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(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Customers look at the perfume selection at Solvi in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026.

‘If everything is terrible, at least you can smell good’: This Salt Lake City store is fueling Utahns’ perfume obsession

By Paighten Harkins | September 13, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Northrop Grumman executive Tom Jones cuts the ribbon at a new manufacturing facility in Layton supporting the B-21 Raider.

How Utah is helping to build the next-generation B-21 stealth bomber

By Paighten Harkins | September 10, 2026, 12:15 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The site for the Creekstone Energy Data Center Campus on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.

Developers of the ‘largest data center campus in the world’ in Utah say they’ll do something unprecedented — make water

By Paighten Harkins | September 9, 2026, 2:42 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) An automatic license plate reader is pictured along 600 North and Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026.

While other Utah cities have embraced controversial cameras, these said no — for now

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

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tyler Robinson, charged in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, sits during closing arguments by defense attorney Staci Visser, at his preliminary hearing in 4th District Court in Provo on Tuesday.

People are betting on the man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk. Here’s why his attorneys say they are concerned.

By Jessica Schreifels | Paighten Harkins | September 2, 2026, 12:36 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Passengers enter security screening at Salt Lake City International Airport on March 23. Starting this week, alt Lake City International Airport is one of 14 U.S. airports chosen for the Transportation Security Administration’s new “Gateside by TSA PreCheck” program.

New program at SLC airport might change LDS missionaries’ homecomings and your friends’ long layovers

By Paighten Harkins | September 2, 2026, 9:33 p.m.

(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Amid legal battle with Utah-based KÜHL, New York City’s Kule says it’s shutting down

By Paighten Harkins | August 30, 2026, 9:33 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Qualtrics in Provo on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.

Qualtrics lays off employees in Utah and across the globe after $6.75B acquisition

By Paighten Harkins | August 22, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Jeff Dempsey | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pints of Rebel and Van Leeuwen pistachio ice creams. A judge ruled that Utah-based Rebel Creamery was using packaging that was too similar to Van Leeuwen's.

This Utah ice cream looks too much like a popular New York competitor, a court says. You can still buy it while it fights a $23 million judgment.

By Paighten Harkins | August 22, 2026, 5:26 p.m.

(Abigail Landwehr | The Salt Lake Tribune) The former Fingerhut warehouse at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon is being considered as the site of a proposed data center. Volition, a Provo-based company, wants to build its center in the million-square-foot warehouse that currently operates as a distribution center.

As other local governments pass data center bans, this Utah city is considering changing code to bring one in

By Paighten Harkins | August 21, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) An Intermountain Health LifeFlight helicopter departs Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.

Here’s what we know about the police presence at Intermountain Medical Center

By Jordan Miller | Paighten Harkins | August 17, 2026, 11:47 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Onlookers watch as police investigate a shooting that occurred outside a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kearns, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026.

1 killed, schools briefly locked down after shooting at Kearns funeral service

By Jordan Miller | Paighten Harkins | August 17, 2026, 11:25 p.m.

(Pat Sutphin | Special to The Tribune) Michelle Skidmore, owner of Soda Tsunami, poses for a portrait on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at her soda trailer in Idaho Falls, Idaho. According to Skidmore, a Swig plans to open down the street from her truck, which could put her business in jeopardy. "I'm really concerned," she said. "I think Swig is the bees knees, but having them come in here is very intimidating."

Utah juggernaut Swig inspired other small dirty soda shops. Now, it’s moving in on them.

By Paighten Harkins | August 6, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. McKell sponsored SB287 (the “Targeted Advertising Tax” bill) during the latest legislative session.

In rare move, Utah lawmakers decided to tax large tech companies. A new lawsuit argues it’s illegal.

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

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Trolley Square and Trolley Corners in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

Trolley problem: Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square wants to own the ‘Trolley’ name — and is suing its longtime neighbor

By Paighten Harkins | July 31, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Swig staff crank through orders as the Salt Lake Bees in South Jordan become the Utah Dirty Sodas on Wednesday nights, when the stadium offers $3 dirty sodas, Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

Swig wants to be the Starbucks of dirty soda. Does the ‘quirky Utah’ drink have national appeal? Here’s what its CEO said.

By Paighten Harkins | Samantha Moilanen | July 31, 2026, 5:48 p.m.

(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.