The Salt Lake Tribune

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Miracle drug, or gas station opioid? Utah lawmakers take on kratom

By Addy Baird | Robert Gehrke | Feb. 11, 2026, 1:00 p.m.

Utah ski resorts are pulling the plug on snowmaking. This is why the season will go on.

By Julie Jag | Feb. 11, 2026, 7:34 p.m.

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‘We were bamboozled’ — students at Black college question why it honored LDS founder Joseph Smith

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | Feb. 11, 2026, 6:27 p.m.

Voices: Technology in the classroom doesn’t improve my kids’ education. It’s time to bring back proven learning methods.

Millions of records about Utah children and state hospital patients have not been kept private, auditor finds

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. Lawmakers are weighing a bill that would give the state additional control over Salt Lake City streets.

Lawmaker denies ‘state takeover’ of SLC roads as traffic-calming bill hits opposition on Capitol Hill

By Tony Semerad

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Mammoth goaltender Karel Vejmelka (70).

Gordon Monson: This masked man might now be the most important pro athlete in Utah

By Gordon Monson

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ballerina Farm’s Dairy Farm in Kamas is a 328-acre farm with around 190 cows. The farm produces products like yogurt, soft serve, protein ice cream and different types of cheeses. Ballerina Farm issued a statement on Tuesday evening, clarifying that it stopped selling raw milk in August 2025.

Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman explains the dairy’s decision to stop selling raw milk

By Palak Jayswal

News

Wasatch County GOP chair charged with felony child abuse

Utah ski resorts are pulling the plug on snowmaking. This is why the season will go on.

Lawmaker denies ‘state takeover’ of SLC roads as traffic-calming bill hits opposition on Capitol Hill

Sports

The University of Utah has a new proposal for the Huntsman Center. Here’s what you need to know.

The Triple Team: Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr. look like a formidable combo in first Jazz games together

Why Utah is still the place for the Utes’ 5-star point guard, LA Sneed

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(Grace Doerfler | KPCW) Heber City's public safety building houses the police department.

Wasatch County GOP chair charged with felony child abuse

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ballerina Farm’s Dairy Farm in Kamas is a 328-acre farm with around 190 cows. The farm produces products like yogurt, soft serve, protein ice cream and different types of cheeses. Ballerina Farm issued a statement on Tuesday evening, clarifying that it stopped selling raw milk in August 2025.

Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman explains the dairy’s decision to stop selling raw milk

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A portrait of Joseph Smith Jr. is unveiled at the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel in Atlanta on Feb. 1, 2026.

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‘We were bamboozled’ — students at Black college question why it honored LDS founder Joseph Smith

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah State Hospital campus is pictured on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, next to the Wasatch mountains in Provo. An audit found the health records of over 10,000 patients who have received care there have not been adequately kept private.

Millions of records about Utah children and state hospital patients have not been kept private, auditor finds

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POLITICS

‘Demonizing legislators for legislating’: How many bills are too many for Utah lawmakers?

Utah spent $1 billion to build a new prison. Now, lawmakers want $130 million more.

Expansion of single-sex housing limitation is ‘legal discrimination,’ Utahns tell committee

Opinion

Voices: Why Utah students like me are walking out of schools

Letter: Rep. Burgess Owens is willing to make excuses for Trump no matter what

Letter: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance brought a brief, joyful respite from vilification

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Religion

‘Mormon Land’: Church is less burdensome now, says historian Richard Bushman, but maybe less interesting

In major speech, LDS President Dallin Oaks says he wants to help all members ‘overcome present or future doubts’

Utah college students could turn down assignments based on ‘religious and conscience beliefs’ under this bill

Culture

Planning a Valentine’s Day date? These Utah eateries have romance on the menu.

Food trucks put the world on a plate for University of Utah students

Emmy-winning director returns to set of movie that ‘put Utah on the map’

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