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BYU-Notre Dame tickets are expensive. But there’s some good news for fans.

By Shreyas Laddha | Oct. 16, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Waiting in the wings: The Oklahoma ranch that helped shape Utah QB Byrd Ficklin

By Jason Batacao | Oct. 16, 2026, 3:54 p.m.

Most Utahns are willing to pay higher taxes or water bills to help refill the Great Salt Lake. Here’s how much.

By Leia Larsen | Oct. 16, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

For the first time ever, Utah’s historic home tour visits an eclectic west-side neighborhood

Tribune editorial: Look up The Tribune Voter Guide, and cast an intelligent ballot

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Students walk past a former equity center sign at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 27, 2024.

‘Impermissible’: Utah public universities can’t be sanctuary campuses, higher ed boss says

By Courtney Tanner

(Kathryn Post | RNS) Margaret Bronson, right, speaks during a Deconstruction Doulas retreat in Colorado Springs.

‘Deconstruction Doulas’ — Helping tradwives and other women escape fundamentalism

By Kathryn Post | Religion News Service

(Vatican Media via AP) This picture, released by Vatican Media on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, shows Pope Leo XIV celebrating Mass at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where he is recovering after having cancer removed from his right lung.

Pope Leo, pictured for first time since his surgery, calls Russia’s Putin, seeks ceasefire in Ukraine

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Siobhán O’Grady | The New York Times

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Trains and buses are free this weekend. They can get you and your family to plenty of fall festivities.

For the first time ever, Utah’s historic home tour visits an eclectic west-side neighborhood

Most Utahns are willing to pay higher taxes or water bills to help refill the Great Salt Lake. Here’s how much.

Sports

Why a 24-team College Football Playoff should help BYU and Utah football

BYU-Notre Dame tickets are expensive. But there’s some good news for fans.

CFP closing in on expansion to 24 teams in 2027 in deal worth extra $300M per year

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(Vatican Media via AP) This picture, released by Vatican Media on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, shows Pope Leo XIV celebrating Mass at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where he is recovering after having cancer removed from his right lung.

Pope Leo, pictured for first time since his surgery, calls Russia’s Putin, seeks ceasefire in Ukraine

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Dallin H. Oaks, right, greets Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League, during the opening ceremony of the 2026 G20 Interfaith Forum in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026.

Don’t ignore faith when confronting global problems, says LDS President Dallin Oaks

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(Joel Rayburn Jr. | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Byrd Ficklin's mother, Brandy Ridley, looks on at her feeding cows at her ranch in Oktaha, Oklahoma.

Waiting in the wings: The Oklahoma ranch that helped shape Utah QB Byrd Ficklin

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ballots in the counting center at Utah County's Administration Building in Provo on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.

Tribune editorial: Look up The Tribune Voter Guide, and cast an intelligent ballot

POLITICS

Las elecciones generales están a la vuelta de la esquina. Aquí está todo lo que tiene que saber.

Rep. Blake Moore says he has found ‘a productive lane’ in Congress. Challenger Peter Crosby says he lacks courage

Utah State Board of Education election 2026: What you need to know about all 8 state school board races

Opinion

Opinion: Western civilization lessons for Team Trump

Tribune editorial: Pamela Atkinson set an example for helping the poor that must not die with her

Voices: Utah law protects land and water for future generations. We can’t let data centers squander them.

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Religion

Don’t ignore faith when confronting global problems, says LDS President Dallin Oaks

‘Deconstruction Doulas’ — Helping tradwives and other women escape fundamentalism

LDS President Dallin Oaks, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox to welcome world leaders at interfaith forum in SLC

Culture

A Utah play about an excommunicated gay Latter-day Saint returns with questions about faith, family and acceptance

‘Don’t get your hopes up’: Utah author Brandon Sanderson is buying Evermore, but not reopening it. Here’s why.

Salt & Straw’s first Utah location will be in Riverton, not SLC, and opens this weekend

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