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(Paighten Harkins | The Salt Lake Tribune) Veo scooters wait for riders at the intersection of 400 South and 200 West on Thursday, July 23, 2026.

What to know about the new rental scooters now on Salt Lake City streets

By Paighten Harkins | July 24, 2026, 1:30 p.m.

(Disney) Demi Engemann, left, and Taylor Frankie Paul, right, hold Swig cups in a scene from Hulu's "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives." The reality show helped spread the "dirty soda" trend nationwide, but the business model launched long before that, a marketing expert said.

Before TikTok and ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,’ Utah had already built the dirty soda craze

By Samantha Moilanen | Paighten Harkins | July 20, 2026, 5:01 p.m.

(Melinda Sue Gordon | Universal Pictures) Matt Damon plays Odysseus, and Zendaya plays Athena, in Christopher Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey." The movie opened in theaters nationwide on Friday, July 17, 2026.

Want to see ‘The Odyssey’ on an IMAX screen as big as Christopher Nolan intended? Here are your Utah options.

By Paighten Harkins | July 17, 2026, 10:28 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Decals are applied to a wheel at the ENVE Composites facility on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.

The Tour de France leader is riding on wheels made in Utah

By Paighten Harkins | July 17, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fans cheer "four more years" after Belgium defeated the United States in the World Cup during a watch party at Beer Bar in Salt Lake City on Monday, July 6, 2026.

This bar is one of the best to watch World Cup soccer in SLC — but you’ll want to arrive early

By Paighten Harkins | July 14, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(American Fork Police Department) Police body camera shows California YouTuber Ben Schneider in handcuffs as he is escorted to an American Fork police car during his March 11, 2026, arrest.

Viral Reckless Ben Lego videos skewer American Fork police. Here’s a look at 5 key moments.

By Jordan Miller | Samantha Moilanen | Paighten Harkins | Jessica Schreifels | Megan Banta | Andy Larsen | July 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Vector Defense in Bluffdale on Thursday, April 30, 2026.

Here’s why the nation’s next generation of defense companies keep choosing to build in Utah

By Paighten Harkins | July 13, 2026, 8:02 p.m.

(Pool photo) Surveillance cameras shown in 4th District Court purporting to show Tyler Robinson on the campus of Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, is shown during a preliminary hearing for Robinson, accused in the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, in Provo on Tuesday, July 7, 2026.

Watch: Surveillance videos played in Charlie Kirk killing case, after Tyler Robinson’s lawyers tried to keep them out

By Jessica Schreifels | Paighten Harkins | July 8, 2026, 4:25 a.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fireworks sit on a table at a Dragon Dynamite Fireworks stand in Clinton on Monday, June 29, 2026.

‘We can’t afford to close’: Utah fireworks stands caught between the ban and their bills

By Paighten Harkins | July 2, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cases of eggs in storage at a Salt Lake City bakery on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. Utah will receive about 125,000 cartons of eggs as part of a settlement over a scheme involving three major egg producers who conspired to illegally drive up prices across Utah and other states, the Utah attorney general’s office announced.

In this economy? Major egg producers ‘conspired’ to drive up prices, settlement says. Here’s what Utah gets.

By Carmen Nesbitt | Paighten Harkins | July 1, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Iron Fire burns west of Elberta in Juab County on Monday, June 22, 2026. Winds out of the south are bringing smoke from that fire toward Salt Lake City.

Here’s why the wildfire smoke in Salt Lake City likely won’t clear anytime soon, forecasters say

By Paighten Harkins | June 23, 2026, 6:23 p.m.

(Hiroko Masuike | The New York Times) A Senegal fan cheers before France plays Senegal during the 2026 FIFA World Cup in East Rutherford, N.J., on June 16, 2026. Lindon-based Fortem Technologies was contracted to protect World Cup games from potential drone attacks.

This Utah defense company is getting millions to protect 2026 FIFA World Cup venues from potential drone attacks

By Paighten Harkins | June 19, 2026, 4:02 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jefferson Moss, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, speaks at an event in Brigham City, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. Moss said Lunar Resources' expansion to Utah "will serve as a powerful economic catalyst."

Utah just lured in a cutting-edge power manufacturing company, promising its largest factory yet and more than 400 jobs

By Paighten Harkins | June 17, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Meta's Eagle Mountain Data Center on Friday, May 2, 2025.

There’s a key reason data center developers are increasingly drawn to Utah — and it lies underground

By Paighten Harkins | June 17, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Firefighters work to contain a brush fire near Ensign Peak in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.

Firefighters slow wildfire in Salt Lake City foothills

By Paighten Harkins | June 10, 2026, 10:07 p.m.

(Wing) A Wing delivery drone loaded with a Walmart package.

In Salt Lake City, you can soon get your groceries delivered by drone, Walmart announces

By Paighten Harkins | June 10, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(John Raoux | AP) Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Companies including Blue Origin are exploring orbital data centers they say could someday complement computing facilities on Earth — and perhaps replace them.

As Utah debates data centers on Earth, these companies are looking to space

By Paighten Harkins | June 10, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. A Utah mother was charged with attempted murder after prosecutors say she shot her ex-husband at a Salt Lake City indoor playground.

‘Showtime,’ then gunfire: Utah mother charged with attempted murder in Salt Lake City playground shooting

By Paighten Harkins | June 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chris Cianciola, NASA's acting Space Launch System manager, speaks at the farewell for the Artemis III boosters at the Northrop Grumman facility in Corinne on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

‘Built right here’: Crucial parts for the next Artemis mission just left this small Utah town for Kennedy Space Center

By Paighten Harkins | June 3, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A cyclist pedals though Liberty Park in Salt Lake City on an e-bike on Monday, May 22, 2023.

Want a discounted e-bike? You need to act fast.

By Paighten Harkins | June 1, 2026, 8:32 p.m.