Letter: Maybe we could qualify for black-lung benefits
As my wife and I were driving home from yoga class on a recent evening, we were greeted by a blood red sunset that looked like a giant eclipse as viewed through glasses. It soon disappeared into the...
View Article‘It’s never too late,’ judge tells participants of new drug court created in...
One month and more than 1,000 arrests later, state and local officials on Wednesday announced the latest step in Operation Rio Grande: a new drug court for those rounded up in the crackdown who want...
View ArticlePrep football: Gavin Davey sparks Summit Academy offense with big-play potential
Bluffdale • The top-ranked football team in Class 3A days sits snuggly among a nest of buildings just west of I-15 near the Point of the Mountain.The location is so close to the elevated freeway curve...
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: A hilarious and elementary lesson on the burdens of...
Washington - Life is exhausting — and daily choices are unbearably burdensome — for some Americans who are so comfortably situated that they have the time and means to make themselves morally...
View ArticleWest Jordan approves hate crime resolution that senator hopes will become a...
When Utah Sen. Daniel Thatcher introduced his hate crime bill in last year’s legislative session, it didn’t even get a public hearing.Now, the Republican senator is hoping a resolution the West Jordan...
View ArticleGerman artists built a gigantic pen and are dragging it through the Utah...
Two German artists pulling a giant silver pen — think of it as a sculpture made of foam board — walked out of Vernal on Wednesday morning to create a work of desert art.Wolfgang Aichner, 51, and Thomas...
View ArticleL.A. starts the countdown clock for 2028 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles • The Olympic cauldron blazing above the Coliseum gave it away: Los Angeles will host a third Olympics — in 2028.The news on Wednesday after a vote by the International Olympic Committee in...
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Surrounded by redrocks, Utah couple’s Zen Buddhist meditation center in...
Torrey • The silence was deafening.For several minutes, about 75 teachers and students of Zen Buddhism stood in meditation in the newly constructed temple surrounded by the redrock monoliths that make...
View ArticleTrump, top Democrats agree to work on a deal to save DACA
Washington • President Donald Trump and top Democratic leaders late Wednesday agreed to work out an agreement that would protect the nation’s “dreamers” from deportation and enact border security...
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E.J. Dionne: Trump commission pursues phony cases of election fraud
Washington • It is neither paranoid nor alarmist to begin asking if the Trump administration plans to rationalize blocking a large number of voters who oppose the president from casting ballots in 2018...
View ArticleAtlanta United routs New England by touchdown (in soccer)
Atlanta • Josef Martinez scored three goals for a first-half half trick and Atlanta United beat the nine-man New England Revolution 7-0 on Wednesday night in the second game at Mercedes-Benz...
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‘Huge waste of water’ or worth saving? Researchers use field trip to persuade...
Shortly after boarding a flotilla of tour boats at the Lindon Marina on Utah Lake, state Rep. Mike Noel wasted no time in getting right to the point.“What’s the main purpose of wanting to rehabilitate...
View ArticleCensus: With income up and poverty down, Utah enjoys relative prosperity
The Census Bureau’s new annual data snapshot of Utah shows the state enjoys relative prosperity — although its abundance is distributed unevenly — with incomes generally rising and poverty...
View ArticleDidn’t make it to the Renee Fleming gala? Here’s what you missed
Utah Opera had the coolest guest at its 40th-birthday party: Renée Fleming, arguably the best-known soprano in the world right now, thanks to her Grammy Award-winning recordings, crossover projects...
View ArticleUtah Forecast: A rainy introduction to an idyllic autumnal Saturday
The Wasatch Front’s work week will end with showers and thunderstorms, but sunshine and autumnal temperatures will make for an idyllic Saturday.After Thursday’s low-80s, the Salt Lake and Tooele...
View ArticleTown residents upset as popular road from Bluff into Bears Ears faces closure
Generations of Bluff residents have used a road leading north from the town between towering sandstone mesas to access public lands beyond, in what is now Bears Ears National Monument.But last month,...
View ArticleWhich counties rely the most on Utah's $8.4B tourism industry for jobs?
Daggett and Garfield counties may be on opposite sides of the state, but they have one thing in common — more than half of their jobs (54 percent) are provided by private leisure and hospitality...
View ArticleInvestors gave real estate guru Koerber nearly $100 million in two years — as...
Rick Koerber’s real estate investment companies lost tens of millions of dollars over several years, an FBI forensic accountant testified Wednesday in Koerber’s federal court trial.So instead of using...
View ArticleGovernor Gary Herbert may spell out more details of special session in...
Gov. Gary Herbert plans to call Utah lawmakers into special session next week to take actions needed in connection with Operation Rio Grande — the planned two-year effort to curb lawlessness and drug...
View ArticleSelena Gomez undergoes kidney transplant due to lupus
Selena Gomez recently received a kidney transplant from television actress Francia Raisa due to her struggle with lupus, the actress-singer revealed Thursday.Gomez disclosed in an Instagram post...
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