Rather than loan $4M to a developer, SLC Council votes to buy North Temple...
Salt Lake City is about to be in the motel business — though its City Council expects a short stay.Rather than approve a $4 million loan requested by an affordable housing developer for the Overniter...
View ArticleJazz’s Dante Exum has successful shoulder surgery, still no timetable on...
Los Angeles • Hours before the tipoff of their game against the L.A. Clippers, the Utah Jazz got good news from across town.Point guard Dante Exum had successful surgery to stabilize the AC joint in...
View ArticleJazz get a reality check in L.A. with 102-84 loss to Clippers
Los Angeles • Since Saturday night, the hope had been allowed to soar.The Utah Jazz were coming off a win over a team with three All-Stars without one of their top scorers themselves. What couldn’t...
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Ligety healthy and skiing fast with Olympics on the horizon
The last time Ted Ligety felt this confident, this healthy and this fast on his skis was ages ago.Oct. 25, 2015, in Soelden, Austria, to be more precise — the date of his last World Cup victory.Since...
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At Dinosaur National Monument, two hiking trails far apart
Dinosaur National Monument, Colo. • We took a few minutes to sip coffee under the cottonwood trees along the Yampa River. We spent a few minutes more frying bacon and eggs and eating them for...
View ArticleSlim majority of Utah voters likes tough new DUI law, with very active...
When Utah lawmakers passed the nation’s toughest drunken driving law in March, the state drew plenty of criticism and became the butt of a joke.“Utah, come for vacation, leave on probation,” read the...
View ArticleGehrke: Utahns need to fight resistance — from the Legislature and the Mormon...
When you think of those few liberal bastions in Utah, Beaver County doesn’t usually make the list. Yet the southwestern Utah county commission was among the first in the state to call on the...
View ArticleUtahns are feeling more extreme summer heat due to climate change, study says
A majority of Americans — and Utahns — are facing more days of extreme heat each summer than they did a few decades ago, according to a study that highlights the health effects of that trend.The study...
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Jeff Flake: Enough — it's time to stand up to Trump
As I contemplate the Trump presidency, I cannot help but think of Joseph Welch.On June 9, 1954, during the Army-McCarthy hearings, Welch, who was the chief counsel for the Army, famously asked the...
View ArticleEinstein scribbled his theory of happiness in place of a tip. It just sold...
He is known as one of the great minds in 20th-century science. But this week, Albert Einstein is making headlines for his advice on how to live a happy life, and a tip that paid off.In November 1922...
View ArticleNews roundup: Slight majority of voters say President Trump is ’reckless’
Slight majority of voters say President Trump is ‘reckless.’ Utah‘s Rep. Bishop proposes reform to Antiquities Act. National Park Service proposes new $70 entrance fee during peak season. Happy...
View Article2 killed — including a student — in campus shooting at Louisiana's Grambling...
A student and a campus visitor were fatally shot at Grambling State University, and the gunman is on the loose, officials said Wednesday.The authorities began receiving calls just after midnight...
View ArticleClinton campaign, DNC helped fund research that led to Russian dossier
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Donald Trump's connections to Russia...
View ArticleFats Domino, amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer, dies at 89; had hits with...
New Orleans • Fats Domino, the amiable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent City, has died. He...
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Jennifer Rubin: Flake showed what utter cowards his fellow Republicans are
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., spoke on the Senate floor on Tuesday with a moral clarity we have rarely seen among his fellow elected Republicans — and never from GOP leadership on Capitol Hill. He...
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Maryland development under fire after only selling homes to Muslims
Joppatowne, Md. • Dueling legal complaints and allegations of Islamophobia have marred an unfinished retirement community in Maryland after homes were sold only to Muslims.Planners say interest in the...
View ArticleGame of Throws podcast: Which former Ute great would you give this Utah...
Kyle Whittingham’s Utes are in search of an identity.Coming off another conference defeat — and the worst game of Tyler Huntley’s career (at any level) — there are plenty of questions to be asked.Where...
View ArticleSmall Montana firm from Interior chief’s hometown wins massive contract to...
For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico's crippled electrical grid, the territory's state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees...
View ArticleCount My Vote revises hearing schedule on primary election initiative
The Count My Vote ballot initiative has revised the time and places for some of the public hearings it has scheduled for Friday and Saturday.That includes moving one hearing from Herriman to Cottonwood...
View ArticleKragthorpe: After 30 years on the job, Utah AD Chris Hill is still seeking...
After a streaker ran onto the field at halftime, Chris Hill watched Utah State scored 24 straight points in the second half of a football victory. The Aggies celebrated by parading on the “UTAH”...
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