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A bill that would ban pride flags in all of Utah's public schools and government buildings now awaits the governor's approval or veto.
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Utah has become the first U.S. state to outlaw the addition of fluoride to public drinking water.
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Lagoon's zoo is shutting down after nearly 60 years.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a crowd of around 15,000 people in deep-red Utah during their ‘Fighting the Oligarchy’ tour in Salt Lake City on Sunday.
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Opinion: Trump clearly sided with the aggressor — the dictator — against the freedom fighter
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An independent analysis concluded that even if the LDS Church stopped collecting tithing, its $200B+ in invested reserves means it could “fund church programs forever.”
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As billionaire Elon Musk leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that’s cutting federal funding to nonprofit organizations, international development and other agencies, he’s seemed to heed a Utah software engineer’s recommendations.
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From Salt Lake City to Bluff — and at least seven other spots across the state — thousands of Utahns gathered to take part in a national “Hands Off” protest against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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Opinion: If Pete Hegseth had any honor, he would resign
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Letter: Utah’s prohibition of fluoridated water is one of the dumbest actions ever
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LDS Church First Presidency instructs bishops and other lay leaders not to ask members about their immigration status in temple recommend interviews.
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Letter: By embracing Trump’s quest for absolute power, Utah’s representatives have betrayed their oath to serve the people
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At least 17 international students and recent graduates at the University of Utah have had their visas revoked — receiving letters from President Donald Trump’s administration instructing them to immediately “self-deport.”
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The Trump administration has cut funding for a University of Utah research institute because work there focused on health disparities, including skin cancer in rural communities and brain injuries in combat veterans.
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Letter: Sen. Curtis: Your grandchildren will be grown one day, and they will fully understand how you acted under Trump
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Utah GOP Reps. Maloy and Kennedy were booed and told to “Do your job” at a town hall on Thursday evening.
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Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill that will end Utah's popular universal vote-by-mail election system in 2029 on Thursday.
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Letter: Memo to Utah leaders: We should never be in the business of shipping people off to gulags
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Within the past few months, several Utah immigration and criminal defense attorneys said they’ve had clients arrive to meet with their probation officers only to find U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers waiting to detain them.
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Days after Utah became the first state in the country to ban LGBTQ+ pride flags at government buildings, Utah Hockey Club celebrated the community at Delta Center.
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A day after Gov. Spencer Cox allowed the pride ban bill to go into law, hundreds gathered at the Utah State Capitol to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility.
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“You really care about JFK’s legacy? You’re dismantling it,” JFK's only grandson told Sen. Mike Lee.
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Check out Pat Bagley’s latest cartoon: The War on Woke
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“A pride flag doesn’t endorse a candidate, a party or a policy,” writes Midvale Mayor Dustin Gettel in an op-ed. “It simply affirms that LGBTQ+ Utahns are an integral part of our communities.”
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The Utah State Board of Education rejected a request to formally adopt a stance against diversity, equity and inclusion. The decision came after hundreds of phone calls and emails this week expressed concern over the proposed resolution.
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Letter: If Cox truly opposed the anti-union bill, he would’ve vetoed it
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Letter: Sen. Curtis acts like he cares but then goes against everything people are asking of him
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Over the first three months of 2025, Mike Lee's posts on X have reached new heights, pumping up Trump policies and building on his bromance with Elon Musk.
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“The parks are our gems," one protester said. “Our public lands drive the economy here in Moab, and it is insane that they are literally killing the goose that’s laying our golden eggs, so we’re here to be a voice of support.”
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A Pulitzer Prize finalist in the cartoonist category, Pat Bagley has worked for The Salt Lake Tribune for more than 45 years. He is one of roughly a dozen cartoonists still working at a major metropolitan newspaper in the U.S.
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“It’s terribly sad and frustrating that people don’t trust experts in their fields anymore.”
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Letter: Trump’s blatantly defying the rule of law. When will Utah’s lawmakers call him out for it?
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Letter: Utah’s targeting of the vote-by-mail system is the result of Trump’s lies
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Letter: Trump is, beyond any doubt, the very antithesis of Captain Moroni
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This one Utah university president has signed onto the national letter speaking out against President Donald Trump’s attempts to control over higher education.
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A judge ruled Friday that Utah’s $100 million “Utah Fits All” scholarship program is unconstitutional.
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Salt Lake City library employees have voted to form a union, the first in the Beehive State for library workers.
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Letter: An avalanche of destructive bills has proved the Legislature cares little about its constituents
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“When the president can arbitrarily target companies or institutions with punitive actions and our elected officials remain silent, it creates an environment of unpredictability that damages all businesses,” writes Utah business owner Alex Thompson.
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“We have seen DOGE’s website, with its proud display of projected taxpayer savings. But where is the corresponding tally of lost jobs, shuttered programs and broken community ties?”
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Letter: Autism is something we should seek to embrace, not “cure”
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Opinion: Putin is ready to carve up the world. Trump just handed him the knife.
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In the final minutes of their recently completed session, Utah lawmakers voted to disband the state’s Women in the Economy Commission, created to improve gender equality by making policy recommendations for how to better help women participate in the wo.
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Tom Wharton, who covered sports and the outdoors over a 45-year career at The Salt Lake Tribune, died at age 74. He wrote popular guidebooks based on his deep knowledge of Utah.
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Letter: Wouldn’t it be more democratic to let Utahns vote on fluoride, again — as they did in 2003?
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Opinion: Trump has gone from unconstitutional to anti-constitutional
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A judge has ruled that a coalition of environmental groups can proceed with their lawsuit against the state of Utah for allegedly not doing enough to save the Great Salt Lake.
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Salt Lake City is looking to adopt official versions of the pride and other flags just hours before a new Utah law banning unofficial flags from schools and government buildings takes effect.
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Utah Lt. Gov. Henderson tells Trump to “bring back our history" after women are removed from a list of graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Tribune guest columnist Eli McCann recalls the day he formally submitted his resignation from the LDS Church.
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Mia Love, the child of Haitian immigrants who went on to become a City Council member, mayor and the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday after a three-year-long battle with brain cancer. Read more:
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Utah lawmakers' attempt to ban pride flags in schools and government buildings will be a national first if Gov. Cox signs the bill.
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Letter: Everyone who values a fair, principled and independent justice system should be alarmed by Trump’s actions
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Opinion: What’s happening in America is not normal. It’s time for a civic uprising.
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America’s national parks saw more than 331 million visits last year, a record. But the Trump administration does not want to call attention to those numbers amid mass firings of rangers and other employees.
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“Kudos to Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson for speaking up when the anti-diversity police of the Trump administration removed from the Arlington National Cemetery website a list of notable women who are buried there,” writes the editorial board.
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Rep. Blake Moore says he’s frustrated with how federal workers — especially those in his district — have been vilified and treated in recent cuts to the federal government.
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Opinion: Trump and Musk are suffering from Soros derangement syndrome
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Opinion: I don’t believe a single word Trump and Putin say about Ukraine
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A judge in Box Elder County has been arrested and faces multiple child sex charges after evidence allegedly shows that he distributed and received child sex abuse material online.
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A Pulitzer Prize finalist in the cartoonist category, Pat Bagley has worked for The Salt Lake Tribune for more than 45 years. He is one of roughly a dozen cartoonists still working at a major metropolitan newspaper in the U.S.
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Three former superintendents of Utah’s "Mighty 5" national parks say the Trump administration’s firings of park staff will degrade not only visitors’ experiences, but also the lands and history the parks preserve.
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Opinion: America became great because of the things Trump hates
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“No part of government should be able to act without the oversight of the others,” writes the editorial board. “And of the people.”
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Gov. Cox said he never liked a bill banning collective bargaining and tried to work out a compromise. He said he's not surprised labor groups were able to gather 320,000 signatures for a repeal effort and called the tally "very impressive."
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Letter: With the recent trifecta of blockbuster events, Utah’s notoriety seems secure
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Letter: What happened to stopping the war in Ukraine and lowering prices on day one?
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The city of Millcreek is yet again pushing back against federal immigration authorities, Mayor Jeff Silvestrini asserted Friday afternoon, after he said a local family from Venezuela was told by federal authorities last week to leave the country.
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Opinion: Today Harvard is the target. Tomorrow it could be your church.
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“The constitutional balance of power that has stood us in such good stead for the past 236 years will collapse utterly unless each branch of government stands up for that balance and for its own duties and powers,” writes the editorial board.
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“The prevailing trend is clear: Utah’s politicians are working harder to shield themselves from public oversight than they are to serve the public,” write Utah Sierra Club’s Legislative Committee co-chairs Frances Benfell and Chris Shapard in an op-ed.
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The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, reports it has terminated office space leases used by federal agencies in Utah.
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Letter: Make no mistake: Our pride is not something that can be legislated away
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As the Trump administration threatens the status of refugees, LDS apostle Dieter Uchtdorf tells his story of being driven from country to country when he was a boy.
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Stadler, a Swiss train manufacturer, plans to grow its facility on the west side of Salt Lake City and add 300 more jobs.
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