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Utah House speaker criticizes Nevada’s Colorado River lawsuit for making a ‘difficult situation more difficult’

By Brooke Larsen | Aug. 25, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Utah lowers flags to half-staff to honor the legendary Dolly Parton

By Palak Jayswal | Aug. 26, 2026, 1:58 a.m.

It was just named one of Utah’s best campgrounds, and it’s feeling the effects of Trump’s Grand Staircase-Escalante cuts

By Julie Jag | Aug. 25, 2026, 7:32 p.m.

This Utah school district didn’t talk about ‘Fight Club.’ Now, it could be in trouble with the state.

‘He is wrong’: Ranchers are ‘disappointed’ in Donald Trump’s beef import plan

(Nam Y. Huh | AP) Fans stand up as they hold signs while Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud argues with former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Indiana Fever, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, in Chicago.

Gordon Monson: Enes Kanter Freedom and Mike Lee make a regrettable tag team in made-up WNBA outrage

By Gordon Monson

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People float in The Crater at the Homestead in Midway where extensive changes are taking place all around it. Utah Luxury Group, a premier boutique real estate firm specializing in high-end mountain properties, has been completing their Autograph Collection Residences, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2026.

Once a rustic destination popular with Utah families, this resort is adding million-dollar homes

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) An automatic license plate reader is pictured on Foothill Drive in Salt Lake City near Parleys Canyon on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.

As the world rages over Flock, SLC creates new rules for its own license plate readers. Here’s what they say.

By Tony Semerad

News

Dolly Parton, superstar whose songs spoke to millions, dies at 80

It was just named one of Utah’s best campgrounds, and it’s feeling the effects of Trump’s Grand Staircase-Escalante cuts

As the world rages over Flock, SLC creates new rules for its own license plate readers. Here’s what they say.

Sports

Why Utah football is prioritizing bringing back its former players

Gordon Monson: Enes Kanter Freedom and Mike Lee make a regrettable tag team in made-up WNBA outrage

‘Gozo is the advertisement’: The $15 million question facing Real Salt Lake after Zavier Gozo’s transfer

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(Harms | AP) Singer and actress Dolly Parton shown at a party following the premiere of her movie "Nine to Five" in Los Angeles, Dec. 12, 1980. Parton died on Aug. 25 at the age of 80.

Utah lowers flags to half-staff to honor the legendary Dolly Parton

FILE Ñ Dolly Parton, savoring a chocolate mousse cake. Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur whose rags-to-riches story, outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent placed her in a class by herself, died in Nashville on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. She was 80. (Edward Keating/The New York Times)

Dolly Parton, superstar whose songs spoke to millions, dies at 80

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(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cattle walk by during a media tour to see the use of cattle to combat invasive phragmites at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Syracuse on July 16, 2024.

‘He is wrong’: Ranchers are ‘disappointed’ in Donald Trump’s beef import plan

(Arika Bauer, Hipcamp) A camper takes in the view at Ranchito Feliz in Cannonville. The campground, which Hipcamp named among the best in Utah in 2026, sat on the border of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument until June.

It was just named one of Utah’s best campgrounds, and it’s feeling the effects of Trump’s Grand Staircase-Escalante cuts

POLITICS

‘He is wrong’: Ranchers are ‘disappointed’ in Donald Trump’s beef import plan

Buzz of the Week: Do you support the national monument size cuts?

Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions can stand, Supreme Court rules. Here’s what that means for Utah.

Opinion

Voices: Venezuela’s earthquake tragedy is a warning for Utah

Letter: History will remember how Trump-enablers stained our country. As a former Republican, I say ‘Never again!’

Letter: Why should Democrats get blamed for raising taxes?

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Religion

More than 250,000 people toured this San Diego landmark. Now only Latter-day Saints can enter.

Jana Riess: Do former Latter-day Saints join another religion?

Becoming Catholic: I went from an ‘emphasis on obedience’ to a ‘state of grace,’ says former Latter-day Saint

Culture

A Utah theater’s stage and orchestra pit flooded — but the show will go on

Can you hear the theaters ka-ching? A battered industry turns to ‘Les Miz.’

‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ alumna Jen Shah will soon go free

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