Taylor Stevens

State Government Reporter

Taylor covers Utah politics and government for The Tribune, where she has worked since January 2017. A Salt Lake native and Westminster College alumna, Taylor first joined The Tribune team as an intern on a single day’s notice.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skyler Marshall, street outreach case manager for the nonprofit Youth Futures, driving in St. George on Friday, June 11, 2021.

Advocates want a needle exchange program in St. George to help the city’s homeless, but not everyone’s on board

By Bethany Rodgers | Taylor Stevens | August 31, 2021, 1:20 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The food pantry at the Switchpoint shelter in St. George on Friday, June 11, 2021.

To stand without government funding, a St. George homeless shelter runs a dog daycare and other side businesses

By Taylor Stevens | Bethany Rodgers | August 12, 2021, 12:22 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Switchpoint Development director Linda Stay, right, embraces Jan Ericksen, a resident of the shelter in St. George on Friday, June 11, 2021.

‘I can hardly look anyone in the eye’: St. George’s homeless feel shame in the conservative culture

By Bethany Rodgers | Taylor Stevens | August 18, 2021, 11:37 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ernie Erickson and Britny McCurdy, who are homeless and living along the shore of the Jordan River, accept legal help resolving outstanding warrants or charges as Judge Jeanne Robison speaks with a prosecutor through her phone from the back seat of a canoe on Friday, July 16, 2021.

‘Kayak court’ brings the justice system to Salt Lake City’s homeless on the banks of the Jordan River

By Taylor Stevens | July 27, 2021, 12:52 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A sleeping bag in the brush near the Mill Creek river in Moab on June 3, 2021.

‘Done with Moab:’ Now living in his car, longtime community DJ says the town is unaffordable

By Taylor Stevens | Bethany Rodgers | July 27, 2021, 7:37 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mike “Marlow” Mewborn lives in a cave outside Moab. He was photographed on June 4, 2021.

Moab ‘dirtbaggers’ blur the line between homeless and not

By Bethany Rodgers | Taylor Stevens | July 27, 2021, 7:40 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rim Vistas, a subdivision in Moab on Thursday, July 15, 2021.

Moab locals say tourists, newcomers are running them out of their own community

By Bethany Rodgers | Taylor Stevens | July 19, 2021, 9:28 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mike "Marlow" Mewborn drinks coffee in the cave outside of Moab where he lives, on June 4, 2021.

Photo essay: Moab's homeless live 'just on the edge of survival'

By Taylor Stevens | Trent Nelson | Bethany Rodgers | July 15, 2021, 1:37 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Chiemi Maloy, 31, who moved in with her parents in West Bountiful toward the start of the pandemic, finds herself still there as she tries to save money and search for a new job and place to live.

Utah renters are doubling up with roommates, family members to make ends meet

By Taylor Stevens | Bethany Rodgers | July 14, 2021, 3:58 p.m.

(Keegan Rice | Special to The Tribune) From left, Bekah King, Abi Roberts and Morgan Tabor in their converted school bus outside Jackson, Wyo., Thursday, July 8, 2021. The women, who were all dating the same man, came together after finding out their boyfriend was cheating and realized they shared a dream of traveling the United States in a bus.

After discovering their mutual cheating boyfriend, 3 Utah and Idaho women moved into a bus to see the West together

By Taylor Stevens | July 14, 2021, 4:30 p.m.