The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City police, mayor give an update after No Kings protest shooting
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- Salt Lake City police, mayor give an update after No Kings protest shooting
- Runtime
- 9:52
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall conduct a briefing with media after a shooting occurred during a “No Kings” rally and march in Salt Lake City, Saturday, June 14, 2025.
Police say one person is in critical condition and three people are in custody during a shooting on State Street in the downtown area, which was peaceful up until the shooting. Police say one of the detained persons also had a gunshot wound.
Upwards of 10,000 people participated in the demonstration, part of protests across the country on Saturday.
Video by Trent Nelson of The Salt Lake Tribune.
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- Salt Lake City No Kings protest shooting: One person ‘critically injured,’ three in custody
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Salt Lake City police say they have taken three people into custody after a shooting near the No Kings march downtown Saturday evening left a man with a “critical” gunshot wound.
The injured man was seen collapsed on State Street with emergency responders providing care to him, directly in front of the Liberty SKY apartment complex.
The motive for the shooting and the events that led up to it remain under investigation, police said. Preliminarily, a news release said, the department believes the shooting “involved four people,” which included the critically injured victim.
Get the latest updates at sltrib.com.
Video by Trevor Christensen
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- Gunshots heard during "No Kings" march in Salt Lake City
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- 0:05
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- A video shared with The Salt Lake Tribune by witness Kris Pendleton captures the sounds of shots being fired and the crowd’s frightened reactions during a protest in Salt Lake City, Saturday, June 14, 2025.
Salt Lake City police say they have taken a person of interest into custody after a shooting near the No Kings march downtown Saturday evening.
One injured man was seen collapsed on State Street with emergency responders providing care. Another person was seen being loaded onto a stretcher by Salt Lake City Fire; he appeared to be the same man officers had handcuffed.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/06/14/crowd-gathers-salt-lake-city-march
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- Congressional staffer rescued by helicopter on Colorado River
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- 7:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Rescue teams from the National Park Service and a state helicopter were called in last month to airlift a staffer for Sen. John Curtis and three other passengers from a raft that got pinned to boulders by a violent rapid in Cataract Canyon.
Sgt. Jeff Aborn with the Department of Natural Resources set out May 11, 2025 to take Curtis staffer, Larry Ellertson, a former Utah County commissioner who now is an outreach advisor for the U.S. senator, along with Ellertson’s wife, Linda, and another Utah County couple down the stretch of the Colorado River, according to an incident report obtained through a public records request.
In a video requested by The Salt Lake Tribune last month and released Thursday, June 12, rescuers are seen hoisting the four passengers off the stranded raft as rushing water pours over the pontoons, nearly flooding the boat.
Video via Utah Department of Public Safety.
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- Pride and Juneteenth flags are "dumb" response to a "dumb law," Utah governor says
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- While Salt Lake City officials gathered Tuesday for a celebration to raise the city’s new Juneteenth flag over City Hall, Utah’s governor had a blunt response to the ongoing feud over the display of such banners:
“The whole thing’s just dumb,” Gov. Spencer Cox said.
The city adopted versions of the pride, trans and Juneteenth flags in May alongside its official banner as a way of bypassing a state ban on such displays on public schools and government buildings.
“I’m sure [city leaders] feel great that they got around this dumb law,” Cox said at a monthly news conference not long after Tuesday’s flag raising, “and they did it with dumb flags. The whole thing’s just dumb.”
Reporting: Tony Semerad and Robert Gehrke | The Salt Lake Tribune
Video: PBS Utah
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- Salt Lake City's Pride and Juneteenth flags are "dumb" response to a "dumb law," Utah governor says
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- While Salt Lake City officials gathered Tuesday for a celebration to raise the city’s new Juneteenth flag over City Hall, Utah’s governor had a blunt response to the ongoing feud over the display of such banners:
“The whole thing’s just dumb,” Gov. Spencer Cox said.
The city adopted versions of the pride, trans and Juneteenth flags in May alongside its official banner as a way of bypassing a state ban on such displays on public schools and government buildings.
“I’m sure [city leaders] feel great that they got around this dumb law,” Cox said at a monthly news conference not long after Tuesday’s flag raising, “and they did it with dumb flags. The whole thing’s just dumb.”
Reporting: Tony Semerad and Robert Gehrke | The Salt Lake Tribune
Video: PBS Utah
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- "If you want to do that, go to California" — Utah is great to protest, not riot, Gov. Cox says.
- Runtime
- 4:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Gov. Spencer Cox said Tuesday that he supports President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to quell protests in Southern California and warned that anyone in Utah who instigates violence will be held accountable.
“I want Utah to be the best place in the United States to protest,” Cox said during a news conference. “I also want Utah to be the worst possible place to riot. The minute you start to spray-paint the Capitol, the second you implement violence or property destruction, we will arrest you and hold you accountable and break up the disturbance that is happening.”
Anyone who has those intentions, he said, should “go to California.”
Reporting: Robert Gehrke | The Salt Lake Tribune
Video: PBS Utah
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- "If you want to do that, go to California." — Utah is great to protest, not riot, Gov. Cox says.
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Gov. Spencer Cox said Tuesday that he supports President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to quell protests in Southern California and warned that anyone in Utah who instigates violence will be held accountable.
“I want Utah to be the best place in the United States to protest,” Cox said during a news conference. “I also want Utah to be the worst possible place to riot. The minute you start to spray-paint the Capitol, the second you implement violence or property destruction, we will arrest you and hold you accountable and break up the disturbance that is happening.”
Anyone who has those intentions, he said, should “go to California.”
Reporting: Robert Gehrke | The Salt Lake Tribune
Video: PBS Utah
- Title
- 35th Annual Utah Pride Parade
- Runtime
- 0:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Marchers and spectators took to Salt Lake City’s streets Sunday to celebrate the state’s LGBTQ+ community at the 35th Utah Pride Parade.
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- Rep. Blake Moore defends Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ bill — and criticizes Elon Musk for objecting
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Rep. Blake Moore — Utah’s only member of Congressional leadership — is defending the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” arguing estimates about how much the massive spending bill backed by President Donald Trump would increase the country’s already ballooning debt are incorrect.
Moore’s defense of the bill came during a spectacular public meltdown of the relationship between Trump and former advisor Elon Musk over the legislation, and as Sen. Mike Lee pushes for additional spending cuts as the budget bill moves through the Senate.
Reporting by Addy Baird
Video by Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Comparing the Utah Mammoth and Utah Jazz’s futures with Andy Larsen
- Runtime
- 31:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In episode 18 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Andy Larsen who is the Utah Jazz beat writer for the Salt Lake Tribune. The two compare and contrast where the NHL and NBA stand in Utah, the trajectories of the Mammoth and Jazz over the next few years, how it has changed sports culture in Salt Lake City and more!
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- Let's try the viral 'Protein Diet Coke'
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A clip from the 'Mormon Land' and 'Mormons in Media' crossover episode. After talking all things 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,' you know we had to talk about dirty diet sodas. Only in Utah would a 'protein diet coke' be trending. So let's try it! Listen to the full episode wherever you listen to podcasts.
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- Historian John Turner's new biography reveals a playful, reckless, bold, and innovative Joseph Smith
- Runtime
- 45:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Historian John Turner captures a religious icon who was always on the move, who dangerously pursued polygamy, and bungled finances, yet whose teachings attracted many, appalled others and whose legacy just keeps growing.
Those captures are in his book, “Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet,” is available this month.
On this week’s show, Turner, professor of religious studies and history at George Mason University, discusses what he discovered about Joseph Smith — the husband, the father, the book publisher, the community organizer, the city builder, the religious innovator, the polygamist, the visionary, and, above all, the prophet to millions of followers.
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- The Word of Wisdom: How did the 'Mormon wives' do Season 2 sober!?
- Runtime
- 16:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Season 2 of 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' brought the drama. It also brought the questions. If Latter-day Saints can't drink alcohol, did they really do all of this sober? Why are some caffeinated drinks more accepted than others? In 15-20 years, will the Word of Wisdom be updated to talk about new-age things like ketamine and THC drinks? Latter-day Saint Rebbie Brassfield and "outsider" Nicole Weaver discuss all of the topics in this snippet from their monthly 'Mormon Land' and 'Mormons in Media' podcast crossover.
Listen to 'Mormon Land' and 'Mormons in Media' wherever you listen to podcasts.
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- Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Let’s talk maternity garments & the cross necklace debate
- Runtime
- 12:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In a podcast, Jen Affleck from 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' shared that up until her pregnancy, she wore garments. Rebbie Brassfield, host of 'Mormons in Media,' and Nicole discuss all the types of garments. Nicole asks an "outsider" question: If The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn't like the 'cross' imagery, then why do so many of the 'Mormon wives' wear cross necklaces in Season 2? Let's discuss.
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- Crossover episode: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 2 — Did they really do all of this sober?
- Runtime
- 1:04:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the second monthly bonus episode brought to you by a collaboration of “Mormon Land” and “Mormons in Media,” Latter-day Saint Rebbie Brassfield and non-Latter-day Saint Nicole Weaver recap season two of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” From discussing maternity garments and Gen-Z Latter-day Saints bringing back cross necklaces, the pair talks about all the things you may have been wondering. You might even learn the Young Women Theme.
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- Pride flag raised at Salt Lake City Hall
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- 0:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A pride flag flew high at Salt Lake City Hall on Friday evening — kicking off a week of Utah Pride activities and spurning efforts by the Utah Legislature to keep the rainbow banner from flying over government grounds.
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- Inside the "Mountainhead" house and the billionaire lifestyle
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Actors Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith talk about filming Jesse Armstrong’s new HBO movie "Mountainhead" in a Park City mansion.
The huge house was on the market last year for $65 million.
Reporting: Sean Means
Video: Kyle Hansen
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Inside the 'Mountainhead' house: How a Park City mansion fueled the new HBO movie
- Runtime
- 7:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The old saying in real estate — that the three most important things are “location, location, location” — also applies to making movies, as evident in the new film “Mountainhead” shot this spring near Park City, Utah.
The dark comedy, which debuts Saturday evening on HBO and starts streaming after that on Max (soon to be rebranded, again, as HBO Max), centers on four tech moguls — three multibillionaires and their half-billionaire host — during what’s supposed to be a luxurious guys’ weekend in the Utah mountains.
The fun stops when news comes in of global riots and turmoil, all blamed on misinformation generated by new social media tools just released on a platform owned by the richest of the four men (Cory Michael Smith).
Smith’s character, Venis (pronounced “Venice”), tries to minimize his responsibility, all while trying to talk his friend-rival, Jeff (Ramy Youssef), into selling his new A.I. system, which Jeff says i...
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- Miracle cat who survived Bryce Canyon fall adopted by helicopter pilot who rescued her
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Roughly a month after surviving a 380-foot fall in Bryce Canyon National Park that killed her owners, Mirage the cat has a new home.
According to Best Friends Animal Society, the elderly tabby has reunited with Chelsea Tugaw, the search-and-rescue helicopter pilot who helped rescue her.
Video and audio courtesy of Best Friends Animal Society
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- 'Mormon wives' Layla and Miranda talk about challenging cultural norms and being single moms #SLOMW
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Layla Taylor and Miranda McWhorter of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” talk about the response to their reality show.
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- Live from Africa: Why the faith is drawing so many converts
- Runtime
- 31:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It took more than three decades for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to grow its membership in Kenya from a handful in the late 1980s to more than 21,000 today.
These days, though, the number of conversions is rising more rapidly in this East African country. Kenya now even has its first Latter-day Saint temple.
Such expansion brings with it challenges brought by having young lay leaders, adapting to cultural practices like “bride prices,” a kind of dowry, and finding new meetinghouses across urban and rural landscapes.
In this special “Mormon Land” episode from Nairobi, Denis Mukasa, who serves as a stake (regional) president and directs the faith’s humanitarian work in the area, and his wife, Eunice Kavaya Mukasa, describe how they met (singing in a church choir), how the church has changed from when they both joined, and how local leaders are coping with growth — and poverty.
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- PETA's AI-powered robot calf, Charli XC Cow, entertains shoppers in Salt Lake City
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Yes, a walking, talking robot with a 3-D printed head to make it look like a cow was wandering around Salt Lake City this week.
It's the creation of @peta, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, meant to spread an anti-leather message.
The robot is designed to "describe how cows suffer mutilations and violent killings in the leather industry—and also break into a celebratory dance whenever someone proclaims they’re wearing shoes, clothing, or accessories made of vegan leather," PETA said in a statement.
Video by Rick Egan
The Salt Lake Tribune
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- Catholic conclave vs. LDS succession — Is one system better?
- Runtime
- 34:26
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- As the world held its collective breath for white smoke at the Vatican to signal the selection of a new Catholic pope, some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were smugly thinking how straightforward their faith‘s succession process is.
No guessing. No politicking. No top candidates. The senior apostle simply moves up a seat.
Some wonder, though, what’s wrong with mystery and surprise? Is an election in this context necessarily devoid of the Holy Spirit? Couldn’t God make any system righteous? Why does it matter?
On this week’s show, Latter-day Saint historian Matthew Bowman and Utah Catholic archivist Gary Topping discuss how the two global religions pick their top leaders — the precedents at play, the politics involved, the pluses, the minuses, and how both can see God’s hand in the result.
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- Ballerina Farm is an online sensation. Now see its first real-world store.
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel are taking their e-commerce phenomenon — @TheBallerinaFarm — to a brick-and-mortar location in Midway, Utah. The store, at 101 W. Main Street Suite 102, is set to open to the public on May 27.
The store is small in the charming way most Midway businesses are. It has a red and black tiled floor that welcomes visitors, along with a Ballerina Farm sign. Products stack up high on the shelves, in the freezers at the counter.
“We really want it to be a place where locals come,” Daniel Neeleman said Friday while giving a tour of the new store. “We don’t want it to be just a gift shop or a one and done place.”
The store, the couple said, is a way for consumers to experience Ballerina Farm in a more personal way.
Reporting: Palak Jayswal
Video: Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Mormon Moment 2.0: Mitt, missionaries & marketing
- Runtime
- 10:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the first monthly bonus episode brought to you by a collaboration of “Mormon Land” and “Mormons in Media,” Latter-day Saint Rebbie Brassfield and non-Latter-day Saint Nicole Weaver talk about the moment we seem to be in with Latter-day Saints in the media.
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- Secret Lives & Housewives: Is there such thing as a 'modern Mormon?'
- Runtime
- 8:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the first monthly bonus episode brought to you by a collaboration of “Mormon Land” and “Mormons in Media,” Latter-day Saint Rebbie Brassfield and non-Latter-day Saint Nicole Weaver talk about season one of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives." The pair talk about questions it brought up about the church and discuss if there is such thing as "modern" members.
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- What is Heather Gay teaching people about Latter-day Saints and heaven?
- Runtime
- 52:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the first monthly bonus episode brought to you by a collaboration of “Mormon Land” and “Mormons in Media,” Latter-day Saint Rebbie Brassfield and non-Latter-day Saint Nicole Weaver talk about season one of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and what they’re expecting, and hoping to see, from season two.
Rebbie is surprised to learn that Nicole knows about the Celestial Kingdom and even more surprised to hear she learned about it on TV.
Future episodes will explore other topics that come up in popular culture, such as on shows like “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” “Sister Wives” and “Under the Banner of Heaven.”
Listen and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever fine podcasts are found.
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- Assessing the 2025 NHL Draft pool with Chris Peters
- Runtime
- 26:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode 17 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Chris Peters who is the content manager for Flo Hockey and an NHL draft and prospects analyst. The two discuss the Utah Mammoth’s options with the fourth overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, which players have stood out, how realistic trading the pick is and more!
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- Latter-day Saints and perfectionism — how church teachings help and hurt
- Runtime
- 45:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are more prone to perfectionism.
That was the assumption, at least, that Justin Dyer, professor of religious education at church-owned Brigham Young University, was used to hearing.
Then the statistician, along with a few colleagues, started digging into the data. What they found was more complicated than the common wisdom that church membership, with its lofty eternal aim of helping followers to become like God, leads its members to hold themselves to unhealthy and unrealistic expectations.
On this week’s show, Dyer joins Latter-day Saint psychologist Debra Theobald McClendon to talk about how the faith’s teachings and culture impact the rank and file, their goals, their perceptions and their self-worth.
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- Inside the 24/7 fight at Utah’s busiest airports to keep migrating birds out of airplane engines
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Utah’s two busiest airports both sit next to wetlands — major pit stops along a migratory bird superhighway literally called the “Pacific Flyway” that make it uniquely tricky to keep airplane traffic from colliding with cruising waterfowl.
Among the most dangerous are pelicans. Clocking in at 4-5 feet tall with a 9-foot wingspan, they’re also among the heaviest birds in the world at about 30 pounds.
“They’re very large,” Provo Municipal Airport operations manager Matt Jensen said, “and they like to hover.”
In Salt Lake City, where the state’s busiest airport abuts Great Salt Lake, that means wildlife mitigation experts must remain especially vigilant. Over 12 million migratory birds stop there each year to feast on the lake’s abundant vegetation and insects, said Jason Jones, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ migratory bird and falconry programs coordinator.
Provo Airport and Salt Lake City Internation...
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- How staying home with kids now sometimes costs LDS women later
- Runtime
- 47:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 1981, then-apostle Ezra Taft Benson rose to the pulpit during a General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and told women: “You were elected by God to be wives and mothers in Zion. Exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom is predicated on faithfulness to that calling. Since the beginning, a woman’s first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.”
Even when another eventual church president, apostle Gordon B. Hinckley, encouraged women in 1989 to “get all the education you can,” he paired it with a wish for his female audience that none of them would ever have to work for pay.
In other words, get an education and, if you absolutely must, a job.
Such messaging from the faith has since changed, but, for decades, this was the counsel faith leaders gave Latter-day Saint women, many of whom came to see their degrees, if they had them, as a backup plan.
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- Armed standoffs, a hospital shutdown, now wanted by the law, but living free
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- For a wanted man, supposedly hiding from police, Ammon Bundy isn’t all that difficult to find these days.
On a snowy March morning in southern Utah, the 49-year-old fugitive emerged from behind his pickup truck sporting his trademark beard and cowboy hat. Despite being on the run from Idaho police after fleeing trial on a contempt of court charge and on the hook for part of a $52.5 million judgment, he is surprisingly relaxed and blithely unconcerned about the ever-looming threat of arrest.
“I’ve been doing [this] for a long, long time,” Bundy said matter-of-factly. “I’m not running at all. I don’t even have the location-share off on my phone. They can find me any time they want.”
A longtime figurehead of the militia, anti-federal government movement in the West, Bundy rose to prominence when he joined his father, rancher Cliven Bundy, and hundreds of supporters in an armed standoff with agents from the Bureau of Land Management in...
- Title
- Utah students rally against pride flag ban in Murray #pride #utah #politics
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Students rallied Wednesday along the sidewalk in front of Murray High School during a walkout in response to HB77, a bill that bans flags celebrating the LGBTQ community in Utah schools and government property.
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- A cat seems to have survived the fall that killed her owners in Bryce Canyon National Park
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Mirage, an elderly female tabby, was found with her owners in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah and appears to have survived the fall that killed them.
Video courtesy of Best Friends Animal Society
Read the full story at sltrib.com.
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- Why Utah farmers are struggling with mental health
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Farmers experience unique stressors, including fluctuating market prices, unpredictable weather and a stigma that stops many from talking about their mental health struggles or getting help.
In Utah, farmers and ranchers also struggle with the volatility that comes with working in the dry mountain region. A federal program offering farmers in the state free therapy was so successful that it ran out of money in four months. But lawmakers have chosen not to continue funding it.
Story published in partnership with @ProPublica.
Reporting: Jessica Schreifels
Video: Trevor Christensen
The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Announcing a new podcast partnership all about Latter-day Saints in pop culture
- Runtime
- 38:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The “Mormon Land” brand is expanding. We are excited to announce a new partnership with “Mormons in Media,” a podcast and Instagram account that has been tracking pop culture’s portrayal of Latter-day Saints and their church since 2018. This show will touch on it all — from “Under the Banner of Heaven” to “Heretic” to “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and any new ventures that emerge. On this week’s show, they tell us more about what listeners can expect from this new venture.
- Title
- Fire hits a snack factory in Salt Lake City, producing smoke visible for miles
- Runtime
- 0:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A fire at a Mexican snack factory sent smoke up into the Salt Lake City skies Tuesday morning.
Salt Lake City Fire Department reported on its X account Tuesday that crews responded to a three-alarm fire at 1518 S. Main. The building, the former site of the Golden Dragon restaurant, houses. the La Rana Mexican Snack Factory.
More: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/04/29/salt-lake-city-mexican-snack/
Video by Shannon Sollitt
The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Armed standoffs, a hospital shutdown, now wanted by the law, but living free
- Runtime
- 8:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- For a wanted man, supposedly hiding from police, Ammon Bundy isn’t all that difficult to find these days.
On a snowy March morning in southern Utah, the 49-year-old fugitive emerged from behind his pickup truck sporting his trademark beard and cowboy hat. Despite being on the run from Idaho police after fleeing trial on a contempt of court charge and on the hook for part of a $52.5 million judgment, he is surprisingly relaxed and blithely unconcerned about the ever-looming threat of arrest.
“I’ve been doing [this] for a long, long time,” Bundy said matter-of-factly. “I’m not running at all. I don’t even have the location-share off on my phone. They can find me any time they want.”
A longtime figurehead of the militia, anti-federal government movement in the West, Bundy rose to prominence when he joined his father, rancher Cliven Bundy, and hundreds of supporters in an armed standoff with agents from the Bureau of Land Management in...
- Title
- Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival behind the scenes: How Ashton Gardens gets planted
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- This year’s annual Tulip Festival in Lehi is the largest ever, with more than 900,000 flowers in Ashton Gardens.
This year’s festival is open until May 17.
Over 400,000 of this year’s flowers are imported tulips, while the 550,000 others are various spring blooms like daffodils, hyacinths, poppies and more. There are 129 different varieties of tulips, each one blooming at a different time, so visitors get a different perspective of the event no matter when they come during the six weeks it’s open.
Video: Bethany Baker
Reporting: Palak Jayswal
The Salt Lake Tribune
- Title
- Behind closed doors: How we know signatures on Utah's anti-labor union law repeal petition are real
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Utah's county clerks are using “a very, very manual process” to ensure the signatures submitted by pro-labor union groups are valid.
The petition packets were turned in last week by Protect Utah Workers, a coalition of labor groups trying to repeal an anti-union law.
County clerk’s offices across the state now have less than two weeks to chip away at validating more than 320,000 signatures to determine if the labor referendum will become the first since 2007 to appear on the ballot.
And even in a high-tech world, it is a decidedly low-tech process: Hundreds of staff across the state hunched over computer terminals, going page by page and signature by signature through piles of petition packets.
Reporting: Robert Gehrke
Video: Trevor Christensen
Photos: Trent Nelson
Note: Images of documents with voter data have been blurred by The Tribune.
- Title
- We still have work to do to root out racism, says Mauli Bonner
- Runtime
- 31:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- While the racist priesthood/temple ban in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is indeed in the past, racism itself remains very much in the present — for the faith and for society as a whole.
In fact, the Utah-based church recently published a new webpage addressing the topic, reminding members that President Russell Nelson directed them to “lead out in abandoning attitudes and actions of prejudice” and his top counselor, Dallin Oaks, urged Latter-day Saints to “help root out” the sin of racism.
The article went so far as to encourage members to speak up when racism arises in their congregations. So how can Latter-day Saints play their part? And do they need to start by looking honestly in the mirror and asking: Do I hold racist views?
Mauli Bonner — a well-known Black Latter-day Saint, and an award-winning filmmaker and songwriter — penned an opinion piece recently for The Salt Lake Tribune to help members examine themse...
- Title
- Recapping Utah Hockey Club exit-day interviews
- Runtime
- 36:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode 16 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser recaps the main storylines from Utah Hockey Club’s player exit interviews. Topic include unrestricted free agents, the summer market, contract extensions and more.
- Title
- Talking all about LDS membership growth with Matt Martinich
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- As a proselytizing faith with a committed corps of volunteer missionaries, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is forever driven to boost its ranks and broaden its reach. It did so last year at a level not seen in decades.
Convert baptisms topped 308,000 in 2024, a 27-year high, and pushed total membership above 17.5 million. The army of missionaries shot past 74,000, a number not seen since 10 years ago after leaders lowered the age minimum for full-time service. And the tally of missions around the globe swelled to 450, more than at any point in the faith’s 195-year history.
Amid all these encouraging statistics for the church, discouraging trends persisted. Babies added to the rolls continued to fall and the loss of members continued to rise.
This week’s show aims to make sense of all these figures, including nations where the church is growing the fastest or shrinking the quickest, with the help of independent researcher Matt M...
- Title
- Talking all about LDS membership growth with Matt Martinich
- Runtime
- 31:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- As a proselytizing faith with a committed corps of volunteer missionaries, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is forever driven to boost its ranks and broaden its reach. It did so last year at a level not seen in decades.
Convert baptisms topped 308,000 in 2024, a 27-year high, and pushed total membership above 17.5 million. The army of missionaries shot past 74,000, a number not seen since 10 years ago after leaders lowered the age minimum for full-time service. And the tally of missions around the globe swelled to 450, more than at any point in the faith’s 195-year history.
Amid all these encouraging statistics for the church, discouraging trends persisted. Babies added to the rolls continued to fall and the loss of members continued to rise.
This week’s show aims to make sense of all these figures, including nations where the church is growing the fastest or shrinking the quickest, with the help of independent researcher Matt M...
- Title
- What the European Union ambassador thinks of Utah's senator
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the months since President Donald Trump was elected, tension has emerged between the U.S. and many of its longstanding allies in the European Union. And the senior member of Utah’s federal delegation, Sen. Mike Lee, has made dozens of posts magnifying the rift.
“Europeans despise Americans,” Lee wrote on the social platform X last month, urging the country to leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
But in a visit to Utah on Friday, EU Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė wanted to correct the record: Europe and the U.S. have deep connections — from trade partnerships to academic exchanges — that the EU wants to preserve.
Read more here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/04/11/eu-ambassador-jovita-neliupien/
Video by Francisco Kjolseth of The Salt Lake Tribune.
- Title
- Talking Utah Hockey Club fan experience with ‘Broccoli Brandon’
- Runtime
- 38:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode 15 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Brandon Merrill who started the broccoli hat tradition at Delta Center for goaltender Karel Vejmelka. The two discuss the evolution of the UHC fan culture this season, Salt Lake as a hockey city and more.
- Title
- ‘Fighting the Oligarchy’: Bernie Sanders and AOC draw a massive crowd in deeply conservative Utah
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A Utah audience of thousands, some dressed in years-old Bernie Sanders for President merchandise, crammed into the Huntsman Center at the University of Utah to listen to some of the most progressive members of Congress — who in many ways are the ideological opposites of their own representatives.
“We are living in the most dangerous moment in the modern history of this country,” Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said, explaining why he is criss-crossing the country holding rallies in the early months of a non-election year.
The “Fighting the Oligarchy” tour has taken place over the weeks since President Donald Trump took office. At Trump’s inauguration, Sanders has pointed out, the three richest people in the world — Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — sat behind the president.
Sanders took the stage to piercing cheers and an ovation, as did the younger Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York — a possible presiden...
- Title
- Bonus: Mikhail Sergachev talks about his Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy nomination
- Runtime
- 16:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On episode 14 of Inside the Club, Belle Fraser is joined by Utah Hockey Club defenseman Mikhail Sergachev. The two discuss Sergachev’s nomination for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy — which is awarded to the NHL player who “best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to the game.” They also reflect on his first season in Salt Lake City.
- Title
- Why LDS women are 'jazzed' about the new sleeveless garments
- Runtime
- 33:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this "Mormon Land" podcast, Latter-day Saint influencers discuss the faith's redesigned garments, including the sleeveless version, and how women are wearing and receiving them.
