Rebekah Wahlberg

Copy editor / web manager

After being raised in California and spending a year in Arizona, Utah is the latest stop on Rebekah's tour of the Great American West. Everywhere she goes, she lugs along a pile of DVDs, more books than sense and an abiding love for storytelling in every imaginable media.

(Toby Talbot | AP file photo) Law enforcement agencies across Utah are participating in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 24, 2021, to help people safely disposed of unused or expired prescription medication, such as OxyContin.

Here’s how you can safely dispose of prescription drugs you don’t need

By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 20, 2021, 4:06 a.m.

(Photo courtesy of Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall via Twitter) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall helps plant a tree during a ceremony at the International Peace Gardens in Jordan Park on Monday, April 19, 2021. Mendenhall has committed to planting 1,000 trees in Salt Lake City's west side every year of her term as mayor.

Mendenhall plants first of 1,000 more trees for Salt Lake City’s west side

By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 20, 2021, 2:44 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Daybreak, the 4,100-acre master planned community in South Jordan, was purchased by a new developer. Can you guess which?

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By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 16, 2021, 1:30 p.m.

Man crashes small aircraft at Great Saltair

By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 13, 2021, 3:47 a.m.

(Screenshot via FOX 13) Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera speaks to reporters about a shooting that occurred outside the sheriff's office campus over the weekend on Monday, April 12, 2021.

Salt Lake County sheriff’s deputy released from hospital after shooting

By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 13, 2021, 1:22 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Spring blossoms in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, mark the change of the season along with a transition of the mask mandates which will end statewide Saturday. However, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said nothing will change in the capital.

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By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 9, 2021, 11:00 a.m.

(Photo courtesy of Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announces that the Downtown Ambassador Program is expanding to the North Temple neighborhood, during a news conference on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

Salt Lake City’s Downtown Ambassador Program extends to North Temple

By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 7, 2021, 2:24 a.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) First lady Abby Cox and Gov. Spencer Cox greet Marion Dickey, 83, and Aaron Dickey, 91, as all four received their COVID-19 vaccine from Utah County Health Department in Spanish Fork, March 25, 2021. Cox, who received his vaccine live on camera Thursday, said there's been "great demand" for the COVID-19 vaccine throughout Utah, and credited vaccinations for the declining coronavirus case counts.

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By Rebekah Wahlberg | April 2, 2021, 11:00 a.m.

(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) A woman pulls her daughter home on a sled in Bountiful after an afternoon Jan. 14, 2020. Bountiful was named the third safest city in Utah for 2021, after Spanish Fork, Syracuse and Kaysville.

These are the safest cities in Utah

By Rebekah Wahlberg | March 30, 2021, 1:19 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The grass park strip, where unsheltered people used to pitch their tents, has been replaced by giant rocks on the corner of 700 South and State Street, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.

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By Rebekah Wahlberg | March 26, 2021, 11:05 a.m.