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

By Emily Anderson Stern | Aug. 24, 2026, 11:41 p.m.

The Trump administration upended how we fight wildfires. Then came the West’s worst fire season in years.

By Brooke Larsen, Amy Alonzo, Rachel Becker, Robert Chaney, Mike Koshmrl and Olivia Prentzel

Enes Kanter was tossed from a WNBA game. Mike Lee says the former Jazz player wasn’t ‘‘harassing’ anyone.’

By Addy Baird | Aug. 24, 2026, 8:03 p.m.

Colin Hilton, who kept 2002 Utah Olympic venues active before a 2034 reboot, dies at 58

The University of Utah is closing its Sandy campus, citing state-mandated budget changes

(Mike Winder via Google) A Flock camera in Millcreek Common was removed by Millcreek public works crews last month.

A Utah suburb cut down a mysterious Flock camera on city property. Here’s where they think it came from.

By Jordan Miller

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Burnt acreage shows the aftermath of the Canyon Road Fire in Logan that ignited the night before, scorching approximately 17 acres. Investigators say the fire originated in a Utah State University compost pile.

How investigators say USU is linked to the fire that ripped through Logan’s east side

By Brock Marchant

(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Utahns’ phones are buzzing with more alerts than ever. Here’s what you need to know.

News

Nevada sues federal government over cuts to ‘already meager’ Colorado River water allocation

Large rockfall at Zion National Park closes access to popular park trail

Firefighters grapple with Nevada blaze that drove thousands from homes

Sports

Gordon Monson: BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier stands on the edge of a huge season

Former Utah Jazz player Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from WNBA game after confrontation

‘He’s someone you’d go to war with’: The rugby days that reveal the Morgan Scalley Utah knows today

THE LATEST

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A voter drops off two ballots at a ballot drop box at the Davis Conference Center in Layton on Monday, June 22, 2026.

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

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A raft on the Colorado River as seen from Navajo Bridge in Ariz. on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.

Nevada sues federal government over cuts to ‘already meager’ Colorado River water allocation

(Fox 13) A large rockfall inside Zion National Park has cut off access Monday to one of the most popular areas in the park.

Large rockfall at Zion National Park closes access to popular park trail

(Nam Y. Huh | AP) Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom greets a friend before a WNBA basketball game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, in Chicago.

Enes Kanter was tossed from a WNBA game. Mike Lee says the former Jazz player wasn’t ‘‘harassing’ anyone.’

(Tim Walton via AP) An image taken from video shows a charred neighborhood following wildfires Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, in Reno, Nevada.

Firefighters grapple with Nevada blaze that drove thousands from homes

POLITICS

What big races are on Utahns’ ballots in the 2026 midterm elections?

Box Elder data center process was ‘not good,’ Gov. Cox says — and calls for MIDA reforms

‘It wasn’t a little war’: John Curtis warns Iran war mistakes resemble Vietnam

Opinion

Letter: The wealth gap in America continues to mushroom to the detriment of most

Opinion: When the choice to be childless is not your own

Opinion: I spent my summer in the cemetery. There, I found strange solace.

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Religion

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

LDS students at Dallin Oaks’ alma mater tackle LGBTQ+ issues, gender and more in new journal

Culture

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

After a decade in SLC’s Central 9th, this restaurant says it’s being forced to leave. Here’s what’s next.

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