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Unmarked vans and chartered flights: How ICE is deporting people from Utah
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- Unmarked vans and chartered flights: How ICE is deporting people from Utah
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
- Description
- The planes seem to come through Salt Lake City International Airport on a fairly routine schedule — twice a week, on Monday and Thursday mornings, usually landing around 10 a.m. and taking off by noon.
People in handcuffs and ankle restraints boarded at least two of them in recent months, Salt Lake Tribune journalists have observed.
But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not confirm any details about what it calls “removal flights,” citing “operational security concerns.”
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Reporting: Sean P. Means
Video: Abigail Landwehr & Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Bountiful Chalk Art Festival 2026
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- Chalk artists flocked to the Bountiful Chalk Art Festival, happening through Saturday, to create intricate and beautiful works of art. We asked the artists: how do you feel about an art medium that is so temporary?
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- AI, data centers and Medicare: Blake Moore, Karianne Lisonbee debate
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- Utah Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, is challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Blake Moore in Utah’s new 2nd Congressional District. The two debated some of the issues Monday night at PBS Utah.
Video: Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Republicans Celeste Maloy and Phil Lyman agree on a lot, except for each other
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- When speaking to reporters, U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy and her challenger for the 3rd District Republican nomination, former state Rep. Phil Lyman, emphasized the distinctions they believed made them the better choice for GOP voters in the June 23 primary.
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- Legendary poet Carol Lynn Pearson on how she loves ‘parts’ of the LDS Church — and ‘left’ others
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- 36:51
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- Carol Lynn Pearson, renowned Latter-day Saint poet, playwright and activist, began keeping a nearly daily diary when she was a senior at Brigham Young High School in 1956. And she never stopped.
The first of her four volumes, which is out now, reads like a chronicle of Mormonism’s intellectual history from the 1960s through 1980s.
Pearson, who grew up in Utah and now lives in California, comments on the battle over civil rights and the Equal Rights Amendment, as well as the issues of patriarchy and polygamy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Her first book of poetry, “Beginnings,“ sold an astounding 150,000 copies, making her one of Mormonism’s earliest celebrities. The feisty writer went on to produce several more bestsellers, including “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy” and “No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons Around Our Gay Loved Ones.”
Pearson is a lively storyteller as she recounts conversations ...
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- Behind the game: How the NBA's first female photographer gets the shot
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- 8:36
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- It might sound simple: Show up at the arena, take some photos from the sidelines of an NBA game and then go home. But it's not.
The Utah Jazz's Melissa Majchrzak was the first female NBA team photographer and remains one of just a few women in the game today. She walks us through what a game day looks like for her.
Video by Trent Nelson
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Crucial parts for the next Artemis mission just left Utah for Kennedy Space Center
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- When the Artemis III mission launches next year, marking a pivotal next step in NASA’s effort to return humans to the moon, they will be propelled off the launch pad by boosters made in Utah.
Reporting by: Paighten Harkins
Video by: Rick Egan
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- Full interview: Utah data center developer Kevin O'Leary reacts to 75% reduction demand
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- 27:40
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams, who chairs the powerful Utah board that approved the development of a massive data center in Box Elder County, now says celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary’s hyperscale data center plan is too large and needs greater environmental oversight.
“I’ve sent a letter directly to Kevin O’Leary calling for a 75% reduction in the proposed data center project area, from 40,000 acres to approximately 10,000 acres,” Senate President J. Stuart Adams said in a statement Monday announcing he’d written to O’Leary.
The Utah politician’s backpedaling comes after a month of intense public pressure against the data center, which Adams acknowledged Monday, citing “public feedback and further review” as his reason to call for scaling back the project.
The Salt Lake Tribune spoke to O’Leary via Zoom just hours after he received Adams’ public letter.
*A previous version of this video was uploaded ...
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- Taylor Frankie Paul can now see her youngest son without supervision after nearly 3 months
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- After two and a half months, Utah reality television star and influencer Taylor Frankie Paul will now be able to spend time with her 2-year-old son without supervision, a Utah commissioner ruled.
The change went into effect immediately and will last at least until the next scheduled court hearing on July 8, 3rd District Court Commissioner Russell Minas ordered.
Video by Trevor Christensen and Palak Jayswal of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Kevin O’Leary responds to ‘outrageous’ demand to slash data center plan
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary isn’t backing out of plans to build a hyperscale data center campus in Box Elder County, even after Utah’s top lawmaker on Monday called for the project to be dramatically scaled back.
“I’m not walking away,” O’Leary told The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday, hours after Senate President J. Stuart Adams sent a letter calling for a 75% reduction in the proposed 40,000-acre data center project. “It’s not who I am. I don’t work that way.”
The letter from Adams, who also chairs the board for the Utah Military Installation Development Authority that approved the development, prompted so much outrage, O’Leary said, that his phone “lit up like it was going to melt.”
The celebrity investor told The Salt Lake Tribune he didn’t hear from Adams ahead of receiving the letter and hasn’t yet talked to him about it.
It “didn’t go over well,” he said, because it’s not the agreed-upon...
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- Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen appear in Utah court for custody hearing
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- 1:04:45
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- After two and a half months, Utah reality television star and influencer Taylor Frankie Paul will be able to be with her two-year-old without supervision, a Utah court ruled.
Commissioner Russell Minas ruled that supervised visits will be lifted and Paul’s parent time with the child will match what is dictated by Utah Code from now until the next hearing in July.
Paul and her ex-partner Dakota Mortensen, who she shares the child with, returned to Utah’s Third District Court virtually on Monday, along with their legal times to review parent time.
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- Judge rules Tyler Robinson court hearing will remain open to the public in Charlie Kirk murder case
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- 9:32
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- Tyler Robinson’s attorneys asked Judge Tony Graf to close portions of the preliminary hearing, arguing that there might be evidence or testimony at the hearing that would not be admissible at trial. Letting the public hear that evidence, they argued, could taint a potential jury pool. The Salt Lake Tribune and other media entities opposed the motion, as did prosecutors.
Graf ruled in a virtual hearing on Monday that the media and the public have a “presumptive right” to access core court proceedings, and said the defense team had not shown that there was realistic likelihood that the evidence would prejudice Robinson’s right to a fair trial. He noted that much of the evidence that the defense team was concerned about was already known to the public and outlined in charging records.
Also on Monday, the judge announced that he would hold a hearing to determine whether to sanction prosecutors for speaking to journalists about bullet evidence in the case.<...
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- See what’s emerging in Glen Canyon as Lake Powell recedes
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- 3:11
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- The Bureau of Reclamation began filling Lake Powell in 1963, flooding narrow canyons that were once so lush with cottonwood trees that John Wesley Powell named the area Glen Canyon. The reservoir kept climbing, swallowing shrines sacred to several tribes, including the Diné, Hopi, Pueblo and Paiute people.
“There’s thousands of years of prayers here,” said Daryl Vigil, co-director of the Water & Tribes Initiative and former water administrator for the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
It took nearly twenty years for Lake Powell to fill to 3,700 feet in elevation. It only stayed near that level for two decades before climate change-induced drought and overuse started shrinking the flows of the Colorado, San Juan and other rivers that feed the reservoir.
Now Lake Powell teeters on the brink of collapse: Forecasts show it could drop to its lowest level since filling and reach elevations at which Glen Canyon Dam was not designed to operate. That could t...
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- How much water will Utah’s emergency drought recommendations really save?
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- Utah Gov. Spencer Cox declared a state of emergency due to the state’s drought conditions.
Cox’s declaration notes that all 29 of Utah’s counties are in severe drought, and that water supply forecasts project roughly 20% to 55% of normal this year.
What changes is Cox going to make as a result? I was struck by the merely suggestive language used throughout: cities, counties, suppliers and companies should “consider” making changes, while residents are “encouraged” to follow “recommendations.”
How much water will Utah’s emergency drought recommendations really save? Tribune data reporter Andy Larsen crunches the numbers.
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- Unmarked vans and chartered flights: How ICE is deporting people from Utah
- Runtime
- 8:38
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- The planes seem to come through Salt Lake City International Airport on a fairly routine schedule — twice a week, on Monday and Thursday mornings, usually landing around 10 a.m. and taking off by noon.
People in handcuffs and ankle restraints boarded at least two of them in recent months, Salt Lake Tribune journalists have observed.
But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not confirm any details about what it calls “removal flights,” citing “operational security concerns.”
The Salt Lake Tribune is a nonprofit newsroom and relies on support from people like you. Donate here on YouTube or at sltrib.com/give.
Reporting: Sean P. Means
Video: Abigail Landwehr & Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Utah postal workers are fed up and pushing back after attacks on mail-in ballots
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- Utah is one of eight states that allow for universal voting by mail. But, within months of President Donald Trump taking office again, the state’s Republican-led Legislature passed a law to begin moving away from that system.
Now, as many of those lawmakers face reelection, postal workers are launching a campaign to remind Utahns of the value they see in vote-by-mail.
In a TV ad that began airing in Utah on Thursday, a series of Americans who volunteered to be in the commercial — a nurse, a farmer, a firefighter, a young mother, a disabled woman — explain why they need to cast their ballot through the mail.
Reporting: Emily Anderson Stern
Video: Bethany Baker
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- A cafe with a converted ski gondola is tucked away in SLC’s Granary District
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- Hello, Eaters! Mecca Cafe is a gorgeous coffee shop slightly hidden inside the Industry co-working space at 650 S. 500 West in Salt Lake City’s Granary District.
When you go inside, you’ll probably notice the ski gondola that’s been converted into a bar; that’s part of Mecca Cafe’s “sister business,” Mecca Bar Co., which provides mobile bar services for cocktails, espresso and other beverages.
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- ‘Rejected’: Voters won’t get a say on Box Elder data center, county attorney says
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- 0:39
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Opponents of the hyperscale data center said they plan to take legal action after Box Elder County ruled residents will not have a chance to challenge county commissioners’ decision to approve a hyperscale data center plan at the ballot box this fall.
“Following a mandatory legal review of these applications, Box Elder County Attorney Stephen R. Hadfield has officially determined that neither referendum is legally referable to voters,” the county said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “As a result, the referendum applications have been rejected.”
Hadform said the county had received three land use referendum applications and met the state legal standards.
A main group behind the referendum push, the Box Elder Accountability Referendum (BEAR), filed with the county earlier this month, seeking to challenge two resolutions passed by county commissioners: resolution 26-11, which officially gave county consent for the project, and resolution...
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- Proposed hyperscale data center may be near Indigenous burial sites, former tribal chairman believes
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Darren Parry, a former chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation who spoke on his own behalf, said he is worried that what he considers potential sacred burial sites could be trampled and paved over with the hyperscale data center proposed near this area of Box Elder County.
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- Utah's new, blue congressional district gets first debate
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Contenders for the Democratic nomination in Utah’s 1st Congressional District sparred Wednesday over the future of hyperscale data centers in the state during the only broadcast debate ahead of the June 23 primary.
The issue, driven to the forefront by a controversial project proposed in Box Elder County, pitted candidates Mike Farrell, who wants a nationwide ban on new data centers, Liban Mohamed, who said they shouldn’t be built where water is scarce, state Sen. Nate Blouin, who called for a moratorium on new construction, and former U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, who said regulations were needed to separate the good actors from the bad.
Candidates also sparred over the Great Salt Lake, healthcare, housing and more.
Video by Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Opponents of the Box Elder data center are hoping for a vote, but ready for a legal fight
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- The effort against the proposed hyperscale data center and energy campus proposed for Box Elder County is days away from finding out whether it has a clear path to the ballot — or if there is a legal battle ahead.
“Right now we’re just in the waiting stage,” said Brenna Williams, an organizer with Box Elder Accountability Referendum, or BEAR, during a forum at the Box Elder County fairgrounds Tuesday night. “Thursday, we should get an answer on whether we’re gathering signatures next week or getting involved in a lawsuit next week.”
Video by Trevor Christensen of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- The ‘crisis’ of members leaving the LDS Church
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- 52:36
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Jeff Strong, a former bishop, mission president and BYU faculty member, finds himself in a similar position to an increasing number of parents in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While he remains a believing, practicing and devout member, he has loved ones (including three of his five children) who have left the faith. Thus, his new book, titled “Torn: Why People We Love Are Leaving the Church and What We Can Learn From Them,” is more than instructive and insightful; it’s personal.
The volume includes a sweeping study on Latter-day Saint disaffiliation, revealing that about 40% of active members in the United States have stopped participating over the past quarter century.
Why is that? Is it church doctrine, policy or culture? Is it, for instance, the faith’s opposition to same-sex marriage or the occasionally cruel comments about the LGBTQ+ community that may spring up in Sunday school? Does the tension come from the racist remarks Bri...
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- Cache County bans feeding wild turkeys, other animals after issues in Mendon, Utah
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- For years, a northern Utah town has faced torment from turkeys. Here’s how the county is trying to help.
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- Prescribed burn near Great Salt Lake
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- A column of smoke seen Monday towering above Salt Lake City’s skyscrapers has drawn a lot of attention — but it shouldn’t be a cause for concern.
Fire officials confirmed that the black plume is from a controlled burn east of the Great Salt Lake.
The fire is meant to help control the growth of phragmites, a water-guzzling invasive species that has taken over the shores of the lake.
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- Memorial Day Weekend Highlight
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- 8:16
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- The Weekend Highlight is a new series that recaps Tribune reporting from around the newsroom. This week’s video features reporting on book banning in Utah schools, a new co-op grocery store in Salt Lake City, a gas station that caters chicken strips and a story on a new planned data center in Utah. No, no that data center, a different one.
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- The best trails in Salt Lake City — picked by hikers
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- 5:58
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- What are the best hikes near Salt Lake City?
The hiking platform AllTrails ranked the top ten most popular trails within easy reach of Utah's capital city. From alpine lakes and mountain summits to scenic canyon trails, these hikes showcase some of the most popular outdoor destinations along the Wasatch Front.
10 – Circle All Peak - https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/circle-awl-peak
9 – Jack's Mountain - https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/jacks-mountain
8 – Dog Lake via Mill D North Fork Trail - https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/dog-lake-mill-d-north-fork-trail
7 – Big Cottonwood Scenic Byway - https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/big-cottonwood-canyon-scenic-byway
6 – Desolation Lake - https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/lake-desolation-mill-d-north-trail
5 - Ensign Peak - https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/ensign-peak-trail-and-overlook
4 – Twin Peaks - https://www.alltrails.com/trai...
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- Grab some pizza by Liberty Park at this new Roman-style restaurant
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Hello, Eaters! Via Veneto Pizzarium, at 511 E. 900 South in Salt Lake City, is a new casual dining spot from the couple behind the Italian restaurant Veneto down the street, Amy and Marco Stevanoni.
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- The pandemic created a new normal with rush hour traffic. Here's how to improve your commute.
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Utah transportation officials say there isn’t one magic bullet to defeat traffic, but there are a few tips and tricks drivers can use to make a painful commute go down easier.
Video by Abigail Landwehr of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Why Black LDS members sometimes 'don't feel safe' at church
- Runtime
- 44:56
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Ronell Hugh says he was recently hiking a trail in Highland, Utah, when a white man in a gray truck leaned out his window and shouted a racist threat.
It was a moment both startling and deeply troubling for the president of the Genesis Group, a support organization for Black Latter-day Saints.
Hugh hadn’t been threatened like that before since living in the Beehive State. But he had heard lots of stories from other members of his Black congregation, who told him that racism has been on the rise due to the current political climate in the country as well as in Utah, where The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the dominant religious institution.
On this week’s show, Hugh, a Latter-day Saint convert and marketing executive who most recently worked for church-owned Deseret Book, discusses the increase in racial tension, what top church leaders have said about it and how Latter-day Saints can counter the sin of racism.
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- Lawyers argue to close Tyler Robinson court hearing to the public — full hearing
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- 1:49:54
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Tyler Robinson, who is accused of killing Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, appeared in person in court May 19.
Two issues were argued in front of 4th District Judge Tony Graf.
The first issue was if the preliminary hearing or portions of the hearing should be closed to the public and media.
The second issue was whether there should be a sanctions hearing after prosecutors spoke to journalists because they believe the defense mischaracterized the conclusions of an ATF report that said there wasn’t conclusive evidence to determine if the bullet came from Tyler Robinson’s rifle.
The judge will rule on both issues on June 1.
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- Argentina’s Cafe serves up a taste of South America in SLC
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Argentina’s Cafe, at 655 E. 400 South in Salt Lake City, is a new coffee shop that’s all about Argentinian empanadas, pastries, coffee and culture.
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- Wasatch Food Co-op, a new co-op grocery in SLC, is set to open this week
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- The Wasatch Food Co-op, in the Milk Block on 900 South, has been almost 20 years in the making.
Video by Abigail Landwehr of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- The Salt Lake Tribune has dropped its paywall
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- For the first time in its 155 years, and after years of planning, The Salt Lake Tribune is making its daily journalism free to anyone.
The shift means Utah’s flagship news organization is moving from a subscriber model to a member-driven one, where support isn’t necessary to access the news on sltrib.com.
While the news is now free, it’s not free to produce. As a nonprofit newsroom, we need the support of our readers to do this work. Donate on YouTube or visit sltrib.com/donate to support free local news.
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- In Utah, nearly all statewide book bans originate from just two school districts
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Across all Utah public schools, every district copy of each banned book must be destroyed, according to state law.
Video by Abigail Landwehr of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- This inconspicuous Utah spot has a cult following for its chicken strips
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- At first, this small town wasn’t thrilled to welcome a gas station to Main Street. Now, its food is requested at weddings.
Video by Trent Nelson of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- These SLC establishments blur the lines between restaurant, bar, coffee shop and ‘new age mall’
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- As many restaurants struggle to get by, and people drink less alcohol when they go out, some establishments seem to be experimenting with ways to maximize the earning potential of their lease.
Here's how.
Video by Abigail Landwehr of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Another Utah data center faces overwhelming opposition from locals
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- More than 130 people packed a meeting room in Iron County’s Festival Hall Thursday evening to raise alarms and questions about a proposed data center and natural gas plant.
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- The Salt Lake Tribune just removed its paywall
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- For the first time in its 155 years, and after years of planning, The Salt Lake Tribune is making its daily journalism free to anyone.
The shift means Utah’s flagship news organization is moving from a subscriber model to a member-driven one, where support isn’t necessary to access the news.
The news is now free, but it’s not free to produce. As a nonprofit newsroom, we need the support of our followers to do this work. Donate through YouTube or visit sltrib.com/give to help.
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- How Box Elder County residents plan to stop a massive data center
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- An effort called the Box Elder Accountability Referendum — or BEAR — hopes to put the decision to build a data center, backed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary of TV’s “Shark Tank,” in northern Utah to voters.
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- Kouri Richins gets life in prison for husband’s murder
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Kouri Richins will spend the rest of her life in prison for fatally poisoning her husband, a Utah judge ruled Wednesday.
It was the maximum sentence that 3rd District Judge Richard Mrazik could order after Richins was convicted of aggravated murder and other crimes in her husband’s 2022 fentanyl overdose death. But it was what she deserved, the judge said, after trying twice to poison Eric Richins.
Kouri, the judge said, was “too dangerous to ever be free.”
Reporting: Jordan Miller and Jessica Schreifels
Video: Abigail Landwehr
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Judge sentences Kouri Richins to life in prison for husband’s murder: Full court hearing
- Runtime
- 3:57:57
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Kouri Richins will spend the rest of her life in prison for fatally poisoning her husband, a Utah judge ruled Wednesday.
It was the maximum sentence that 3rd District Judge Richard Mrazik could order after Richins was convicted of aggravated murder and other crimes in her husband’s 2022 fentanyl overdose death. But it was what she deserved, the judge said, after trying twice to poison Eric Richins.
Kouri, the judge said, was “too dangerous to ever be free.”
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- For the first time, Kouri Richins speaks publicly in court
- Runtime
- 40:52
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Kouri Richins, who was convicted of murdering her husband, Eric Richins, spoke for the first time in court on May 13, 2026.
In March, jurors deliberated for three hours before they found Richins guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins. She was also found guilty of attempted aggravated murder, two counts of insurance fraud and one count of forgery. She did not testify in her own defense.
Richins was charged in May 2023, months after she published a children’s book about grief.
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- Friction is what causes growth, says author Robin Ritch
- Runtime
- 0:27
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- It’s the late 1960s to mid-1970s. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues a century-old priesthood and temple ban against its Black members. It takes a high-profile public stance against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. And a persistent patriarchy urges women to abandon careers and return home to care for their children and husbands — all the while limiting their leadership and other opportunities within the religion.
These policies and practices created friction for a number of working women in the church. But rather than leave the fold, a number of talented trailblazers chose instead to turn to Christ and seek personal answers to private prayers to carve their own paths and not only stay true to the faith — and their ambitions — but also emerge even stronger.
On this week’s show, Robin Ritch discusses their journeys, which she documents in her newly released book, “Using Friction to Grow.”
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- ‘Mormon Land’: Women who pursued careers when LDS leaders were counseling against it
- Runtime
- 34:36
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- It’s the late 1960s to mid-1970s. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues a century-old priesthood and temple ban against its Black members. It takes a high-profile public stance against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. And a persistent patriarchy urges women to abandon careers and return home to care for their children and husbands — all the while limiting their leadership and other opportunities within the religion.
These policies and practices created friction for a number of working women in the church. But rather than leave the fold, a number of talented trailblazers chose instead to turn to Christ and seek personal answers to private prayers to carve their own paths and not only stay true to the faith — and their ambitions — but also emerge even stronger.
On this week’s show, Robin Ritch discusses their journeys, which she documents in her newly released book, “Using Friction to Grow.”
- Title
- The billboards every Utahn knows are back
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Julia Reagan’s smiling face looked out from billboards across the country for a year — a tribute from her husband, William Reagan, founder of Reagan Outdoor Advertising, following the death of the company’s longtime matriarch. Then they disappeared. But as promised, they're back for a limited time.
The billboards will return each year, going back up two weeks before Memorial Day and staying up for 30 days to honor Julia’s memory as an annual tradition, Reagan said.
Video: Abigail Landwehr
The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Bad news for water supply: Lake Powell and much of Utah on track for worst water year on record
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- The outlook for Lake Powell keeps getting worse.
The latest water supply forecast for the nation’s second largest reservoir dropped by 600,000 acre-feet from last month’s projections. The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center now expects Powell will only receive 800,000 acre-feet of water — or roughly 13% of its average.
That would be the lowest flow into Lake Powell on record, said Cody Moser, forecaster with the center. The current record low happened in 2002, when Powell received 964,000 acre-feet, he added.
After a record-hot March and early peak runoff, Powell has already received about half of that forecasted water supply as of May 6, Moser said.
Video by Abigail Landwehr of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Utahns react to the massive data center approved in their backyard
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- Box Elder residents say the major data center project backed by “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary could endanger the area’s water supply and quiet atmosphere.
Video by Trevor Christensen of The Salt Lake Tribune.
- Title
- Utah Supreme Court justice resigns effective immediately
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
- Description
- Under intense pressure from Republican leaders, including Gov. Spencer Cox, Justice Diana Hagen resigned from the Utah Supreme Court on Friday.
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- A BYU dean wrote in support of a man charged with child sex abuse crimes. It’s not an isolated case.
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Latter-day Saint bishops and other people connected to the church have vouched for defendants accused of serious crimes — even as the church itself has discouraged such interventions as potentially harmful.
And behind the scenes, a Salt Lake Tribune inquiry revealed, some Utah County prosecutors have taken an unusual step when letters like these appear: They contact Kirton McConkie, the outside law firm which represents the LDS Church, whose lawyers then instruct the bishop to withdraw the submission, the office confirmed.
That practice raises its own ethical concerns. One legal expert told The Tribune it is “wholly inappropriate” for prosecutors to try to limit this type of material from a judge making a weighty decision about whether to grant bail or how long someone should spend in prison.
Reporting: Jessica Schreifels
Video: Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Box Elder voters may have chance to overturn decision on ‘hyperscale’ data center project
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Voters in Box Elder County may have a chance to overturn the county commission’s decision to approve the development of a “hyperscale” data center if enough support is gathered to create a land use referendum — although the county’s top elections official cautions the legality of such a referendum is still being reviewed.
On Tuesday, a small group of voters filed an application with the county in an effort to potentially halt the project, Box Elder County Clerk Marla Young told The Salt Lake Tribune in an interview on Wednesday.
The application was filed one day after the county commissioners — despite widespread public opposition — unanimously approved creating the project area for the Military Installation Development Authority to develop.
Reporting: Addy Baird
Video: Abigail Landwehr
The Salt Lake Tribune
