David Noyce

Managing editor

David is a managing editor at The Tribune, where he has worked since 1984. He oversees coverage ranging from the environment and public lands to alcohol policy, polygamy and food. In addition, he directs religion reporting, co-hosts the award-winning “Mormon Land” podcast and writes the Mormon Land newsletter.

(File photo illustration by Amy Lewis | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Latest from Mormon Land: God’s silent partner, new mission for ex-governor’s top aide, Russell Nelson’s place in history

By David Noyce | January 20, 2021, 9:28 p.m.

(Image courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An artist's rendering of the exterior of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' to-be-constructed Deseret Peak Utah Temple in Tooele.

After community pushback, LDS Church renames, relocates Tooele temple

By David Noyce | Tony Semerad | January 20, 2021, 12:32 a.m.

(John Locher | AP) Nathan Chen performs during the men's free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, in Las Vegas. This week he will participate in the virtual parade for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

Next up for Salt Lake City skating star Nathan Chen: a spot in Joe Biden’s inaugural parade

By David Noyce | January 18, 2021, 6:43 p.m.

(Rick Egan | Tribune file). People who were camping on Rio Grande Street in Salt Lake City gather their belongings in December 2020. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced $3.3 million in donations to help shelter homeless Utahns.

This week in Mormon Land: Funding to help the homeless; prisoners get own district; women urge Trump’s removal

By David Noyce | January 14, 2021, 3:28 p.m.

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Apostle Ulisses Soares speaks Saturday, April 4, 2020.

A third Latter-day Saint apostle has contracted and recovered from COVID-19

By David Noyce | January 9, 2021, 4:35 a.m.

(Rick Bowmer | AP file photo) Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks during a news conference on Oct. 15, 2020. Romney is the most prominent Latter-day Saint in the 117th Congress.

This week in Mormon Land: The Capitol gang, ‘First Vision’ poems, youth theme songs

By David Noyce | January 7, 2021, 7:21 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo)
Dieter F. Uchtdorf speaks at the General Women's Session of the 186th Semiannual General Conference, in Salt Lake City, Saturday Sept. 24, 2016.

This week in Mormon Land: Remembering an LDS prophet’s surprising death and the decade’s best General Conference talks

By David Noyce | December 31, 2020, 3:47 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) It has been a tumultuous 2020 with a magnitude 5.7 earthquake shaking the Salt Lake Valley, hurricane-force winds toppling thousands of trees, raging wildfires forcing record evacuations, protests against racism and police violence snaking through city streets and, of course, the coronavirus casting a pall over everything. Along the way, Spencer Cox will become Utah's first new governor in more than a decade, Mitt Romney made history with his vote to oust a president from his own party, and the parents of slain student athlete Lauren McCluskey settled their lawsuit with the University of Utah.

Utah in 2020: With COVID, an earthquake, winds and fires, it was a year many may like to forget — but never will

By David Noyce | December 30, 2020, 7:00 p.m.

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New church symbol.

This week in Mormon Land: Court rules on the ‘Christian’ question; BYU prof paints women giving healing blessings

By David Noyce | December 23, 2020, 9:12 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A handcarved Nativity scene.

This week in Mormon Land: The missing women in Bethlehem; revisiting ‘Wear Pants to Church Day’; and the Uchtdorfs celebrate

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | December 17, 2020, 3:47 p.m.