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Poison pond: One of SLC’s most popular parks is plagued by stinky, toxic water

By Jose Davila IV | Aug. 21, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

The Trump administration has a new Colorado River plan. Can it keep Lake Powell from crashing?

By Brooke Larsen | Aug. 21, 2026, 4:04 p.m.

Lake Powell houseboat group finds human remains in shrinking reservoir

By Leia Larsen | Aug. 21, 2026, 3:55 p.m.

Eli McCann: In a poor village, an LDS missionary encounters the ‘best people’ he has ever met

Gordon Monson: Want Cosmo to visit your seat at a BYU game? That’ll cost up to $3,203.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The room belonging to Austin Shavanaux shows extensive water damage as flooding from a water main break filled to the ceiling in the Poplar Grove neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026.

A rush of water. A dead pet. A car-size sinkhole. How a Salt Lake City pipe failure turned into a ‘nightmare.’

By Jordan Miller

(Abigail Landwehr | The Salt Lake Tribune) The former Fingerhut warehouse at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon is being considered as the site of a proposed data center. Volition, a Provo-based company, wants to build its center in the million-square-foot warehouse that currently operates as a distribution center.

As other local governments pass data center bans, this Utah city is considering changing code to bring one in

By Paighten Harkins

(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

How the LDS Church’s rebrand could end up sinking its legal case against ‘Mormon Stories’

By Tamarra Kemsley | David Noyce

News

16-year-old boy dies after falling more than 100 feet on popular Little Cottonwood Canyon trail

Twin teen brothers both struck in Kearns church shooting — one killed, the other hospitalized, family says

Utah’s largest school district just welcomed students back for the final time. Here’s how it will soon split into 3.

Sports

Utah sues former assistant coach who followed brother Kyle Whittingham to Michigan

From West Valley City to the Premier League: The making of Zavier Gozo

Utah still has a big question mark entering the season. Can the Utes find an answer?

THE LATEST

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A Lake Powell rental pontoon boat motors down the main channel of the reservoir on Saturday, April 25, 2026, as bathtub rings are indicative of how far the waters levels have fallen since being at full capacity in the early 1980s.

The Trump administration has a new Colorado River plan. Can it keep Lake Powell from crashing?

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A fast-moving skiff navigates the main channel of Lake Powell on April 26, 2026. Law enforcement officials removed a body from the man-made lake last Friday.

Lake Powell houseboat group finds human remains in shrinking reservoir

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Bagley Cartoon: Ticket to Ride

(Abigail Landwehr | The Salt Lake Tribune) The former Fingerhut warehouse at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon is being considered as the site of a proposed data center. Volition, a Provo-based company, wants to build its center in the million-square-foot warehouse that currently operates as a distribution center.

As other local governments pass data center bans, this Utah city is considering changing code to bring one in

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The room belonging to Austin Shavanaux shows extensive water damage as flooding from a water main break filled to the ceiling in the Poplar Grove neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026.

A rush of water. A dead pet. A car-size sinkhole. How a Salt Lake City pipe failure turned into a ‘nightmare.’

POLITICS

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

Utah’s new public records chief is deciding cases twice as fast as the committee — but not everyone’s happy

Opinion

Opinion: Trump’s lust for vengeance is turning into a farce

Voices: Behind closed doors, there are more threats ahead for our public lands

Letter: Utah’s leaders can’t warn us that the national debt is an existential threat while dismissing the $4.7 trillion in projected deficits they have added to it

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Religion

If Jesus showed up today, would he play the guitar?

How the LDS Church’s rebrand could end up sinking its legal case against ‘Mormon Stories’

We’re not trying to silence John Dehlin’s ‘Mormon Stories,’ LDS Church insists in new court filing

Culture

Embattled Salt Lake City brewery closing its flagship taproom, but says it will carry on

A Wyoming man sued the University of Utah for alleged ADA violations. Instead of quickly settling, he took it one step further.

These Utah music lovers want to fight the algorithm with their own radio station

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