Utah football notes: Special teams weapon Mitch Wishnowsky out to one-up...
How does Mitch Wishnowsky one-up himself?“Tough,” Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham said.Make no mistake: Utah’s Australian punter is determined to do so, despite winning the 2016 Ray Guy Award, a...
View ArticleBees rout Las Vegas 11-2 to snap three-game skid
The Salt Lake Bees ended a three-game losing streak, routing the host Las Vegas 51s, 11-2, on Monday night.The Bees jumped out to a 2-0lead in the first inning on RBI singles by Ramon Flores and David...
View ArticleEclipse creates community at Wheeler Farm: 'We're all experiencing something...
Murray • They came for the eclipse — but they really loved staying for the instant community it created at Wheeler Historic Farm. Watchers shared safety glasses, telescopes, other viewing devices and a...
View ArticleRyan says Trump "messed up" but opposes censure
Madison, Wis. • U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday he will not support a resolution to censure President Donald Trump over his comments following the white supremacist march in Virginia, even...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: State auditor should investigate closed commission meetings
Can a county commission in Utah legally hold a private meeting with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior?No, but it happened with two county commissions in May.The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has...
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Albert R. Hunt: This president can't be the healer-in-chief
President Bill Clinton went to Oklahoma City after a terrorist bombed the federal office building there in 1995. President George W. Bush lifted a bullhorn at the ruins of the World Trade Center on...
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Funeral for Utah National Guardsman who died in Afghanistan set for Saturday
Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler will be buried Saturday in his hometown of Monticello, his family announced Monday. Butler, a soldier in Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group of the Utah...
View ArticleBYU football: Kalani Sitake calls report of LB Francis Bernard's departure...
Provo • The confusing saga of troubled BYU linebacker Francis Bernard and his future plans took more twists and turns on Monday, as defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki and head coach Kalani Sitake gave...
View ArticleBYU women’s soccer: No. 8 Cougars battle Ohio State to a scoreless tie
Provo • It wasn’t the way the BYU women’s soccer team wanted its first game at renovated South Field to go, but it probably wasn’t the worst thing that will happen to coach Jennifer Rockwood’s young...
View ArticleCoal CEO expected Trump help, but administration said no
Washington — The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump goes against his ‘original instinct,’ plans to send more...
Trump goes against his ‘original instinct,’ plans to send more troops to Afghanistan. Despite program’s uncertainty, Utahns celebrate five years of DACA. Former Utah guv says letting Obamacare fail...
View ArticleEclipse 360: Watch the solar eclipse in an interactive 360 degree view
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View Article‘The moon made the sun smile’ – Utah kids amazed by solar eclipse on first...
As Lisa DeFrance escorted her fourth-graders out to the Meadowlark Elementary School fields Monday morning to watch the Great American Solar Eclipse, many of her students asked what time it was.It was...
View ArticleCivil War lessons often depend on where the classroom is
Austin, Texas — The Civil War lessons taught to American students often depend on where the classroom is, with schools presenting accounts of the conflict that vary from state to state and even...
View ArticleIrish church aims to end stigma for the children of Catholic priests
Vatican City • Bishops in Ireland have created detailed guidelines to address an issue the Roman Catholic Church has tried to keep under wraps for centuries: the plight of children born to Catholic...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Ontario Trail at Deer Valley
Ontario Trail is a great intro-to-the-Wasatch hike that’s pretty easy if you have $20 for a lift ticket at Deer Valley Resort. Ride the ski lifts 2,200 vertical feet from the resort base to the peak of...
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For a low-effort Utah mountain adventure, take a lift to the trailhead
As the Sterling Express lift rose out of Deer Valley’s Silver Lake Village, I felt like a bit of a slacker. Lift-served hiking can’t really be hiking, right? No exertion, no wayfinding, no bribing my...
View ArticleHalf of Utah’s 10 largest colleges under federal investigation for sexual...
Utah Valley University now is under federal investigation for its handling of a sexual assault complaint — the fifth of Utah’s 10 higher education institutions to find itself under the microscope for...
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Catherine Rampell: The imaginary immigrant hordes
Washington — Hide your wife, hide your husband, hide your child! The immigrant hordes are already here!Or so lots of Americans believe -- making it easier for politicians and fringe “alt-right”...
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Become obsessed with clafoutis, a custardy fruit pancake
This summer, I became obsessed with making clafoutis — big baked custardy fruit pancakes. If you look up the definition of clafoutis, it is referred to as a tart or fruit covered with flan. But, I...
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