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(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) People protest the Stratos data center project at the Capitol in Salt Lake City, Thursday, May 14, 2026.

Donald Trump’s data centers blitz is losing support

By Mara Hoplamazian, NOTUS | August 9, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People getting gas in South Salt Lake on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026.

Utahns are getting a break at the pump. But did anyone actually notice?

By Robert Gehrke | August 8, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

The new Utah Supreme Court candidate list is out. Here’s whom Cox can pick for two open justice seats.

Salt Lake neighborhood demands Utah leaders seek public input before building monument

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(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Indian Creek area of Bears Ears National Monument near Monticello on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024.

Trump said recreation in Bears Ears was virtually impossible. New documents show the White House knew otherwise.

The documents suggest the administration was “lying or spreading misinformation about these fantastic public lands,” a Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance official said.

By Maxine Joselow | The New York Times | August 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Substitute teacher Stephanie Foster at a news conference at Sacred Circle Healthcare in Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 30, 2026. From left are Ronni Bateman, Brenda Oluwalana, Foster and Suzanne Harrison.

Medicaid work requirement could leave 40,000 Utahns without healthcare

The state will begin enforcing the new rule, which it estimates will impact more than 40,000 Utahns, in 2027.

By Emily Anderson Stern | August 4, 2026, 6:27 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during a panel during the 2025 AI Summit at Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.

Can AI make Utah better? The state will spend $5M on research to find out.

Education and technology leaders will divvy up taxpayers’ money to fund local industry, researchers and students.

By Addy Baird | August 3, 2026, 11:18 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) At right, Tim Davis, Utah Department of Environmental Quality, briefs U.S. Sen. John Curtis and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin during a tour of the Great Salt Lake on Saturday, May 23, 2026.

Utah wants help saving Great Salt Lake in exchange for hosting federal nuclear hub

An agreement Gov. Spencer Cox and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed Monday indicates parties have two months to negotiate a deal.

By Emily Anderson Stern | July 31, 2026, 8:05 p.m.

(Google Maps) A Kaysville meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located at 198 W. Center Street, as shown in this July 2025 Google Maps image. A woman is accused of setting the building on fire the night before her wedding.

She was set to get married. The night before, she used a tampon to set fire to the Utah church, police say.

Police say the bride used a stolen lighter to start the fire in the women’s Relief Society room of a Kaysville meetinghouse.

By Addy Baird | July 29, 2026, 9:12 p.m.

(Nina Riggio/The New York Times) The Upper Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona on May 16, 2026. About 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of cropland depend on the Colorado for drinking water and irrigation.

A Colorado River deal is expected this week. How will it impact Utah?

The reported deal doesn’t involve Utah, but here is what we know about how it would impact the state.

By Addy Baird | July 29, 2026, 6:16 p.m.

(Bob Wick | Bureau of Land Management) The Book Cliffs in southeastern Utah.

How a Utah Republican’s quiet battle for hunting access undercut the Ute Indian Tribe’s Land Back hopes

Rep. Casey Snider worked behind the scenes for years to transfer large blocks of roadless state trust land to wildlife officials — cutting the Ute Tribe out in the process.

By Roque Planas | Public Domain | July 29, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson and Gov. Spencer Cox are joined by other state state leaders in north central Tooele County to announce plans to advance nuclear energy development in the county, on Friday, March 27, 2026.

Utah is a finalist to build a massive federal nuclear hub. What’s next?

Among its roles, a potential Tooele County campus would store nuclear waste from power plants the Trump administration expects to build over the next 25 years.

By Emily Anderson Stern | Leia Larsen | July 29, 2026, 10:51 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Joel Ferry, executive director of the Department of Natural Resources, shakes hands with Gov. Spencer Cox in Tooele county where they discussed opportunities in nuclear earlier this year. Ferry will leave his post in August.

With Colorado River ruling just days away, Joel Ferry set to leave Cox’s Cabinet

Department of Natural Resources Commissioner plans to become lobbyist — at critical time for Lake Powell and Great Salt Lake

By Robert Gehrke | July 29, 2026, 1:51 p.m.

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Utah is a finalist to build a massive federal nuclear hub. What’s next?

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