The Salt Lake Tribune
Prop 4 repeal will not make the 2026 ballot in Utah
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- Prop 4 repeal will not make the 2026 ballot in Utah
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 2 months 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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- 31:26
- Date posted
- 2 months 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
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 2 months 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
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 3 months 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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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 3 months 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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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 3 months 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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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 3 months 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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- 0:39
- Date posted
- 3 months 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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- 36:01
- Date posted
- 3 months 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
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 3 months 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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- 32:51
- Date posted
- 3 months 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
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 3 months 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
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 3 months 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
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- 14:35
- Date posted
- 3 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’
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- 0:39
- Date posted
- 3 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
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 3 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
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- 2:26
- Date posted
- 3 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.
A draft version of this video was accidentally published. It has been removed and replaced with a corrected version.
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- SLC's Old Cuss Cafe started as a coffee trailer but is now a cozy restaurant and coffee shop
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 3 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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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 3 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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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 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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- 30:35
- Date posted
- 3 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.
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- Kouri Richins murder trial police body camera footage shows the day Eric Richins died
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- 36:16
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- This edited police body camera footage was shown during the first day of the trial of Kouri Richins, who is accused of killing her husband, Eric.
Richins told police she found Eric, who was 39, cold to the touch in their bed around 3 a.m. on March 4, 2022, in the Kamas home they shared with their three sons.
Summit County prosecutors contend that Richins, who was “chronically unhappy in her marriage,” poisoned her husband, laying out a timeline that includes her making and serving him a drink before he went to bed that night.
Defense attorneys say prosecutors "can’t show you that she did kill her husband.”
The trial in Park City began Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, and is expected to last about five weeks.
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- Kouri Richins murder trial starts, putting Utah in the true-crime spotlight
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Prosecutors will focus on the reasons Kouri Richins had for killing her husband, her defense attorney told jurors Monday, and here’s why: “They can’t show you that she did kill her husband.”
Richins told police she found Eric Richins, 39, cold to the touch in their bed around 3 a.m. on March 4, 2022, in the Kamas home they shared with their three sons.
“What you will never hear, after four years of investigation, where as recently as two weeks ago they were back searching that house … is how that fentanyl got inside of him, because there’s zero evidence of that,” Kathy Nester, Richins’ attorney, said Monday in the opening arguments of her aggravated murder trial in Park City.
“His death certificate reads that the manner of his death is still unknown,” Nester said, “to this day.”
The estimated five-week trial, scheduled to run through March 26, has captured national attention and is being livestreamed by multi...
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- Velour, the iconic music venue behind Imagine Dragons and Neon Trees, reaches a milestone
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- The green room at Velour Live Music Gallery has a certain sacredness about it.
Before taking the stage, countless musicians have waited within these four walls that are decked in eclectic decor. Vintage records plaster the walls, while mismatched pillows and cushy chairs invite you in.
The Doors, Simon & Garfunkel, Cher and Elvis Presley say hi from record sleeves. Donna Summer, Bruce Springsteen and Jimi Hendrix are all here, too. Not to mention a signed version of Donny Osmond’s “Rolling Stone” cover.
They may not have performed here, but these music greats have watched over the talent that has graced Velour since its inception.
This year marks an impressive milestone for the concert hall: it’s been 20 years since the venue began putting a Utah-shaped imprint on the music industry.
For two decades, owner Corey Fox — and lucky fans — have experienced the Utah music scene’s largest names. Fox has launched th...
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- No snow, no problem? Inside Utah’s high-stakes plan for the 2034 Olympics.
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- A tangled, white ribbon wrapped around brown hills and barren shrubs at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center on Tuesday. It’s a little more than a week before the start of the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy. It’s also exactly two weeks and eight years before Utah takes the stage to host its second Winter Games.
Yet the prospect of hosting elite-level snowsport competitions here is difficult to fathom given the incessant lack of snow and persistent warm temperatures.
That’s especially true at Soldier Hollow. At an elevation of 6,000 feet, it’s the lowest base among Utah’s 2034 venues, and most at the mercy of climate change. Local organizers acknowledge the fact, and a recent study said the venue — which is slated to host biathlon and cross country races — could be too warm to reliably host both Games in the near future.
“We’ve gotten less than three inches of snow this winter, so that’s been interesting,” s...
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- It’s a high-end Mexican restaurant. It’s a tiny cafe. In SLC’s Post District, it’s both.
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- 0:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Hello, Eaters! New restaurants keep popping up in the Post District at 500 South and 300 West in Salt Lake City, and the newest is La Casa Del Tamal, with the attached Azucar Cafecito Bar.
It is a high-end Mexican restaurant and a small coffee bar, both owned by the same family.
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- Alta Utah's mining past uncovered
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Jeremy Moore found the first days of the excavation of the ground under Alta Ski Area pretty mundane, especially by archeological standards.
The resort was installing snowmaking pipes along a flat stretch between its Albion and Wildcat bases. Now home to the Transfer Tow, it was known as Water Street during the Town of Alta‘s mining heyday. In the first day and a half of digging last summer, Moore saw mostly dirt.
Then the bones emerged. And bottles. Boot soles and shards of fine china and ink wells. And bullets – lots of bullets.
“At the end of that second day,” he said, “we started pulling out hundreds and hundreds of artifacts.”
Moore, a professional archeologist brought in by the U.S. Forest Service to oversee the dig as a matter of protocol, realized he needed more eyes and hands on site. He tracked down representatives from the Utah State Historic Preservation Office for help. That agency then called upon its robust ...
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- Humorist Eli McCann and his husband discuss the laughs and love they find in LDS culture
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- 44:56
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Faithful Salt Lake Tribune readers know Eli McCann well. He’s the award-winning columnist who has them cracking up about coming out as a coffee drinker one minute and tearing up about the Latter-day Saint youth group in the western Pacific who won his heart the next.
Now his monthly humor columns have been compiled into one bright, breezy book. Titled “We’re Thankful for the Moisture: A Gay Guy’s Guide to Mormon Faith, Family, and Fruit Preservation.”
It’s a valentine of sorts to Latter-day Saint culture, containing classics like his first date with his future, non-Mormon husband at, of all places, the Kirtland Temple; his adventures — and misadventures — in the kitchen after unearthing a missionary cookbook; and the awkward — but somehow appropriate — chuckles he shared with a bishop when he signed his resignation letter from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A practicing attorney, Eli lives is Salt Lake City wi...
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- Teenagers help move small airplane off Utah highway
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- A group of teenage friends helped push a small airplane off the side of a Utah highway after it ran out of fuel.
The plane landed on Legacy Parkway on Sunday evening. None of the four people on board was injured.
Video by Bethany Baker
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Are LDS communities uniquely vulnerable to people like Ruby Franke & Jodi Hildebrandt?
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- 1:10:23
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- There is no shortage of documentaries detailing the crimes of Ruby Franke and Hildebrandt. On this ‘Mormons in Media’ crossover, we unpack the Netflix documentary ‘Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story’ and the Hulu docuseries ‘Devil in the Family: The fall of Ruby Franke.’ Rebbie and Nicole are joined by Salt Lake Tribune columnist Eli McCann to talk child exploitation, manipulation, vulnerablity and critical thinking.
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- New LDS apostle on immigrants and the church
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- 0:33
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Newly ordained apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Clark Gilbert spoke to The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday touching on multiple subjects related to the church.
“The challenge for us is to respect the rule of law while treating people with dignity and kindness and respect and opportunity," Gilbert said on immigration.
Video by Chris Samuels of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- This man goes BIG for his wife on Valentine's Day. See what this year's surprise was.
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Lonnie Anderson was grabbing a quick bite at a Portland, Oregon, bar in the 1990s when he wandered over to a nearby table and struck up a conversation with a friend.
Sitting at the same table was Anne Bolger-Witherspoon — the woman he would later marry.
After they started dating, Anderson began marking Valentine’s Day with elaborate, but low cost, displays. For their first Valentine’s as a couple, he turned Bolger-Witherspoon’s living room into a life-size Candy Land board, complete with a giant cardboard die.
Over the years, the displays grew bigger — and more public. What started as private gestures eventually drew national attention, including from NBC’s Today show in 2016.
This year, Anderson brought the gesture to northern Utah, returning to the candy theme by giving his wife an entire candy store for the day.
The display landed at Bluebird Candy Co. in Logan, a Utah institution since 1914, known for its ...
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- New LDS apostle Clark Gilbert talks about orthodoxy, BYU, immigration, same-sex marriage
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- 19:29
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Clark Gilbert has long been known as a “disruptive innovator” — particularly at the church-owned Deseret News and Brigham Young University — but this week’s lifetime call as an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not disrupt any of his future plans.
“In some ways, the path to this started in Boston, when we were first asked to pray about a different route,” Gilbert told The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday. “I was up for tenure at Harvard Business School and had offers to go to other schools. So when Kim Clark asked us to come to [Brigham Young University-Idaho] that really pivoted our life from then on.”
That doesn’t mean Gilbert, who has been serving as the church’s education commissioner, wasn’t taken aback (at 55, he’s the youngest apostle in two decades) when church President Dallin H. Oaks called him Wednesday to join the faith’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Gilbert and his wife, Christine,...
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- Battle over public trails on Utah mountains escalates as private rancher blocks paths
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Curtis Godfrey has spent his entire 72 years in Clarkston, a small northern Utah farming town of about 750 people, tucked by the western slopes of Clarkston Mountain.
As a boy, Godfrey said he often roamed the mountain trails on horseback and hiked through Winter Canyon, a rugged landscape familiar to generations of families in his hometown.
Over the years, he returned with his children — and later with Boy Scout troops — clearing brush and helping maintain the narrow paths that wind up the mountain’s steep slopes.
“My first few times going up there were always on a horse. We’d have them shuttling the ponies and the first time I went up, I was like 10, 12 years old, and I was bareback on one of those,” Godfrey said, laughing at the memory. “It was just me, my brother, and some friends.”
The mountains form the western edge of Cache Valley along the Utah–Idaho border, part of the Malad Range and crowned by the 8,200-fo...
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- LDS historian Richard Bushman hopes the church speaks out on the inhuman treatment of immigrants
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- At 94, Latter-day Saint historian Richard Bushman speaks about the church presidents he has known, the challenges the faith has faced, the changes he has witnessed, the histories he has written, and the future he embraces.
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- Why Richard Bushman, the dean of LDS historians, would welcome the Second Coming of Jesus
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- 37:27
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- By all accounts, Richard Bushman could be considered the patriarch of Mormon history.
For more than nine decades, he has lived it, studied it, analyzed it, shared it with fellow believers and explained it to nonbelievers.
The soft-spoken scholar — with three degrees from Harvard and a drive toward understanding truth — has been writing about Mormonism for much of his academic career. He is a giant in his field and a mentor to many young historians.
He penned a seminal biography of Joseph Smith, founder The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and later published an examination of the importance of Smith’s “gold plates,” from which sprang the Book of Mormon.
To many, the emeritus history professor from Columbia University is a dream representative of the Utah-based faith — quiet, reasoned, faithful but open and willing to ask hard questions.
So what has he seen of the church in his 94 years? What eras w...
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- ‘We want change’: Utah students organize school walkouts to protest ICE
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Hundreds of Salt Lake County students walked out of class Friday to protest the ongoing immigration enforcement crackdown under President Donald Trump’s administration.
The walkouts came a week after many other schools also walked out on Friday, Jan. 30, as part of a national general strike that called for no school and no work in protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
At Skyline High School this Friday, students left class at about 11:20 a.m. and marched toward Big Cottonwood Regional Park, where they intended to meet up with other student protesters from Olympus High School.
Video by Rick Egan, Palak Jayswal and community members
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- Students and community members protest Border Patrol at BYU job fair
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Brigham Young University students, alumni and others protested Thursday against Border Patrol’s presence at a job fair on the Provo campus, chanting “BYU get ICE out” and “Border Patrol has got to go.”
Video by Francisco Kjolseth
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Border Patrol detentions at Utah auto shop spark questions about warrantless arrests
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- As Wilmer Menjivar pulled into work at Viper Auto Care on Friday morning, he knew something was off, according to his wife, Lily Gonzalez.
Unmarked cars had followed him there, she said, so he got out of his truck and went into the shop, locking the door behind him.
“He went into the place of business thinking he was going to be safe in there without a warrant,” Gonzalez said. “But, turns out, he wasn’t. That’s not what happened at all.”
Instead, federal law enforcement agents wearing Border Patrol tactical vests broke into the shop by smashing the windows of the front door. Then, they arrested Menjivar and his boss, shop owner Ismael Avalos.
When Gonzalez showed up, she asked agents to show her a warrant, and they told her they didn’t need one. A video that Gonzalez recorded of the encounter and posted online swept through the internet last weekend, garnering attention from at least three national politics accounts on t...
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- Can the father of a UVU student at Charlie Kirk’s last event ethically prosecute the accused killer?
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- The freshman testified on Tuesday during a court hearing for Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson. Her father is Deputy Utah County Attorney Chad Grunander, and he’s part of the team litigating the potential death penalty case against Robinson.
Robinson’s defense team has argued that Grunander’s daughter attending the UVU event creates a disqualifying conflict of interest. They’ve asked a judge to ban the entire Utah County attorney’s office from handling the case against 22-year-old Robinson.
Grunander, a long-time prosecutor, may not be able to fairly handle Robinson’s case, they contend, adding that Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray has made no efforts to wall him off.
The Utah County attorney’s office has pushed back, arguing that Grunander doesn’t have a conflict that requires the lawyer — or his entire team — to be disqualified.
Reporting: Jessica Schreifels
Video: Trent Nelson and Trevor Christensen
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- Mormon Land podcast: Cindy Sandberg talks about her experiences from the front lines in Minneapolis
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- In this week's podcast, we hear from Latter-day Saint believers who are trying relieve suffering on the front lines of the ICE raids in beleaguered Minneapolis.
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- What Minneapolis Latter-day Saints wish other members knew about life under ICE
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- 39:34
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Daily life in and around Minneapolis has taken on a sharper edge since the federal government unleashed a mass deportation campaign in the city.
Raids on suspected immigrants have become a common occurrence, observers on the ground report. Gas-mask-wearing protesters take frequently to frozen streets. Twice federal agents have shot and killed U.S. citizens, 37-year-old Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Amid this chaos, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have sought to replace fear and isolation with faith and service — even as the church’s top leaders have remained largely silent on the issue.
On this week’s show, Cindy Sandberg and John Gustav-Wrathall talk about their experiences from the front lines in the beleaguered city.
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- Utahns protest ICE in Salt Lake City and across the state during ‘National Shutdown’
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Utahns gathered at Salt Lake City Hall before marching as part of a “National Shutdown,” organized to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Their agents killed Silverio Villegas González in a Chicago suburb in September, Keith “Pooter” Porter Jr. in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve, and Good and Alex Pretti less than a month apart in Minneapolis.
In cities across the state on Friday, from Ogden to St. George, business owners closed their doors and students walked out of classes in support of the national effort. More events were planned for Saturday across the state.
Protesters packed into Washington Square in Salt Lake City before the downtown march began, standing shoulder-to-shoulder and filling much of the park’s west side. They held signs and shouted chants including “Power to the people, no one is illegal,...
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- Moab, in Utah's high tourism area, joins in anti-ICE protests
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- 0:39
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Between 350 and 400 people marched from Swanny Park to City Hall and then to the intersection of Main and Center streets in Moab, Utah, to take part in what’s been dubbed a Nationwide Strike in opposition to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in Minneapolis.
Video by Lizzie Ramirez
The Times-Independent
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- Salt Lake City hosts anti-ICE protest
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- 0:38
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Utahns gathered at City Hall in Salt Lake City on Friday afternoon as part of a “National Shutdown” aimed at protesting President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration.
In cities across the state, business owners have closed their doors and students have walked out of classes in support of the national effort.
In Salt Lake City’s downtown, more than a thousand protesters packed into Washington Square. Together, they held signs and shouted chants including, “Power to the people, no one is illegal,” and, “No justice, no peace, we want ICE off our streets.”
Passing cars honked their horns. A banner hanging from City Hall read “SLC [loves] YOU.”
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- St. George, Utah, included in national anti-ICE protests
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- In St. George Friday, around 40 people gathered downtown on the corner of Main Street and St. George Boulevard to protest ICE. Drivers honked their horns as they passed, and the occasional driver yelled “go back to California” out their window.
Attendees ranged from local retirees to tourists taking time out of their vacation to protest. They held signs that said, “ICE out” and “The wrong ice is melting” while wearing shorts and T-shirts on a warm southwest Utah day.
Marie Straka was visiting from Minnesota, a state that has been a focal point of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. “I was involved in protesting at home in Minnesota,” she said. “It’s a lot easier here.”
She showed up to protest during her vacation because she wants immigrants to be protected, she added.
Peter Dowdle, a student at Southern Utah University, drove down to St. George for the protest from Cedar City.
“Let...
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- A musical break at the Utah Capitol
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Middle and high school students from Merit Preparatory Academy's Irish roots band spent a couple of hours entertaining guests at the Utah Capitol during the eighth day of the 2026 Legislative session Thursday.
Video by Jeff Parrott
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Students walk out of Hillcrest High School in Utah to protest ICE deportation tactics
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Utah students were walking out of classes Friday as part of the “National Shutdown” – which called for “no school, no work and no shopping” to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
In Midvale at about 10 a.m., hundreds of students walked out of Hillcrest High School, also carrying signs against ICE, and off campus into the community. Motorists honked as they flowed across Ft. Union Blvd.
Video by Jeff Dempsey
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Students walk out at Park City High School to protest Donald Trump and ICE
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- 0:29
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Park City High School students in Utah were out in front of the school around 8:30 a.m. Friday, as part of a national day of walkouts and a general strike to protest the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants in Minnesota. A couple of hundred students gathered with signs and chants, despite the temperature being about 22 degrees.
Video by Sean P. Means
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- George Zinn, who falsely claimed he killed Charlie Kirk, sentenced to prison
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In the chaotic moments after Charlie Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University, a man approached a detective who was searching for the killer and yelled, “I shot him! Now shoot me.”
But that man, George Zinn, had nothing to do with Kirk’s death.
Now, the 71-year-old is going to prison for making the false claim, which authorities say diverted law enforcement’s attention when they were trying to find the actual shooter.
Zinn pleaded no contest on Thursday to a third-degree felony charge of obstruction of justice. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, admitting that police found child sex abuse materials on his phone when they questioned him on Sept. 10 after he claimed he had killed Kirk.
Fourth District Court Judge Thomas Low sentenced Zinn to spend up to 15 years in prison for the crimes: Two one-to-15 year terms for the second-degree felony exploitation charges, and a zero-to-five year sentenc...
