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Fate of 2 firefighters unknown after helicopter crashes while battling Utah’s massive Widemouth 2 Fire

By Samantha Moilanen | Leia Larsen | Aug. 8, 2026, 12:12 a.m.

Three years after throwing a chair at her ex, Taylor Frankie Paul’s legal battle is done

By Palak Jayswal | Aug. 7, 2026, 8:30 p.m.

Residents at burned-out Midvale building say they were misled by management

By Jose Davila IV | Aug. 7, 2026, 12:52 p.m.

Voices: My parents’ apartment caught fire. It revealed both the best and the worst of humanity.

Beyond playgrounds, jump rope is getting competitive and growing into a Utah community

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bill Johnson's and University of Utah graduate students on the exposed lakebe of the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

What do you want to know about the Great Salt Lake?

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(File photo by Ron Drake) Rain falls on Sorrel River Ranch Resort. The state has effectively shuttered the business due to water quality concerns.

Utah resort effectively shuttered by the state due to water quality concerns

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(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox, left, listens as U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz speaks about recovery efforts in the burn scar of the Cottonwood Fire near Beaver on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.

One Utah town is rebuilding. Another is packing bags as wildfire spreads.

By Brooke Larsen

News

SLC reveals plans for bringing new open space to this fast-growing neighborhood

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At least 49 women reported sexual assaults by a Utah OB-GYN. Prosecutors filed charges related to 8 — and now say they’re stopping.

Sports

This Utah football coach had a ‘persuasive’ offer to join Kyle Whittingham at Michigan. Here’s why he stayed.

Gordon Monson: Why Cade Uluave chose BYU after the Cougars once passed on him

Why Utah football’s offense could look a little different under Morgan Scalley

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(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Smoke from the Widemouth 2 Fire is seen from Fillmore on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.

Fate of 2 firefighters unknown after helicopter crashes while battling Utah’s massive Widemouth 2 Fire

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Taylor Frankie Paul appears in 3rd District Court for a hearing regarding protective orders in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Paul was charged for domestic violence assault in 2023, and the charge was reduced to a class A misdemeanor on August 7, 2026, after Paul completed the terms of a three-year plea-in-abeyance deal.

Three years after throwing a chair at her ex, Taylor Frankie Paul’s legal battle is done

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(File photo by Ron Drake) Rain falls on Sorrel River Ranch Resort. The state has effectively shuttered the business due to water quality concerns.

Utah resort effectively shuttered by the state due to water quality concerns

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox, left, listens as U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz speaks about recovery efforts in the burn scar of the Cottonwood Fire near Beaver on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.

One Utah town is rebuilding. Another is packing bags as wildfire spreads.

POLITICS

The new Utah Supreme Court candidate list is out. Here’s whom Cox can pick for two open justice seats.

Salt Lake neighborhood demands Utah leaders seek public input before building monument

Trump said recreation in Bears Ears was virtually impossible. New documents show the White House knew otherwise.

Opinion

Voices: My parents’ apartment caught fire. It revealed both the best and the worst of humanity.

Opinion: Want to fight back against Big Tech? Start here.

Tribune editorial: Growth of solar energy gives Utah alternatives

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Jana Riess: Why are so many young women leaving the LDS Church?

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Culture

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