The Salt Lake Tribune
A deep dive into the latest LDS membership stats
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- A deep dive into the latest LDS membership stats
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- 23 hours ago
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- There was plenty of good growth news — at least on its books — for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2025: a record number of convert baptisms of more than 385,000; an overall global membership climbing ever closer to 18 million; and at least 44 nations or territories with annual growth rates above 10%.
At the same time, the United States, the nation with the most Latter-day Saints, saw its net raw numbers decline for the first time, and children of record continued to lag well below 100,000.
On this week’s show, we dissect the latest data — from the exceptional expansions in parts of the Global South to the stagnant figures in other parts of the world — with independent researcher Matt Martinich, who tracks such data for the websites cumorah.com and ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com.
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- Inside Samuel Bateman’s polygamous sect: Nomz Bistline on abuse, jail and starting over
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- 1 day ago
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- Nomz Bistline was once a false prophet's wife in breakaway FLDS group. Now she’s telling her story — from abuse and control to jail and a new freedom.
Read the story:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/21/inside-samuel-batemans-polygamous
(Reporting: Jessica Schreifels, Trent Nelson | Video: Trent Nelson)
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- It’s a cafe by day and a bar at night. Welcome to Mother in downtown SLC.
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- 2 days ago
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- Hello, Eaters! Mother Cafe & Bar is a cool downtown hangout that changes its outfit based on the time of day you visit. As it says on the front door, Mother is “coffee by day, rhythm by night,” meaning you can order a latte and work on your laptop during the day, or dance with a cocktail in your hand into the night.
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- Utah’s moose are being killed by tiny ticks. The state is looking for ways to reverse the trend.
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- 3 days ago
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- One of Utah’s largest mammals is being taken down by something smaller than a penny.
Moose in the Wasatch Mountains are being “sucked to death” by ticks, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources researcher Kent Hersey said, explaining a decades-long decline in their population. Warmer winters, meanwhile, mean a boom for the parasite’s population, so biologists are working on a solution to stave off the pests.
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/20/utah-moose-population-decline-is
Reporting by: Jordan Miller
Video by: Jordan Miller
Media provided by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
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- Cameras could sway potential Tyler Robinson trial jurors, expert warns
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- 5 days ago
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- A defense expert warned Friday that a “sensational and misleading” wave of media coverage — amplified by cameras in the courtroom — has already shaped public opinion of the Utah man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, and could jeopardize Tyler Robinson's right to a fair trial.
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- An apostle's plan to prevent 'old men' from running the church
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- 8 days ago
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- The three most recent presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died at ages 101, 90 and 97.
In fact (not counting founder Joseph Smith) church presidents live to an average age of 87. And the current leader, Dallin Oaks, is 93.
Decades ago, liberal apostle Hugh B. Brown, a self-proclaimed “rebel,” saw this emerging gerontocracy as a problem and proposed a remedy, which included granting emeritus status at age 70 to all apostles, even members of the governing First Presidency.
In addition, Brown wasn’t particularly fond of how tradition has enshrined the process for picking church presidents and attempted to change it.
On this week’s show, historian Matthew Harris, author of the acclaimed “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality” and who is writing a biography of Brown, discusses the apostle’s views on succession and aging leaders.
Brown “had strong feeli...
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- This real-life Alta couple named king and queen of Corbet's Couloir -
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- 8 days ago
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- Skiers Piper Kunst and Tristen Lilly, who became a couple after meeting at Alta Ski Area four years ago, are the newly crowned Queen and King of Corbet's after winning the freeride ski and snowboard contest held annually in Corbet's Couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.
Reporting: Julie Jag
Media: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
Editing: Nicole Weaver
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- Visit a hibernating bear in its den
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- 10 days ago
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- Every winter for decades, small groups of wildlife biologists have quietly performed den checks across Utah. They look at the health of the animals, take measurements, check for cubs and replace tracking collars — all of which can be used to monitor the health of the local bear population.
Reporting: Julie Jag
Video: Francisco Kjolseth
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Utah Grizzlies superfan prepares for team’s last game in the state
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- Syracuse resident Guy Morgan is preparing to take his seat at the Maverik Center to cheer on his favorite team — The Utah Grizzlies — one final time.
On Sunday afternoon, the ECHL team will play its final game in Utah before moving to Trenton, New Jersey starting next season.
The move will leave people like Morgan — a diehard fan for nearly 30 years — devastated.
Video by Trevor Christensen of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- This Utah community radio station is in good health — and even opening a new concert venue
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- 11 days ago
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- You might enjoy listening to some of Utah’s up-and-coming bands on KRCL, the Salt Lake City-based community radio station, while driving to work or cooking dinner.
By next year, though, you’ll be able to hear them in person at the station’s expanded headquarters at 509 W. 300 North, thanks to a construction project announced last week. The build-out will include a 200-person indoor venue for concerts, panel discussions and other events.
Video by Chris Samuels of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Taylor Frankie Paul’s ‘volatile’ behavior described in Utah court hearing
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- Utah influencer Taylor Frankie Paul must be supervised while visiting one of her children after a court commissioner said he was concerned about the reality TV star’s “volatile” behavior during interactions with the child’s father.
Paul and her ex-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, appeared virtually in 3rd District Court on Tuesday as their lawyers argued over dueling requests for protective orders and new domestic violence allegations involving “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” cast members.
“I have concerns going both ways, quite frankly,” Commissioner Russell Minas said.
But after reviewing evidence — including a video Mortensen filmed during a 2025 fight between the couple — Minas ultimately granted Mortensen’s protective order request.
“Regardless, the reactions, even if he was trying to provoke a response [from her], are very troubling,” Minas said. “No thought [was] put into the effect this might have on...
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- A new DNA profile of Ted Bundy could help solve these Utah cold cases
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
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- Utah has a new tool that could help solve several decades-old cold cases that investigators have long suspected were linked to infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.
The breakthrough comes as investigators announced last week they closed a more than 50-year-old cold case involving the killing of Utah teen Laura Ann Aime, who was found dead in American Fork Canyon in 1974.
(Reporting: Samantha Moilanen | Video: Nicole Weaver)
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- Does the LDS General Conference format need changing?
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- 15 days ago
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- At least four aspects of the just-completed General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stood out:
• The Easter weekend focus on the death, resurrection and Atonement of Jesus Christ.
• A solemn assembly combined with Dallin H. Oaks’ first conference sermon as the 18th church president.
• A record number of convert baptisms in 2025.
• The choice of an African woman to lead the faith’s Primary organization for children.
Oaks gave a powerful talk about peace, definitely a timely topic. And the elevation of the first African as head of any of the faith’s global organizations was historic. But the weekend falling on Easter meant that most of the talks began to sound alike — even repetitive — and quite similar to what you might hear at any Christian church on that sacred holiday.
That begs a number of questions: Is it time to rethink the structure and substance of these ...
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- Global flavors shine at The Brick, a new restaurant in a familiar Salt Lake City location
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- The Brick has opened on 800 East in Salt Lake City, with a menu influenced by Spanish, Italian, Mexican and American cuisines.
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- Visit a hibernating bear in its den
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- Every winter for decades, small groups of wildlife biologists have quietly performed den checks across Utah. They look at the health of the animals, take measurements, check for cubs and replace tracking collars — all of which can be used to monitor the health of the local bear population.
Reporting: Julie Jag
Video: Francisco Kjolseth
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Shots fired after car drives into Black Lives Matter protestors in Provo, Utah
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- A group protesting police brutality gathered at the intersection of University Avenue and Center Street in Provo, Utah, on June 29, 2020, as part of nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. A second group arrived to express their support for police. Shortly after 8:30 p.m., protesters were in the street, blocking cars, when a large, white SUV heading south on University Avenue pushed its way through a crowd of protesters, knocking several of them aside.
Jesse Taggart, who would later say he feared for his life — and the lives of others — shot twice at the SUV, hitting the driver, Kenneth Dudley, once.
On April 6, 2026, Taggart was given a 15-year-to-life prison sentence after being convicted by a jury of attempted aggravated murder and other serious crimes.
Video by Trevor Christensen
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- Man who shot at SUV during 2020 BLM protest sentenced
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Jesse Taggart has long said he fired his gun at an SUV during a Black Lives Matter protest in Provo because he feared for his life — and the lives of others.
A jury didn’t believe him, convicting him of attempted aggravated murder and other serious crimes. And on Monday, nearly six years after the shooting, a Utah County judge handed down the maximum punishment: a 15-year-to-life prison sentence.
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- 5,000 people and 270 weiner dogs showed up ready to race at the 2026 Millcreek Doxie Derby
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- 16 days ago
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- 5,000 people and 270 weiner dogs showed up ready to race at the third annual Millcreek Doxie Derby last weekend.
Bad Brad Wheeler is the president of the National Wiener Racing Association, which hosts the event. Wheeler also emceed these wiener dog Olympics.
“I got started weiner dog racing by my good friend Kevin Kirk,” Wheeler said, referencing the owner of the iconic Heavy Metal Shop who started weiner dog races 10 years ago.
“After doing that first race for Kevin, something hypnotized me about weiner dog racing,” Wheeler said. “It’s contagious.”
A portion of the proceeds from the event will support the Rocky Mountain Dachshund Rescue.
Video by Palak Jayswal and Nicole Weaver of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Scout brought Utah dog lovers together with DogFriendlySLC. Now, they’re mourning him.
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- 20 days ago
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- All dogs go to heaven, they say. Scout the golden retriever helped Utah pups go to bars, cafes and concerts first. This week, the pooch behind DogFriendlySLC on Instagram died and his 40,000 followers are mourning.
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- ICE agent smashes window, arrests three during Utah traffic stop
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- A video taken by a U.S. citizen shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and state officers arrest three occupants of a vehicle during a traffic stop in Ogden, Utah on Monday, March 30.
In a statement, the Utah Highway Patrol says the vehicle was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 15. The driver did not have a valid drivers license, according to UHP, and the trooper notified a Weber County Sheriff’s deputy, who was being accompanied by ICE agents at the time.
The person who took the video was arrested and released later that day. The driver and passenger’s exact whereabouts are unknown.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/02/ogden-video-shows-ice-with-utah
Video courtesy Anthony Valencia
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- Shaun White brings Snow League to Park City, filling Sundance gap
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- Shaun White will team up with Park City Mountain to bring his Snow League halfpipe ski and snowboard competition to Utah. The "multi-year agreement" means Utah will have a superpipe for the first time in seven years.
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- Ted Bundy killed Utah teen found dead more than 50 years ago
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- A Utah cold case has come to a close.
Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy has long been considered the person who killed 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, who disappeared on Halloween in 1974 and was found a month later by hikers in American Fork Canyon.
Even Aime’s family had come to that conclusion, her younger sister, Michelle Impala, said. He was never charged in the Salem teen’s death, though he included her as he confessed to murders in Utah and other states just before his January 1989 execution in Florida.
But on Wednesday came confirmation: Newly tested DNA evidence definitely shows Bundy was Aime’s killer, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced.
“This case is now officially closed,” Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith said during a news conference.
Smith said investigators used “new forensics techniques” to confirm Bundy killed the teen. He said if Bundy were alive today, they would pursue criminal charges...
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- Ted Bundy killed Utah teen found dead more than 50 years ago
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- A Utah cold case has come to a close.
Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy has long been considered the person who killed 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, who disappeared on Halloween in 1974 and was found a month later by hikers in American Fork Canyon.
Even Aime’s family had come to that conclusion, her younger sister, Michelle Impala, said. He was never charged in the Salem teen’s death, though he included her as he confessed to murders in Utah and other states just before his January 1989 execution in Florida.
But on Wednesday came confirmation: Newly tested DNA evidence definitely shows Bundy was Aime’s killer, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced.
“This case is now officially closed,” Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith said during a news conference.
Smith said investigators used “new forensics techniques” to confirm Bundy killed the teen. He said if Bundy were alive today, they would pursue criminal charges...
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- What women as Sunday school presidents means for the LDS Church
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced that women could now serve in Sunday school presidencies, a position that has traditionally been filled by men.
Allowing women to oversee the teaching of scriptures and church doctrine to members was seen by many as a further move toward gender equity.
The news, though, came with a caveat: If a woman were named as president, her two counselors would also have to be women. Same with men. That element caused much consternation at a change that might have brought unalloyed delight.
So was this a big stride or simply a little step? What are the implications, if any, for the global faith?
Discussing those questions and more are Emily Jensen, web editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and LaShawn Williams, a clinical social worker in Orem with a private practice and current president of the Mormon Mental Health Association.
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- A behind-the-scenes look at the LDS Church’s most iconic instrument and the man who keeps it in tune
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- 23 days ago
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- It has been a symbol in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 160 years.
You see it on television and hear it on the radio every week. You find it whenever you reach for the faith’s hymnal. For decades, it loomed as the most prominent fixture at General Conference.
But to Joseph Nielsen, the Salt Lake Tabernacle’s famed pipe organ is more than a musical companion to a celebrated choir’s weekly performances, more than an embossed image on a songbook, more than a majestic monument to the pioneer past, more than an emblem of a global religion.
To Nielsen, it’s personal.
Video by Trevor Christensen of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- ‘Mormons in Media’ crossover: Which 'Secret Lives' messes actually tie back to the LDS Church?
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- It has been the month of breaking news surrounding reality television in Utah. From Season 4 of 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' premiering, to Taylor Frankie Paul's 'Bachelorette' season being cancelled, to Jessi from 'Secret Lives' getting divorced to then sending flowers to a friend for kissing her ex-husband...there is a lot to unpack!
On this 'Mormons in Media' crossover, we discuss what ties back to religion and what is just drama. Plus, we talk about deconstructing religion on missions and GLP-1 addiction and how that ties back into the "Utah beauty standard." Will certain things stay black and white or are we entering a grey area?
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- Inside a musical instrument unlike any other
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- It has been a symbol in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 160 years.
You see it on television and hear it on the radio every week. You find it whenever you reach for the faith’s hymnal. For decades, it loomed as the most prominent fixture at General Conference.
But to Joseph Nielsen, the Salt Lake Tabernacle’s famed pipe organ is more than a musical companion to a celebrated choir’s weekly performances, more than an embossed image on a songbook, more than a majestic monument to the pioneer past, more than an emblem of a global religion.
To Nielsen, it’s personal.
The master organ technician has played the pioneer pipes and maintained the organ’s entire system for the past three years.
In this job, Nielsen is living his, well, pipe dream, tending not only to the Tabernacle’s iconic instrument but also to all the organs across Temple Square.
“I call it the temple of ton...
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- No Kings: Thousands rally in Utah to protest President Donald Trump
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- From St. George to Logan, thousands of Utahns gathered in the streets Saturday to protest President Donald Trump as part of the third national “No Kings” day of protests.
Through signs, chants and songs, protesters railed against Trump and his policies, as well as the proposed ICE detention center in Salt Lake City, the war in Iran, the Jeffrey Epstein files and more in rallies across the state.
The Salt Lake City crowd marched through shut down streets from Washington Square Park to the Capitol, with many shouting, “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,” along with, “Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go.”
Video by Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- A colorful party welcomes spring to Utah
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- After a mild winter, spring is back in a wide array of colors.
And at the annual Holi Festival of Colors at Spanish Fork’s Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple, colors are not only meant to be enjoyed but also thrown.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the celebration in Utah — save for the year it was canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The event, which drew hundreds of Utahns on Saturday, also includes a variety of activities, food and exotic animals. Guests can participate in dancing, feeding the animals, yoga and, of course, the legendary throwing of colorful powders.
Video by Dylan Eubank
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Prop 4 repeal will not make the 2026 ballot in Utah
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- Only a few weeks ago, a ballot initiative to restore the Legislature’s ability to gerrymander Utah’s political districts appeared to be a lock for the 2026 ballot.
It didn’t last.
As of Thursday, the Republican-led initiative slipped below the number of signatures required for the measure to go to voters, as thousands of voters statewide and hundreds in one key Senate district withdrew their support.
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- The real Harry Reid, the most powerful Latter-day Saint politician in history
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- 29 days ago
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- Mitt Romney may be the most famous Mormon politician, but the title of highest-ranking elected Latter-day Saint in U.S. history belongs not to a rich Utah Republican with a patrician background and deep ties in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but rather to a self-made Nevada Democrat with hardscrabble roots who converted to the faith.
His name: Harry Reid. Passionately partisan, fiercely loyal and discreetly devout, Reid, who died in 2021, rose to majority leader in the U.S. Senate, where the onetime boxer fought for landmark Democratic victories on Obamacare, financial reforms and an economic stimulus package.
He was ruthless and religious — LBJ without the swearing.
Learn more about the real Harry Reid from political journalist Jon Ralston, author of the recently released biography, “The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight.”
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- Engine Room Pub opens in SLC's Ballpark neighborhood
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- Checking out Engine Room Pub, a new restaurant and lounge in Salt Lake City's Ballpark neighborhood. It caters to both families and the 21-plus crowd.
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- Utah football will pay Kyle Whittingham $13.5 million in Michigan exit
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Kyle Whittingham did not want to leave the University of Utah at the end of last season.
The longtime football coach told the U. he did not “intend to retire” — and he wanted a raise.
And when he eventually took a new job at the University of Michigan, bringing some Utah assistant coaches and players with him, U. officials withheld millions of dollars for a time, saying they were “ disappointed by [his] actions.”
That’s according to new documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through a public records request. The documents shed light on Whittingham’s exit from the U., where he spent two decades as head coach and had another year left on his contract.
“Coach Whittingham made clear his hope and desire to remain as the head football coach at the University of Utah under the current contract,” Whittingham’s agent and attorney Bruce Tollner told the Tribune in a text. “When the university chose to move in a differ...
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- Utahns protest outside ICE warehouse
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- 1 month ago
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- Hundreds of Utahns protested outside the Salt Lake City warehouse ICE intends to convert into a detention facility Wednesday evening.
Many referred to the proposed ICE facility as an emerging concentration camp in Utah’s midst and called for it to be blocked from ever opening. Several signs referred to Topaz, an Utah-based internment camp for Japanese residents during World War II.
“It shocks my conscience,” said Steve Klemz, a retired Lutheran pastor from Salt Lake City.
Klemz added that the ICE detention center was set to “profit on the backs of those who are made to suffer.”
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/18/slc-ice-detention-center-sparks/
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- Gov. Cox says he supports ICE detention center in Utah
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- 1 month ago
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- Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he was not given any notice that the Department of Homeland Security was purchasing a warehouse in Salt Lake City to use as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
Despite his frustrations with the lack of notice from President Donald Trump’s administration, Cox said he supports having an ICE detention center in Utah.
The Utah governor said such a center is necessary in the West, as several states, he argued, lack space to hold migrant detainees. Cox said he’d discussed establishing a detention center in the state with President Joe Biden’s administration prior to Trump taking office again.
Read more:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/03/19/utah-officials-were-not-told-ice
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- This northern Utah photographer’s side gig unlocks lost memories
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- 1 month ago
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- Since he started developing film in northern Utah, Jason Haywood has brought old-school images and forgotten memories to life.
Haywood, a professional photographer originally from Richfield, runs Logan Mini Lab — Cache Valley’s only dedicated film development business. As he’s steadily grown his venture, he’s unlocked snapshots of the past.
Read more:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/19/logan-film-developer-unlocks-lost
Reporting by: Brock Marchant
Video by: Rick Egan
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- All Purpose Bakehouse is SLC’s newest bakery and the croissants are the star of the show
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- 1 month ago
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- All Purpose Bakehouse, at 779 S. 200 East, is the first brick-and-mortar business of baker Eli Fuhrman.
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Fuhrman got his start in the restaurant industry at 16. But he said it wasn’t until college that he realized he was a foodie.
At one point, he was taking a programming class at Westminster, on track to go into IT like his dad. But he admits he would often watch baking videos in that class instead of doing schoolwork.
While working on a group project, Fuhrman would host his group at his apartment, where he’d cook and bake for them. Eventually, he told his parents he wanted to return to restaurants. He’s been baking professionally for the past 10 years, and he opened All Purpose Bakehouse in January.
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- 'Mormon Land': It’s better to compromise with the church than clash with it, says LGBTQ+ advocate
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- 1 month ago
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- As a young man, Troy Williams wore a missionary name tag for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain — all the while fighting against the growing realization he was gay.
Afterward, he interned with the Utah Eagle Forum and learned the ways of backroom politicking at the feet of one of the state’s most effective conservative lobbyists, Gayle Ruzicka.
Thus, an advocate was born.
After embracing his sexual orientation, Williams rose to executive director of Equality Utah, the state’s preeminent LGBTQ+ rights group, and suddenly found himself on the opposite side from his onetime mentor.
Though he no longer labored for his former faith, Williams soon was working with it, helping to craft the landmark Utah Compromise, which safeguarded religious liberty while barring housing and workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
More breakthroughs followed, including the chu...
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- ICE bought its Salt Lake City detention facility from real estate trust linked to Trump and Epstein
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s goals in buying up a gigantic warehouse on Salt Lake City’s west side are clear, who sold the building that is now set to become a detention facility is far more opaque.
The company that formally transferred the structure to the federal government on Wednesday, RREEF CPIF 6020 W 300 S, LLC, is best imagined as the smallest in a series of Russian nesting dolls.
The largest doll is the multinational Deutsche Bank, known for its former ties to President Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
RREEF CPIF 6020 W 300 S, LLC is registered in Delaware, where state laws don’t require companies to disclose their owners in business filings. However, because the firm does business in Utah, it is registered here, too. Utah filings show that another Delaware company, known as RREEF Core Plus Industrial REIT L.L.C., owns it.
Reporting: Jose Davila IV and Tony Semerad
Video: Trevor C...
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- John Dinkelman serves his country as a diplomat. He lives his faith as a Latter-day Saint.
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- 1 month ago
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- Born in Salt Lake City, John Dinkelman has spent nearly four decades working as a U.S. diplomat in countries as far away as the former Yugoslavia and Turkey, and as close as Nogales, Mexico.
He currently serves other diplomats as president of the American Foreign Service Association.
As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dinkelman served a two-year mission in Argentina and graduated from church-owned Brigham Young University.
On this week’s show, he discusses his career, how his Latter-day Saint faith has guided him, and what part the church can play on the global stage.
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- Abundant with beauty and supposedly haunted, a desolate Utah retreat is being restored
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- For years, Utahns spun spooky stories about what lurked in this old canyon retreat. Its history harks back to the wealthy and accomplished, and its future is under construction.
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- ‘Loved by everybody’: Friends and neighbors recall the lives of 3 women killed in Wayne County, Utah
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Pink ribbons are fluttering in Wayne County’s small towns as mourners leave flowers at a trailhead memorial for Margaret Oldroyd, Linda Dewey and Natalie Graves. Meanwhile, the man suspected of killing them, Ivan Miller, appeared in a Colorado courtroom, where his attorneys said they will "be fighting this every step of the way."
Reporting: Samantha Moilanen and Sean P. Means
Video: Bethany Baker
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Accused of killing 3 Utah women, man will fight return to the state
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Utah prosecutors allege Ivan Miller killed three women earlier this week at random in rural southern Utah in order to steal their cars and money. The Friday court hearing centered on officials’ request that he be delivered to Utah to face aggravated murder charges here, which his defense attorney said he would fight.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/06/iowa-man-accused-killing-3-women
Video via Colorado Judicial Branch.
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- SLC baker wants to start Utah’s first Korean ‘dessert cafe’
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Kyookie is a Salt Lake City baking operation run by Klara Han, who recently raised enough funds through a Kickstarter campaign to open Kyookie as a Korean dessert cafe.
Until the cafe opens, Han is offering her Korean treats at Sunny Honey, a boba shop in the Marmalade District, as well as the Tea Barn, in Orem.
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- How Utah charter Maeser Preparatory Academy violated state law — and what came next
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The controversy only came to light after a judge ruled Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy's board held an illegally closed meeting — and demanded they disclose a video recording of it, granting the public rare access.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2026/03/02/how-utah-charter-maeser/
Video by Bethany Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- How Utah adoption laws can cost fathers their parental rights
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Mike Marler was stunned when he opened an email that told him that his newborn daughter had been adopted. Then, he started calling lawyers.
It was September 2024, and the Utah man was scrambling for help.
“I went into panic, freak-out mode,” he said. “Every lawyer is like, ‘Dude, you’re in Utah,’” referring to the state’s strict adoption laws.
“I don’t get it,” he remembered saying, and then was told, “Your kid is gone.”
His daughter had been born five days before, and twenty-four hours after that, Marler’s ex-girlfriend had placed her for adoption.
Read more at sltrib.com.
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- SLC's Old Cuss Cafe started as a coffee trailer but is now a cozy restaurant and coffee shop
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Hello, Eaters!
Old Cuss has been a part of the Salt Lake City area food scene for about five years in various iterations, and now, it’s back — in a brick & mortar downtown called Old Cuss Cafe.
Last week, I visited the vegetarian restaurant/cafe at 325 W. Pierpont Avenue, where I had a nice chat with Old Cuss founder and co-owner Brent’Lee Williams.
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- Farmers protest highway expansion with a 'tractorcade'
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- 2 months ago
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- A line of tractors and cars rumbled through Heber on Saturday, reviving a protest tactic popular in the late 1970s, when farmers nationwide would roll their rigs through towns to make their voices heard.
Farmers, landowners and residents brought the tactic back to oppose a Utah Department of Transportation plan recommending a bypass that would redirect U.S. Route 40 through Heber Valley’s North Fields — a stretch of farmland and wetlands near the base of the Wasatch Back.
“Your shortcut is our shortfall,” read a sign held by Greta Andreini, who moved to Heber two years ago after leaving Park City in search of a quieter, more rural home.
“It’s just a gateway for major development all through the valley,” Andreini said of the bypass. “So once it’s built, you can’t go back.”
Protesters held signs reading “Cows over diesel,” “Save the North Fields” and “Stop selling out our valley” as the procession set o...
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- Prosecutors have ‘no significant’ bias in case against Charlie Kirk’s accused killer, judge rules
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- 2 months ago
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- A judge has decided not to disqualify the team currently prosecuting the man accused of fatally shooting conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, ruling they have “no significant risk” of any conflict of interest that would jeopardize the death penalty case.
That latest decision came Tuesday from 4th District Judge Tony Graf in the highly watched case. Tens of reporters from different media outlets joined the online hearing to learn whether Graf found the Utah County attorney’s office was biased against Tyler James Robinson.
“The court finds those boundaries have not been crossed here,” Graf said, reading from his ruling during the 30-minute hearing.
The 22-year-old’s defense attorneys had previously moved to remove the Utah County attorney’s office from the case after learning that one of its prosecutors had a daughter who was at the Utah Valley University event where Kirk was shot Sept. 10.
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- What's the latest on the effort to overturn Utah's Prop. 4 gerrymandering law?
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- 2 months ago
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- Are you reading the news about an effort by Utah Republicans to repeal Proposition 4, the state’s ban on gerrymandering, but still have some questions? You’re not alone.
So at 1 p.m. Tuesday, The Salt Lake Tribune's Jeff Parrott and Robert Gehrke will host a YouTube livestream to answer your questions about Prop 4, the repeal effort and the long history of the anti-gerrymandering effort in Utah.
Have Republicans gathered enough signatures to ask Utahns to repeal Prop 4? Why did they have to collect signatures in the first place? When will the counting stop? What’s gerrymandering?
We’ll try to answer all of these and more.
