Southern Utah University campaign calls out offensive Halloween costumes
A Southern Utah University campaign is reminding people to dress respectfully this Halloween by not reducing racial and ethnic groups to stereotypes. A series of posters, launched online and around...
View ArticleUtah judge won't rule on Gary Ott’s custody case following his death. A fight...
Former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott’s family will file a probate action to gain control over his estate after he died last week before a judge decided who should serve as his legal guardian.Ott...
View ArticleLike the Jazz, Clippers trying to stay afloat through roster upheaval
When the Utah Jazz travel to Staples Center for Tuesday’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers, both teams will be in familiar surroundings. After all, this was the venue for Utah’s final postseason...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: Conservative media was Scottie Nell Hughes’ world. Now...
Scottie Nell Hughes defended Donald Trump passionately during the campaign. After the election, seeming to echo Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s notion of “alternative facts,” Hughes infamously opined...
View ArticleFred Hiatt: The point that McCain and Bush were making is much bigger than Trump
It’s no surprise that when President Donald Trump shot back at Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., last week, he failed to engage the substance of McCain’s argument.“Yeah, well I hear it. And people have to be...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Whether Love or McAdams wins that Congress seat, it's good...
Utah, we have a horse race.And whoever wins, it will be good for everybody.Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, a Democrat, announced the other day that he will challenge incumbent Republican Mia Love...
View ArticleBYU football: Kalani Sitake granted troubled former linebacker Francis...
Provo • Embattled BYU football coach Kalani Sitake has a lot of things to worry about with the Cougars standing at 1-7 and on their longest losing streak since 1968, but the status of two players who...
View ArticleAppeals court upholds conviction of San Juan Commissioner Phil Lyman for...
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld Monday the conviction of San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman for leading a protest ride through Recapture Canyon near Monticello, which...
View ArticleA first look inside Utah's 17th Mormon temple, this one in Cedar City
Mormons and non-Mormons alike will get their first peek inside Utah’s 17th LDS temple starting this week, a little more than two years after officials broke ground on the Cedar City project.From Friday...
View ArticleSugar House library re-opens after devastating flood that destroyed thousands...
Larry DuBois has been visiting the Sprague Branch Library in Sugar House for the past 20 years. But for the past three months — after a flood filled its lower level with more than 5 feet of water —...
View ArticleTwo Salt Lake City police officers cleared in Tooele County shooting episode...
Tooele County Attorney Scott Broadhead has determined that two Salt Lake City police officers were legally justified in using deadly force when they exchanged gunfire with an armed man following a May...
View ArticleNow that RSL has missed the playoffs, the what-ifs begin
Even before Real Salt Lake came up one point short of a playoff berth on the last day of the season Sunday, captain Kyle Beckerman anticipated that the what-ifs that would follow.“It happens every...
View ArticleUtes, Ducks find themselves in similar funks before showdown in Eugene
The Utes could look into a mirror and see the Ducks.Utah coach Kyle Whittingham didn’t say it verbatim during his weekly Monday press conference, but it was close.“Two teams that need a win,” he said....
View ArticleCritics of the campaign for Canyons School District’s $283M bond are eager to...
When do public expenditures promoting a ballot bond proposal cross the line from being informational to campaigning?That’s the question some Canyons School District constituents are asking after...
View ArticleUtah voters evenly split on the Count My Vote initiative to rely solely on...
A new poll shows Utahns are evenly divided over the just-resurrected Count My Vote ballot initiative that seeks to let voters choose party nominees solely through a primary election, and dump the...
View ArticleDemocrats urge President Trump not to shrink Bears Ears, Grand...
Washington • Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin and 13 Democratic colleagues urged President Donald Trump not to change the boundaries of the Bears Ears or Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments,...
View ArticleIn retrospect, Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham says Zack Moss needed to...
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham believes his offense needs to establish an identity, and he’s clearly frustrated that’s still the case seven games into the season. It’s also clear that the running attack...
View ArticleRicky Rubio’s offensive production has been a pleasant surprise for Jazz
When the Jazz traded for Ricky Rubio, they did so with his playmaking in mind.Rubio’s scoring, however, has been an added benefit, and something unexpected given his history in the NBA. He has never...
View ArticleBYU is ‘desperate,’ vows to let it all hang out in final five football games
Provo • Aggressiveness.That, and a lot of other traits, have been lacking in the BYU football program, head coach Kalani Sitake said at his weekly press briefing on Monday.The Cougars are 1-7 and...
View ArticleUtah woman facing trial after allegedly trying to help another woman commit...
Logan • A judge ruled Monday that there is cause for a Cache County woman — who allegedly tried three times to help a friend commit suicide — to stand trial on four of the five criminal counts filed...
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