.

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Religion

‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ shows how Christian imagery circulates in unusual ways through the fashion industry

Leader of Black LDS group says he fell victim to a racist threat while hiking in Utah

How many LDS temples have been announced under President Dallin Oaks? Make it three.

Culture

He arrived in Utah with $300. Now his designs appear on reality TV.

Crumbl’s Utah founders are stepping down as the cookie chain slows expansion, eyes ‘next chapter’

This Utahn said she is the ‘least likely’ to become an artist. Now she has an exhibit downtown.

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