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Samantha Moilanen

Reporter

(Riverdale City Police Department) A Riverdale police vehicle.

Weber School District teacher’s husband, 3 children killed in Riverdale house fire

By Samantha Moilanen | October 1, 2026, 8:09 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A large rooster on the roof of one of DOMO's offices in American Fork, where 175 workers were laid off after the Utah County business analytics company changed hands.

A Utah tech darling’s A.I. business just changed hands. Now, 175 local workers are losing their jobs.

By Samantha Moilanen | October 1, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(U.S. District Court) This image is included in a lawsuit filed by Robert L. Hild, Jr., against podcaster Candace Owens. Hild, who is seen in the photo with two of his friends, says the placement of the photo next to a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phrase “Pretty Little Liars?” and other elements imply that Hild had some role in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Candace Owens falsely accused him of being involved in Charlie Kirk’s killing, Utah man alleges in new defamation lawsuit

By Sheila McCann | Samantha Moilanen | September 30, 2026, 12:05 a.m.

(Samantha Moilanen | The Salt Lake Tribune) Smoke rises up from a three-alarm fire in Salt Lake City's Granary District on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026.

Fire in Granary District sends plume of black smoke over downtown Salt Lake City

By Sean P. Means | Samantha Moilanen | September 28, 2026, 4:25 p.m.

(Samantha Moilanen | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jordan North 6th Ward Bishop Brent Newton, left, and Jordan North 5th Ward Bishop Steve Jester pull church documents from 1980 out of a time capsule at a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in West Valley City on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026.

An LDS church will be torn down for the Bangerter Highway project. Before that happens, members dug up a piece of its past.

By Samantha Moilanen | September 27, 2026, 4:26 p.m.

(Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) Mink look out from a pen on a farm near Naestved, Denmark, on Nov. 6, 2020. Denmark ordered the culling of all farmed mink in the country during the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Watch them die’: Bird flu is ravaging a Utah mink farm, killing 80% of the herd. State agriculture officials have no clear plan.

By Samantha Moilanen | September 27, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Homes are seen in Vineyard, where a former contracted IT worker is accused of accessing the city's email system after he was fired, then leaking confidential emails on social media.

A Utah city cut ties with an IT worker. He later leaked hundreds of ‘confidential’ city emails on social media, prosecutors say.

By Samantha Moilanen | September 24, 2026, 4:33 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Emigration Canyon, pictured on Sept. 15, 2026, is one of the areas where HF Sinclair is studying potential routes for a proposed expansion of the Pioneer Pipeline, which carries refined fuel from Wyoming into Utah.

Here’s what we know about the fuel pipeline project proposed for Emigration Canyon

By Samantha Moilanen | September 25, 2026, 5:45 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Riley Beesley, chairman of the Utah College Republicans, chats with Rylie Barnes, vice president of the University of Utah's College Republicans club, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026.

University of Utah apologizes, drops doxxing allegations against 2 Republican students after ‘Kirkiversary’ cake photo

By Samantha Moilanen | Courtney Tanner | September 18, 2026, 8:09 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Taylor Flake, whose home is across the street from the proposed data center site, speaks in opposition to the project at the Juab County Commission meeting at Rocky Ridge Town Hall on Sept. 8, 2026.

These Utah neighbors say they were ‘totally in the dark’ about a $10B data center campus. Now they’re fighting back.

By Samantha Moilanen | September 16, 2026, 2:52 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) People fill Rocky Ridge Town Hall as Taylor Flake, whose home sits across from the site of a proposed data center campus near Mona, speaks in opposition to the project during a Juab County Commission meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026.

A Utah county OK’d a data center campus the size of 20 Costcos. Neighbors say they were left ‘in the dark.’

By Samantha Moilanen | September 14, 2026, 3:51 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Junior Goya Dance Group performs at the Salt Lake City Greek Festival on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026.

A little church bazaar grew into the largest Greek festival west of the Mississippi. Now it’s celebrating a milestone.

By Samantha Moilanen | September 13, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Utah Air National Guard) An Apache helicopter flies over Utah County. The Utah Army National Guard will conduct flyovers Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, at 26 high school football games along the Wasatch Front, to commemorate the 9/11 attacks.

Military helicopters will fly over Utah high school football games to mark 9/11. Here’s where — and when — to look up.

By Samantha Moilanen | September 11, 2026, 4:33 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Charlie Kirk, at the last event he held at Utah Valley University, appears on screen as people watch the memorial services for Charlie Kirk during an event at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo on Sept. 21, 2025.

After Sharon McMahon’s speech was canceled, why can Turning Point hold a Charlie Kirk memorial at UVU?

By Samantha Moilanen | September 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A massive lightning bolt strikes behind the Utah Capitol as an evening storm rolls into the Salt Lake Valley on Monday, Aug. 24. Recent monsoon rain hasn't boosted Utah's reservoirs.

Monsoon rain hasn’t done much to refill Utah’s shrinking reservoirs. Here’s why.

By Samantha Moilanen | September 2, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Soni Laumape plays in open play during an international pickleball tournament for Pacific Islanders hosted by the Glendale club The Die Hard Pickleballerz in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026.

They wanted to host an international pickleball tournament on SLC’s west side. The Trump admin denied some players’ visas.

By Samantha Moilanen | August 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cars pass by a "ghost bike" memorial on 800 South in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, for a cyclist killed in a crash on Aug. 25.

A bicyclist died on a busy SLC road. Bike advocates say city streets have been unsafe for years.

By Samantha Moilanen | Andy Larsen | August 29, 2026, 3:25 p.m.

(Amy Lombard | The New York Times) Utah-based Crumbl Cookies, which has more than 1,000 locations nationwide, laid off employees at its Utah County headquarters this month.

Crumbl’s explosive growth has slowed. Now, it’s laid off more workers at its Utah headquarters.

By Samantha Moilanen | August 27, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Google Maps) The Juab County General Office in Nephi, Utah.

Juab County employee accused of charging thousands on government credit cards for personal use. She said the charges were accidental.

By Samantha Moilanen | August 23, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Tyson Foods meat processing plant in Eagle Mountain.

Utah layoffs are ticking up, with hundreds soon out of work at one company alone. Here’s what to do when the paychecks stop.

By Samantha Moilanen | Andy Larsen | August 23, 2026, 12:00 p.m.