The Salt Lake Tribune
2025 Annual report: How the nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune earned and spent money, plus what is next
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- 2025 Annual report: How the nonprofit Salt Lake Tribune earned and spent money, plus what is next
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- 2:54
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- 6 months ago
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- We’re proud to be a nonprofit Utah newsroom — in fact, The Salt Lake Tribune was the first legacy newspaper in the U.S. to transform from a for-profit company to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Since transparency is important to us, we publish an annual report to show where our funding came from and how we spent it. You can read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/footer/2025/11/21/tribunes-2025-annual-report/
Support our work on Giving Tuesday and keep the essential news and information flowing with a donation of any size at https://saltlaketribune.fundjournalism.org/donate/?campaign=701Rn00000rjQj8IAE
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- Community holds vigil to honor man killed by police in Salt Lake City
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- 1:25
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- 6 months ago
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- A vigil was held in Salt Lake City to honor José Hernández, an El Salvadorian immigrant who was and killed by police on October 29.
The event was attended by around 40 people, including community members and activists, who gathered to remember Hernández and advocate for immigrant rights.
Video by Bethany Baker
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- A new escape room in SLC transports visitors to Tokyo
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- 0:54
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- 6 months ago
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- To be transported to a fantastical, Japanese-inspired underground world, Utahns only need to descend a set of grungy stairs and open an unmarked door in downtown Salt Lake City.
A single step inside the subway vestibule of Himitsu Station, an immersive escape room located underneath the historic Peery Hotel at 110 W. Broadway, is enough to hook a visitor — what with its flickering lights and sounds of a subway platform.
The husband-and-wife duo who crafted the adventure — Jaysen and Destiny Batchelor — want visitors to feel like they are stepping into a different world.
Video by Palak Jayswal of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Meet Utah's genealogy influencer
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Kalima Watson is an ancestry detective, and he wants to help you get in touch with your family history because he knows it can change your life.
Now, Watson creates a steady stream of videos on social media so others can learn about their family history. He’s amassed nearly 200,000 followers on Instagram under his account, @justkalima.
Video by Francisco Kjolseth of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Why stories of the ‘Three Nephites’ continue to teach, tantalize and amuse members
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- 39:37
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- 6 months ago
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- If you ask members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints if they know about the “Three Nephites,” chances are most will know the allusion.
The story comes from the Book of Mormon in chapters where the risen Christ visits the Americas and chooses 12 apostles. Of those, three ask to linger in mortality until Jesus comes again, ministering to the people.
From the time when the book of scripture was first published until today, members have reported encounters with these shape-shifting strangers, who seem to pop up randomly angelic visitors of sorts sent to help people.
For decades, Brigham Young University professor William A. “Bert” Wilson, seen as “the father of Mormon folklore,” gathered these accounts. After he died in 2016, the collection went to one of his students, Julie Swallow, a teaching and learning consultant at the church-owned Provo school.
The collection now forms the nucleus of a new book, “The ...
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- Utah 2034: Why the state's next Winter Olympics dropped ‘Salt Lake City’ from its name
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- 0:26
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- 7 months ago
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- What’s in a name? When it comes to the official title of the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Games, not Salt Lake City.
At an event held Monday at the Salt Lake City International Airport to celebrate 3,000 days until the opening ceremony, local Olympics organizers announced the official name of the 2034 Winter Games and unveiled a new logo. Instead of adhering to the moniker used during the International Olympic Committee’s bid process — Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 — they opted for something considerably less verbose:
Utah 2034.
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- Latter-day Saint women welcome the news that they can serve missions at 18
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- 1:08
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- 7 months ago
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- Latter-day Saint missionaries are entering a new age of equality.
It’s 18.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that it is lowering the minimum age for female missionaries from 19 to 18, making it the same as for men.
“The First Presidency is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, young women who choose to serve a full-time mission may begin their service at age 18 following graduation from high school or its equivalent,” the governing First Presidency said in a news release. “While the Lord asks every worthy, able young man as part of his priesthood responsibility to prepare for and serve a mission, we reiterate that missionary service remains an optional [emphasis in the release] opportunity for young women.”
Reporting: Peggy Fletcher Stack
Video: Chris Samuels
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, it announces as it honors NewsMakers
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- 1:00
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- 7 months ago
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- A year ago, Lauren Gustus, The Salt Lake Tribune’s CEO and executive editor, told a ballroom full of donors that if the nonprofit newspaper could raise $1 million in a year, The Tribune’s website would drop its paywall.
On Thursday, during The Tribune’s annual fundraising gala, NewsMakers 2025, Gustus followed through with the commitment. Beginning sometime in the first quarter of 2026, she said, The Tribune’s reporting will be free to access online.
“The Tribune cannot afford to continue to limit who has access to independent and trusted news,” Gustus said. “Making the news is only the first step — we must also ensure people can find it."
Because The Tribune will soon be accessible without a paywall, Gustus asked supporters at Thursday’s gala to continue to financially support the paper so it can stay available for everyone.
Visit sltrib.com/donate to support The Tribune.
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- When top LDS Church leaders say jump, do members really just respond, ‘How high’?
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- 37:26
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- On this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, a BYU political scientist examines the clout top LDS leaders have with their own members on politics and public policy issues. Is it growing or lessening?
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- "Devastation": Century-old trees chopped down for northern Utah waterline project
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- 0:37
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- 7 months ago
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- Chainsaws echoed through Logan’s Island neighborhood on Monday as crews sliced into the thick trunks of century-old trees lining Canyon Road, clearing the way for a new waterline project.
Tree dust hung in the air, leaving a strong, woody smell as residents paused to watch — and photograph — the steady procession of falling limbs.
Among them was Anne Shifrer, a longtime Logan resident who paced up and down the road, taking in what she called the “devastation.”
Crews spent several minutes sawing through the massive trunk of a towering ash tree before it finally gave way, crashing onto the pavement with a deep, echoing boom.
“When I first came to Logan about 35 years ago, I thought this was the most beautiful street in town,” Shifrer said. She signed a petition that drew nearly 5,000 signatures aimed at stopping the removals. “It looked like a fairytale — enchanting — so this makes me very sad.”
Logan ...
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- Gov. Cox got national attention after the Charlie Kirk killing. Here’s how his views have shifted.
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- 9:12
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Spencer Cox first rose to the national scene in the wake of a shooting that shook the nation — a massacre at the Pulse Night Club, a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, that claimed 49 lives. At the time, in 2016, it was the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history.
Then Utah’s lieutenant governor, Cox won praise from pundits and politicos for his raw, compassionate words, confessing his regret over his mistreatment of gay classmates as a young high school student.
Now, nine years later, the second-term governor has found himself again on the national stage in the aftermath of more gun violence — a shooting that left prominent conservative activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk dead, cut down during an appearance at Orem’s Utah Valley University.
And Cox has used the platform to sound an alarm about corrosive political discourse and the dangerous path the nation is traveling.
“Every one of us has to make a decision. Are we goin...
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- Young people! For better or worse, tell us how you feel about us.
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- You follow us, but there is more we could be doing to reach young readers like you. What about The Salt Lake Tribune do you love that you think other people should know about? Tell us in the comments.
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- Utah Valley University President Astrid Tuminez talks about aftermath of Charlie Kirk shooting
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- 8:12
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- It’s been nearly two months since Charlie Kirk’s killing rattled Utah Valley University and the nation turned its eyes to the campus few were familiar with outside Utah.
The Salt Lake Tribune sat down with university President Astrid Tuminez to talk about how she has directed the school’s response, dealt with the attention, heard criticisms over security and tried to support students and staff.
The shooting also came at time when Tuminez was grieving her late husband. She spoke of balancing her role and her health, including going to therapy and encouraging others to ask for help.
Reporting: Courtney Tanner
Video: Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- A deep analysis of the 55 new LDS missions
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- 36:11
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- 7 months ago
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced plans to add 55 missions across the globe next year.
That’s the most since the Utah-based faith of 17.5 million members created 58 missions in 2013 and brings its total tally worldwide to 506.
At the same time, the current corps of full-time missionaries has topped 84,000 and, according to apostle Quentin Cook, convert baptisms during the first six months of 2025 ran 20% higher than the first half of last year.
So what do all these positive numbers mean when it comes to the pace and prospects of church growth now and in the future?
Independent researcher Matt Martinich, who tracks such data for the websites cumorah.com and ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com, wrote an analysis of the new missions and discusses his findings.
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- Salt Lake City Police shoot, kill suspect with rock
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- 8:25
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- This video contains graphic violence, viewer discretion is advised.
What started as a 911 call from a man trying to help his friend ended with a Salt Lake City police officer fatally shooting 47-year-old Jose Hernandez, according to a recording of the phone call and two body camera videos released Monday.
In the footage, Hernandez starts walking away from the officers, ignoring commands to drop the rock. After one officer swaps his firearm for a stun gun, Hernandez motions like he is going to throw the rock and then starts to run.
Hernandez runs across 300 West to the northwest corner of the intersection at 2100 South where he stops, turns and throws the rock at the closest pursuing officer. That officer fired at Hernandez, who fell to the ground and groaned. The videos then stop.
Hernandez later died at a hospital. The officer who fired his gun was injured and treated at a hospital, police said.
Read more here: https://w...
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- Will the LDS Church help a mother looking for formula for a hungry baby?
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- 1:57
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- 7 months ago
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- Will The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help a mother looking for formula for a hungry baby? It all depends — on the bishop. Here's an explanation of how welfare works in the church.
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- New LDS apostle Gérald Caussé on sustainability: 'Love and respect God’s creations'
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints named Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé on Thursday as its newest apostle, a Frenchman known for his ecclesiastical oversight of the faith’s financial empire and his support of Earth stewardship and sustainability.
Here's what he said about taking care of the planet in an exclusive interview.
Video by Chris Samuels of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Full interview: New LDS apostle Gérald Caussé on church finances, sustainability and temples
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- 12:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Picking Frenchman Gérald Caussé to fill a vacancy among the apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reinforces a powerful message: The 17.5 million-member church is not just a Utah or an American faith.
Indeed, said Caussé, who has now joined two other Europeans in the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — Dieter F. Uchtdorf of Germany and Patrick Kearon of Britain — “I’m global.”
Born in Bordeaux, the 62-year-old leader, whom church President Dallin H. Oaks appointed to his new lifetime post Thursday, has lived and served the church in four countries — France, Germany, England and the United States — and has traveled widely to many regions.
But it was growing up as a second-generation member (his parents joined when he was 6 months old) of a tiny U.S.-based faith that had the most impact on Caussé.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/11/07/tribune-interview-with-new-lds/
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- Country singer dating FBI director sues a Utah man for claiming she is a ‘honeypot’ Israeli spy
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Country singer Alexis Wilkins, who is dating FBI director Kash Patel, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against a Utah social media influencer — arguing the man fabricated his claim that she is an Israeli spy and is using his tale as “fund-raising click-bait.”
Read the full story:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/11/05/alexis-wilkins-girlfriend-fbi
(Video by: Trevor Christensen)
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- SLC’s Tower Theatre, closed for 5 years, just revealed its big renovation plan. Here’s what we know.
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The nonprofit that owns the Tower Theatre, built in 1928, just filed its preliminary designs with Salt Lake City building officials. The plan calls for new features, key restoration and more.
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- LDS Church names a new apostle, Gérald Caussé, who knows a lot about the faith’s money.
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints named Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé
on Thursday as its newest apostle, a Frenchman known for his ecclesiastical oversight of the faith’s financial empire and his support for Earth stewardship and sustainability.
Born in Bordeaux, the 62-year-old Caussé was the church’s 15th presiding bishop, in charge of shepherding the church’s real estate, financial, investment and humanitarian operations since October 2015. He was the third presiding bishop born outside the United States and the first for whom English is a second language.
He now joins two other Europeans in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Dieter F. Uchtdorf of Germany and Patrick Kearon of Britain.
Caussé has also been the point man on the church’s vast financial holdings, which have drawn significant attention in recent years.
Reporting: Peggy Fletcher Stack, Tamarra Kemsley and David Noyce
Video: ...
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- 'I’m so tired of having to find another day care': Parents angry Salt Lake County closing day cares
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- 2:29
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- 7 months ago
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- Salt Lake County says 271 families attend the four centers during the school year, and the number is closer to 300 during the summer. The five Republicans argued those services are not worth the $2 million the county spends on them each year.
Residents flooded the council’s meeting room Tuesday, sharing their frustration and sometimes tearfully asking the council to reconsider. The decision to close the centers won’t be final until the council approves its 2026 budget.
After the public comment period, council members voted down two motions to delay the closures. One, proposed by Winder Newton, would have kept the facilities open through May, with a 20% tuition increase. The other, proposed by Democrat Suzanne Harrison, would have raised the tuition 20%, but without a closing date — and would have directed Mayor Jenny Wilson to seek public-private partnerships to keep the day care facilities open.
Both motions failed on 4-4 party line votes. ...
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- 2025 Utah election wrap up
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Here's the latest on the November 2025 general election results for Salt Lake County, where most incumbents are doing well.
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- ‘Utah’s worst kept secret’: Ben McAdams will run again for Congress in ’26
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- “Shh, it’s a secret. Utah’s worst kept secret.”
That was the message a small group of Ben McAdams’ supporters received Tuesday night announcing that “Ben McAdams is running for Congress!”
The invitation to a formal campaign launch, scheduled for Nov. 13, comes even before anyone knows what the districts will look like for the 2026 congressional elections.
Tickets to the event, according to the message sent Tuesday, range from $1,000 to $7,000.
While McAdams, the last Utah Democrat to serve in Congress, had been reluctant to commit to a bid, a national political action committee — the Welcome PAC — had been urging him to run. He filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Elections Commission last month.
McAdams declined to comment Tuesday night.
His decision comes as 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson is still mulling which of three maps she will choose from next year’s midterm election....
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- Erika Carlsen declares victory in Salt Lake City Council District 5 election
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Salt Lake City Council District 5 candidate Erika Carlsen declared victory shortly after the first round of election results came in at an election watch party at Publik Coffee Roasters in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.
Video by Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Secret Lives of Mormon Wives vs. SLC Housewives: What's going on with Utah women and reality TV?
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- 1:07:29
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- On the November crossover episode between ‘Mormon Land’ and ‘Mormons in Media, ’ Rebbie and Nicole are joined by humor columnist Eli McCann to talk Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Rebbie is coming in blind to the Real Housewives franchise, so this go around, she's the one with the questions. The three discuss differences between 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' and 'Real Housewives of Salt Lake City' and why one is so much easier to consume than the other. How is the church represented in RHOSLC? Let's discuss.
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- Why was a "dirty" dancing class banned in Provo?
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Erica Tanner and her husband, Matson, are still reeling after the Provo Recreation Center abruptly dropped their Dirtylicious Dance Fitness classes. They were told this summer that the sometimes sexier dance moves didn’t adhere to the rec center’s standards and mission — an eviction that documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune now shine a clearer light on.
Dirtylicious includes sensual moves like twerking, body rolls, shimmying and slinky moves against the floor, a former class instructor and dancer concede — but they argue it’s not so different from the Zumba or U-Jam sessions still being offered at the center.
In a town that’s home to the private campus of Brigham Young University, sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in a state with a culture of perfectionism and morality policing that’s grabbed the national spotlight in shows like “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake C...
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- This may be the best street in Salt Lake City at celebrating Halloween
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- This Salt Lake City street takes Halloween very seriously. And hundreds of families come from all over to enjoy the festivities.
What did your neighborhood do for Halloween? Tell us in the comments if you think you have Windsor Street beat.
Video by Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Utah State University's Día de Los Muertos event
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Utah State University held a Día de Los Muertos event Thursday afternoon, including a traditional procession across campus.
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- LDS temple rituals have changed again and again. How and why?
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- 34:56
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- If there is a constant in the history of Latter-day Saint temple worship, it is change. Language used, covenants made, clothing worn and meaning ascribed to all of it — each has evolved since the early 1830s, when Joseph Smith introduced the idea of sacred rituals beyond baptism and confirmation.
In his newly published book, “Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Worship,” historian Jonathan Stapley explores those changes in greater detail than any other work to date.
Those changes have not only practical but also theological implications, he argues, for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the past and the present.
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- Widow of "No Kings" Salt Lake City shooting plans to sue
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- 5:45
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Four months after her husband was fatally shot at Salt Lake City’s “No Kings”
protest, Laura Ah Loo announced Wednesday that she plans to file a lawsuit
to achieve accountability in her husband’s death.
Arthur “Afa” Folasa Ah Loo, 39, was killed during the June 14. The shooter
was part of an armed, volunteer safety team for the demonstration.
Prosecutors haven’t released if they will pursue charges in Ah Loo’s death, and
they also haven’t specified what’s holding up that determination.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10/29/slc-no-kings-shooting-widow
Video by Francisco Kjolseth of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- LDS leadership succession could change under a 'bold' president
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- 49:06
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Of the major Western religious traditions in the United States, only The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints retains the service-until-death policy for its top leader.
Dallin H. Oaks, at age 93, became the 18th prophet-president of the faith, succeeding Russell M. Nelson, who died Sept. 27 at 101. Unlike a leader in any other American-based faith, Oaks will be expected to serve until the end of his life — as Nelson and 16 others did before him.
Oaks’ first counselor in the governing First Presidency, Henry B. Eyring, is 92. D. Todd Christofferson, his second counselor, is 80, one of four apostles in their 80s. Does this collective “gerontocracy” give rise to a stagnant, intractable, out-of-touch leadership? Would switching to a system that brings younger blood into the leadership invigorate the global faith of 17.5 million?
Historian Gregory Prince, who studied and written about these issues, discusses these, frankly, age-old quest...
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- Flying through SLC just got a new perk: An American Express Centurion Lounge
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The Salt Lake City International Airport experience just got a whole lot more elevated.
Two lounges, 10 gates and six concession areas are now open to travelers as part of phases 3 and 4 of the redeveloped airport. The new additions are all a part of concourse B.
The Delta Sky Club opened Monday and is the airline’s second-largest lounge, totaling about 34,000 square feet, according to a Delta news release. Eligible travelers — including Sky Club members — can access the lounge’s wraparound bar, soundproof booths and get a drink at a “dirty soda” bar unique to the Salt Lake City location. The location marks the airport’s second Delta lounge.
The American Express Centurion Lounge, meanwhile, opened Tuesday to eligible cardmembers. The 18,000-square-foot lounge includes a year-round outdoor terrace, a coffee bar and a “rejuvenation room” with leg compression massagers for weary travelers.
“I’ve been in this busines...
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- Sleeveless LDS garments are now available across the U.S.
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Latter-day Saints in Utah and across the U.S. have been itching to buy the faith's new sleeveless garments. Well, now they can — online and at church stores.
Read the full story:
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/10/28/sleeveless-lds-garments-are
Reporting by: Peggy Fletcher Stack, David Noyce, Dylan Eubank
Photos by: Dylan Eubank, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Rick Egan
Video by: Nicole Weaver
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- Thousands gather at the Utah Capitol for ‘No Kings’ protest
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Thousands of Utahns gathered in front of the Utah Capitol on a sunny Saturday — one of the many protests planned in all 50 states against the Trump administration’s actions over the last nine months.
Many hoisted signs and flags — some LGBTQ+ pride flags and others in red, white and blue. Some flew the American flag upside down, a symbol of distress.
The rally was held after a man was shot and killed in June during a “No Kings” march in downtown Salt Lake City.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10/18/after-afa-loo-was-killed-june-no
Video by Chris Samuels of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Lawyer to justice to prophet — the life of Dallin Oaks and what he is really like
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- 37:23
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- In this episode, historian Richard Turley discusses his book “In the Hands of the Lord: The Life of Dallin H. Oaks," which documents the personal journey of a church leader known for his devotion to religious liberty, his doctrinal dissections and his pointed preachings from the pulpit.
Oaks’ father died when he was 7 years old. Reared by his mother and his maternal grandparents, he committed himself to hard work and diligent scholarship.
He became a star student, earned a degree at one of the nation’s most prestigious law schools and launched a legal career that would see him rise to the Utah Supreme Court with whispers that he someday could land a seat on the country’s highest court.
Then, virtually overnight, Oaks changed his life’s trajectory, trading his career in the law for a commitment to his Lord. He accepted a call to be a Latter-day Saint apostle, a lifetime appointment in which he now serves as the faith’s prophet-president...
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- Box opening: New party game ‘Rumors & Nastiness’ by Meredith Marks from Real Housewives of SLC
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Will he speak out on political issues? What a scholar expects from new LDS prophet Dallin H. Oaks
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- 8:05
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Latter-day Saint historian Benjamin Park, author of “American Zion: A New History of Mormonism," talks about Dallin H. Oaks, the new prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Oaks is an institutionalist, a lawyer and judge, who has spoken out on political issues before, Parks says, but it isn't clear if he will keep talking about them now as church president.
"How is he going to function in the exceptionally partisan and divided community that seems to denounce the very types of institutions and traditions that he has long championed?"
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- How Dallin H. Oaks rose through the ranks to become the new president and prophet of the LDS Church
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- 9:59
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Matthew Bowman, the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and the author of 2012’s “The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith,” tells about how Dallin H. Oaks rose to the highest position in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and what to expect from the new prophet.
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- “We got hit pretty hard last night": Floods sweep through Southern Utah
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- 0:29
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- After a night of flooding, crews with the Pine Valley Fire Department started assessing their community on Saturday, checking homes for damage and looking for impacts left by the rainfall.
Robert Hardy, the department’s chief, said that while the community didn’t receive a significant amount of rain, the burn scar left by the Forsyth Fire compounded the problem.
“We got hit pretty hard last night,” he said.
Seven homes in Pine Valley have experienced mild to moderate flood damage as of Saturday afternoon, Hardy said.
One home experienced some basement flooding and another had about two feet of “muck” in the garage, Hardy said. Other homes just had a bit of water and mud seep in through the garage or entry door. No one, however, has been displaced, he said.
Cindy Gooch said she and her husband left their home on the opposite side of the Santa Clara River last night to check on homes under construction that he h...
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- Benson Boone surprises fans after Salt Lake City concert
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- You might not know much about Benson Boone, but you have heard of him. Or heard his voice.
After all, his single “Beautiful Things” exploded in 2024 and spread like wildfire across TikTok and music charts alike.
But during his set on Wednesday night — the first of three shows as part of a mini-residency at the Delta Center to close out the North American leg of his “American Heart World Tour” — music reporter Palak Jayswal became distinctly aware of him.
Read more about his first of three concerts in Salt Lake City. https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2025/10/09/benson-boone-kicks-off-delta/
Video from Jess Springer.
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- Dallin Oaks won’t be a ‘culture war president’ and other reflections on General Conference
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- 45:46
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The 195th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints looked much like any other in recent years.
There were talks by apostles and general authority Seventies, along with three women, punctuated by music by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and other Utah choirs.
But it might be remembered mostly for what didn’t happen.
It was presided over by the Dallin Oaks-led Quorum of the Twelve Apostles rather than by a church president and a reconstituted First Presidency.
That’s because President Russell M. Nelson died just a week before the two-day meetings and, by tradition, the three-man presidency is not reorganized until after the previous president’s funeral.
On top of that Oaks broke with conference tradition and announced no new temples. Nelson’s presumed successor said that Nelson “loved to announce new temples at the conclusion of each General Conference, and we all rejo...
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- Future of Bonneville Salt Flats racing in jeopardy as salt vanishes
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The Bonneville Salt Flats are renown among land speed racers. But a key part of the racing grounds has become increasingly harder to find — the flats’ famous salt crust.
Read the full story: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/10/08/future-bonneville-salt-flats
Reporting: Leia Larsen
Video: Bethany Baker
- Title
- Latter-day Saint leaders, family pay tribute to Russell M. Nelson at late president's funeral
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Thousands of Latter-day Saints gathered in Salt Lake City on Tuesday to remember the prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell M. Nelson, who died Sept. 27 at 101.
A funeral service was held in the Conference Center at noon, before Nelson's casket was taken by motorcade past crowds singing "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" and on to the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Video by Dylan Eubank and Trevor Christensen | The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Utah Jazz surprise Salt Lake City high school
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The Utah Jazz went back to high school this week.
Players surprised students at East High School in Salt Lake City on Monday, bringing the team’s annual scrimmage to the home of “High School Musical.”
As students filtered into the school’s gym for a surprise assembly, they were told they were there for a Jazz-sponsored celebration — not that the team itself would show up.
So when the Jazz sprinted through the gymnasium’s doors, the students went crazy, an energy they kept throughout the two 10-minute halves of play. The scrimmage took on the character of your average NBA All-Star Game, with no defense and oodles of highlight reel dunks.
Video by Chris Samuels of The Salt Lake Tribune.
- Title
- Gerrymandered maps redrawn: Utah Legislature picks new congressional map
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Utah Republican lawmakers pushed through a new congressional map — drawn under protest due to a court’s order — that would give the GOP an advantage in all four of the state’s U.S. House districts, but also gives the minority Democrats at least a fighting chance in one competitive district.
The newly adopted map creates an east-west split of Salt Lake County, with the eastern portion of the county being combined with the northern part of Utah County and other counties to the east. The western half of Salt Lake County would be combined with Tooele County to create one of the four districts.
The map must still be approved by a judge before it can be implemented. But Republican lawmakers also approved legislation, sponsored by Sen. Brady Brammer, R-Pleasant Grove, to restrict what metrics the judge can use to determine if the maps are a partisan gerrymander or not, adopting a trio of tests Monday that are the sole criteria the courts can consider.
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- Title
- Latter-day Saints pay respects to Russell M. Nelson at public viewing
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Under half-staff flags, hundreds filed into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Monday to honor the Utah-based faith’s late President Russell M. Nelson during a public viewing.
Nelson died Sept. 27 at 101, making him the oldest church leader in the faith’s history. The centenarian took the leadership helm in 2018 and was known, in part, for his temple construction spree, announcing 200 new buildings across the globe.
Reporting and video: Dylan Eubank | The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Dallin Oaks was a close Russell Nelson ally, but he could change the church’s direction
- Runtime
- 30:59
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- As accolades and adoration continue to pour in after the death of President Russell M. Nelson, it could be time to assess the historical perspective and place of the oldest prophet-president in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
What will be his legacy? How did his leadership and innovations impact the global faith?
Then there’s the question of how his presumed successor, Dallin H. Oaks, will be “chosen,” how he might lead, how he will navigate the contemporary political landscape and how that relates to other religious groups.
In this week’s show, Latter-day Saint historian Benjamin Park, author of “American Zion: A New History of Mormonism," explores those questions and more.
- Title
- ICE recruiting commercial targets Salt Lake City Police to become immigration agents
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement criticized Salt Lake City and urged local law enforcement officers to join the federal agency’s ranks in a commercial that aired during Monday night’s NFL matchup between the Denver Broncos and Cincinnati Bengals.
- Title
- Turning Point at Utah State University: Charlie Kirk's tour returns to Utah weeks after his death
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Only weeks after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on a university campus in Utah, the organization he co-founded continued his planned “American Comeback Tour” two hours north at Utah State University.
And as Gov. Spencer Cox joined a panel of Republican, Latter-day Saint politicians taking Kirk’s place at the Logan campus Tuesday night, the audience booed.
The national spotlight shone on Utah’s GOP governor in the days after Kirk’s death, and he drew bipartisan praise for his condemnation of toxic political division and violence. Two days earlier, Cox headlined CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”
But the audience, dotted with red “Make America Great Again” hats, drowned him out as he tried to recount his experience on the day Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University in Orem.
When he was able to speak, Cox said he was “proud” of the work Turning Point USA had done.
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