Prep football: Springville Red Devils preview
Springville reached the Class 4A state semifinals in 2015 then played for the 4A state title last year.Can the Red Devils complete the climb and win it all this year competing in 5A?Although...
View ArticleSalt Lake Bees GM Marc Amicone promoted to team president
Longtime Salt Lake Bees general manager Marc Amicone now an additional title: Team president.Steve Starks, president of Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment, announced Amicone’s promotion on...
View ArticleImagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds gets a boost for his LGBTQ fundraising concert...
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds was busy putting together this month’s Orem concert to benefit at-risk LGBTQ youths when he got an offer from an unexpected source: the Mormon church.The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michelle Quist: What's changed for Julie Dole? Everything.
Elections aren’t over this month. There’s still one more for Salt Lake County Recorder. The Salt Lake County Republican Party Central Committee will elect an interim recorder on Thursday to fill the...
View ArticleWill self-driving cars, taxis make mass transit obsolete?
Utah officials have long planned billions of dollars more of mass transit in coming years — saying it’s the best way to handle expected rapid growth in crowded valleys where not many more freeways are...
View ArticlePrep football: Wasatch Wasps preview
Wasatch got a taste of the postseason by earning the No. 4 seed out of Region 8, but their season came to an end in the opening round at the hands of Alta.The Wasps would like a bigger taste this...
View ArticleLawsuit filed over Kane, Garfield commissions' meetings with Zinke
During his May swing through Utah to review national monuments, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had private meetings with three county commissions whose counties host two of the most controversial...
View ArticlePrep football: Skyridge Falcons preview
A 6-5 overall record and 4-3 in region play? That’s quite an inaugural season.Skyridge will try to build on the momentum from last season as it moves into a new Region 8 this season.“We are still in...
View Article10-year-old boy shot in head at central Utah home
Mount Pleasant • Police say a 10-year-old boy was found with a gunshot wound to the head while at a central Utah home with an 11-year-old.Mount Pleasant police said officers were called to the home...
View ArticlePrep football: Region 8 breakdown
The teams (Last season’s record)Maple Mountain (7-6) • Season preview coming soonProvo (7-5) • Season previewSkyridge (6-5) • Season previewSpringville (12-1) • Season previewTimpanogos (3-7) • Season...
View ArticlePaul Waldman: There is no equivalence between extreme right and extreme left
The president of the United States, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement are all facing a moral crisis brought on by the events in Charlottesville, which were just the most vivid and...
View ArticleFrancis Wilkinson: The liberal case for President Mike Pence
Donald Donald Trump’s presidency has produced a proliferation of Eeyores. It’s not their (our) fault. However dismal one’s view of current American politics, Trump is sure to expose it, with a tweet or...
View ArticleExperienced BYU offensive line a strength this season
Provo • Junior offensive lineman Austin Hoyt packed a Dutch oven for the BYU football team’s campout last weekend and made his famous peach cobbler for the guys. The dessert took a while to bake, but...
View ArticleSecond cancer institute study delaying negotiations between U., Huntsman family
University of Utah administrators say the April controversy involving the Huntsman Cancer Institute still plagues the school as it searches for a new president, but they have yet to enter into...
View ArticleACLU says Operation Rio Grande is 'business as usual' and, so far,...
Operation Rio Grande never received the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah’s stamp of approval and, after three days, looks to be ”business as usual,” according to a three-page statement released...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Rivera's rise comes at a crucial time
Let us pause to celebrate the moment. Rosie Rivera this week became the first woman, and the first Latina, to be sheriff of Utah’s largest county.Rivera, a 24-year veteran who rose to become chief of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Utah's Mike Lee criticizes Trump's comments defending white supremacists
Republican Sen. Mike Lee was the first and only member of Utah’s congressional delegation to pointedly criticize President Donald Trump for defending white supremacists and neo-Nazis after the deadly...
View ArticleState urges all Utah schools to test water systems for lead after detecting...
State officials have asked Utah’s public schools to test their drinking water for lead contamination — preferably before Labor Day — after spot tests over the summer found high levels of lead at...
View ArticleCorporate chiefs flee Trump; he disbands WH advisory panels
New York • With corporate chieftains fleeing, President Donald Trump abruptly abolished two of his White House business councils Wednesday — the latest fallout from his combative comments on racially...
View ArticleUtah National Guard member killed, 11 others injured in Afghanistan mission...
A member of the Utah National Guard was killed and at least 11 others were injured Wednesday during a mission battling Islamic State loyalists in eastern Afghanistan.An unspecified number of Utah Guard...
View Article