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(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) Ryan Smith, executive chairman of Utah-based Qualtrics International, at the 2018 Silicon Slopes Tech Summit at the Salt Lake City. Qualtrics is going public and its Thursday stock offering is expected to be one of the largest in Utah history.

Qualtrics poised to break another Utah record with Thursday stock sale. How much might it raise?

By Tony Semerad | January 28, 2021, 12:49 a.m.

Weber County Crime Scene investigator arrested on sex crime charges

By Sara Tabin | January 28, 2021, 12:56 a.m.

Man under investigation for hate crime after shots are fired at two Hispanic men

Utah has administered more than a quarter of a million COVID-19 vaccinations

(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) This file photo shows equipment in the oil fields southeast of Vernal, Feb. 7, 2012. The new Biden administration has announced a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters, potentially slowing down further development in Utah’s Uinta Basin.

President Joe Biden halts federal oil and gas leasing to review the program

By Brian Maffly | January 27, 2021, 11:28 p.m.

(New London Fire Department via AP) This photo, provided by the New London, Conn., Fire Department, shows a fire-damaged storage shed, at right, where Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of the online shoe retailer Zappos died on Nov. 18, 2020. The cause of the fire that killed Hsieh could not be determined, a Connecticut investigator said in a report, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021.

Fire that killed Tony Hsieh may have been carelessness or intentional, officials say

By Kristin Hussey and David Streitfeld | The New York Times | January 27, 2021, 5:35 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A socially distanced waiting area for Utah County residents to get their COVID-19 vaccinations in a former Shopko store in Spanish Fork, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.

Utah is about to run out of COVID-19 vaccines — again

By Scott D. Pierce | January 27, 2021, 10:53 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of Hogle Zoo) Nikita the polar bear — who stands 10 and a half feet tall on his hind legs — is coming to Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City from North Carolina.

Hogle Zoo to say goodbye to Hope the polar bear — but a new bear arrives soon

By Sara Tabin | January 27, 2021, 3:00 p.m.

HEALTH

Utah has administered more than a quarter of a million COVID-19 vaccinations

By Scott D. Pierce | January 27, 2021, 9:46 p.m.

Utah will take over incoming COVID-19 vaccine doses that had been assigned to CVS and Walgreens for nursing homes

Utah’s COVID-19 positivity rate falls, but the number of deaths continues to climb

Utah’s Primary Children’s Hospital will help lead 5-year study of a mystery illness that strikes children who get COVID-19

One in 5 of Utah’s COVID-19 deaths has happened since the beginning of 2021

EDUCATION

Here’s the timeline for replacing University of Utah President Ruth Watkins — and more on her departure

By Courtney Tanner | January 27, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

Elementary students are returning to Salt Lake City schools in person for the first time since March

More Utah college students report being stalked. Here’s why experts are both worried and hopeful.

Here’s how to find out how safe each of Utah’s colleges are

Lawmakers threaten funding cuts if Salt Lake City schools don’t reopen as promised

CRIME

Salt Lake City officers followed rules in fatal shooting outside grocery store, says review board

By Paighten Harkins | January 25, 2021, 10:14 p.m.

Utah woman charged in the death of her 4-month-old daughter

Utah Senate approves bill requiring certification for K-9 police dogs

How an ex-U.S. attorney for Utah’s push for Trump pardons fits his about-face on criminal justice

Utah courts are making a ‘cautious return’ to restart jury trials. Here’s what you need to know.

ENVIRONMENT

President Joe Biden halts federal oil and gas leasing to review the program

By Brian Maffly | January 27, 2021, 11:28 p.m.

Biden to announce halting new oil and gas drilling leases on federal land

Utah sticks coal executives with $2.3 million fines for mess created by failed plant

Utah’s most productive coal mine gets a life line from Trump’s federal land managers

President Joe Biden’s order to review Utah monuments leaves options open, but expansion all but certain

MORE ENVIRONMENT

POLITICS

Bill to require fathers to pay 50% of pregnancy costs advances through Utah House committee

By Taylor Stevens | January 28, 2021, 12:06 a.m.

Nominee for U.N. ambassador joins Mitt Romney to warn about Chinese influence in Africa

Mitt Romney says Tokyo Olympic Games should be held despite the pandemic

Utah legislator tries again to pass bill allowing women in jails to stay on birth control

New bill seeks to rein in Utah no-knock warrants like the one used in Breonna Taylor case

BUSINESS

Qualtrics poised to break another Utah record with Thursday stock sale. How much might it raise?

By Tony Semerad | January 28, 2021, 12:49 a.m.

Sizzling Wasatch Front home sales, prices reached record highs. Here’s why.

Despite the pandemic, Utah ended 2020 with more jobs. How did that happen?

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to lead the state’s business-promoting World Trade Center

After a horrific 2020, downtown Salt Lake City positioned for a post-pandemic rebound