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(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rachel Borup stands in Donner Trail Park in the St. Mary's neighborhood, an area where homeowners are losing their homeowners insurance due to fire risk, in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 29, 2024.

Salt Lake City suburbs may not know they’re a fire risk until they lose their homeowners insurance

By Sofia Jeremias | July 3, 2024, 12:46 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A gate blocks the road for the winter in Mill Creek Canyon, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Farther up the road is where four skiers died in an avalanche Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.

When will upper Mill Creek Canyon open to cars for the summer?

By Sofia Jeremias | July 2, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A new 31-story apartment building at 200 East 300 South in Salt Lake City nears completion on Monday, March 11, 2024.

5 things every renter in Salt Lake City should know before they sign a lease

By Sofia Jeremias | June 27, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rollin Anderson pulls his grandson Flynn, 3, in a wagon as his grandaughter Maggie, 18months, runs through the tulips during the Baby Animal Festival and Tulip Field Festival at Cross E Ranch, April 23, 2021. The festival runs until May 8.

Utah lost 20% of its farmland. Will the state try to protect what’s left?

By Sofia Jeremias | June 20, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

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Runner takes advantage of sprinklers to cool down on his training run in Sugarhouse Park Monday July 21.

Utah is implementing these water saving programs statewide

By Sofia Jeremias | June 19, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Construction in Sugar House, Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 23, 2024.

Are parking lots holding back affordable housing?

By Sofia Jeremias | June 21, 2024, 3:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man experiencing homelessness pulls his belongings over the railroad tracks near 800 West and South Temple, on Thursday, June 8, 2023.

Despite homelessness spiking, Utah officials say they are moving in the right direction

By Sofia Jeremias | Megan Banta | June 13, 2024, 4:34 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A helicopter flyover during Utah National Guard Governor's Day at Camp Williams on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.

Could the U.S. military help save the Great Salt Lake?

By Sofia Jeremias | June 10, 2024, 2:00 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune; Monson campaign) Michael J. Petersen, left, and Mike Monson, candidates for the GOP nomination for House District 2.

In northeast Utah, Rep. Petersen faces retired teacher Mike Monson in 2024 primary election

By Sofia Jeremias | June 8, 2024, 6:30 a.m.

(Walter Tschinkel) In 2018 Jack Longino discovered a new ant species in the backyard of his Salt Lake City home.

Utah’s ant man found a new species in his backyard

By Sofia Jeremias | June 5, 2024, 5:38 p.m.

(Murice Miller | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Welcome sign for Green River, Utah. November 25, 2020.

Early families in this Utah desert town ‘literally had to bring a house with them.’ That’s practically still true.

By Sofia Jeremias | June 5, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Justin Williams) Balsam wooly adelgids found on Mount Timpanogos.

The newest threat to the Wasatch forests is almost invisible and really slow

By Sofia Jeremias | May 29, 2024, 10:48 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ben Hart, executive director of the Utah Inland Port Authority, stands on agricultural land slated to soon become industrial development in West Weber County on Monday, May 20, 2024.

Utah Inland Port Authority approves controversial project on sensitive wetlands on the Great Salt Lake

By Sofia Jeremias | May 21, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

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Hiker jogs down path from Ensign Peak above Salt Lake City Tuesday July 16. What can be an amazing view of the valley is diminished with an ozone haze. With higher Summer temperatures ozone pollution is climbing into the moderate level.

Utah could lose federal highway funding if it fails to improve summer air quality. Lawmakers want to fight the feds over it.

By Sofia Jeremias | May 17, 2024, 1:44 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Deaf Smith Canyon trailhead in Cottonwood Heights is pictured on Monday, April 29, 2024. Residents fear losing access to the trail due to a dispute with a family planning to build a home where the trail begins on Golden Oaks Dr.

For years Utahns had to trespass to access this trail. There’s a solution in the works, but they don’t like it.

By Sofia Jeremias | May 16, 2024, 4:14 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The view of Flaming Gorge from the Sheep Creek overlook on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

Here’s what this year’s snowpack means for Utah’s reservoirs and the Great Salt Lake

By Sofia Jeremias | May 15, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) American white pelicans fly alongside black-necked stilts at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, a 74,000-acre nature reserve in the northern Great Salt Lake on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Pelicans at the refuge have flown thousands of miles to get to the Great Salt Lake, where thousands of them will hatch chicks on Gunnison Island, one of the species’ largest breeding colonies.

Pelicans return to a Great Salt Lake island for the first time in decades

By Sofia Jeremias | May 10, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brooks Gibbs, an ADU specialist, talks about the accessory dwelling unit he built beside his own house in Bountiful on Friday, March 22, 2024.

These Utahns built their retirement solution in their backyards

By Sofia Jeremias | May 13, 2024, 8:33 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utahn Leila Knoll, a veterinarian for Navajo Nation and a sewing influencer, poses for a portrait as she spends time in her home sewing studio in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Knoll has gained a huge following by making her own clothes — she's also a climber and makes her own climbing gear.

Young Salt Lakers are elevating this old-world skill to an art form

By Sofia Jeremias | May 3, 2024, 10:42 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Locomotives are pictured with the Salt Lake City skyline on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.

Utahns think their quality of life is getting worse. Here’s what they said.

By Sofia Jeremias | April 30, 2024, 6:48 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Weber County property slated for an inland port on Friday, April 5, 2024.

Massive new Utah port project would turn ‘pristine land’ into a ‘parking lot,’ critics say

By Sofia Jeremias | April 30, 2024, 6:01 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Spinning sprinkler in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.

Here is when you should start watering your lawn in Salt Lake City

By Sofia Jeremias | April 23, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Employees of Foldum Corp, the company hired to provide micro-shelters for the collaboration between the Utah Office of Homeless Services and Salt Lake City, assemble one of the units at the MicroShelter Community in downtown Salt Lake City on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.

Salt Lake City’s microshelter will stay open in current location for a few more months

By Sofia Jeremias | April 22, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)
The ribbon cutting ceremony for Podium's new Lehi headquarters, Wednesday Aug. 15, 2018. Podium helps small businesses manage their web presence. Left to right, Adam Edmunds (president, Podium), Sid Krommenhoek (Peak Ventures), Clint Betts (executive director, Silicon Slopes), Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, Dennis Steele (co-founder, Podium), and Eric Rea (co-founder and CEO, Podium).

Silicon Slopes CEO worries Utah could turn out like California on housing

By Sofia Jeremias | April 19, 2024, 11:58 a.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Wells Fargo Building framed by the American Towers Condos in Salt Lake City, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.

With houses out of reach, condos could fill a need — but they’re expensive, too

By Sofia Jeremias | April 18, 2024, 12:00 p.m.