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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Volunteers and staff prepare for the Qualtrics X4 Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The three-day conference, aimed at customer service and human resources executives at major companies, closed out Thursday, March 9, 2023.

Women at center of three days of corporate tech talk at X4 Summit in Salt Lake City

By Palak Jayswal | March 11, 2023, 12:27 a.m.

(Office of the Governor) Gov. Spencer Cox, right, talks with Chelsie Bright of Qualtrics, left, and Utah CIO Rich Saunders in a keynote at the X4 Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center on March 8, 2023.

Gov. Cox, at X4 Summit keynote, says ‘trust is the currency of government’

By Palak Jayswal | March 9, 2023, 2:17 p.m.

(Paul Sancya | AP) Asbestos abatement in Howell, Mich. in 2017. A proposed bill in Utah would make it harder for people exposed to the product to sue.

Bill would raise major barriers to sue for asbestos injuries in Utah

By Eric Peterson | March 3, 2023, 5:37 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The nonprofit Ivory Innovations has released its list of 25 best concepts for housing affordability. Three of those concepts will ultimately share a top prize of $300,000. One of the competition categories is for new home construction. Here, construction is underway at a Daybreak project in South Jordan on Thursday, May 19, 2022, is one of the contest categories.

Big ideas in affordable housing will compete for $300K in nonprofit’s annual contest

By Sofia Jeremias | February 28, 2023, 1:03 p.m.

(Direct Action Everywhere) A photo provided by the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere shows defendant Wayne Hsiung speaking outside the Fifth District courthouse in St. George. Hsiung and another defendant are accused of stealing piglets from a farm in Beaver County.

Bill targets removing injured livestock after not-guilty verdict against animal rights activists

By Mark Eddington | February 7, 2023, 3:20 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Talia and Max Walker and other residents along South Salt Lake's Winslow Avenue worry that a proposed rezone and expansion of the Mark Miller Subaru car dealership lot near their homes will encroach and threaten the character of their neighborhood, Feb. 1, 2023.

Why neighbors are fighting a South Salt Lake car dealership’s expansion

By Tony Semerad | February 7, 2023, 9:12 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lassonde Studios on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. The Utah Legislature is considering a bill to create a Utah Innovation Lab that would fund startup businesses coming out of university entrepreneurs at Lassonde and elsewhere.

‘Utah Innovation Lab’ would be a state-sponsored angel investor for university startups

By Tim Fitzpatrick | February 4, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) New housing construction pops up in Eagle Mountain on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Rising interest rates have made it harder to address Utah's housing deficit.

Housing — its short supply and cost — will continue to grip Utah’s 2023 economy

By Tim Fitzpatrick | January 12, 2023, 6:57 p.m.

(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Should every Utahn be able to get a landline? Not anymore, says the company that sells them.

By Tim Fitzpatrick | January 5, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Senior creative manager Brad Murdock works in the photo studio at Manly Bands in Lindon.

From ‘Lord of the Rings’ to whiskey barrels, this Utah company makes men’s rings of it all

By Leto Sapunar | December 27, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Melyna Harrison at her home in Lindon on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. After 13 years with doTERRA, Harrison is a “presidential diamond wellness advocate,” having risen from earning $1,300 a week in sales to managing a team of 500,000 in 30 countries.

Multilevel marketing ‘didn’t feel icky to me,’ one Utahn says, as tech has transformed selling

By Leto Sapunar | Holly Mullen | December 20, 2022, 4:35 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nat Gillot, stirs a pot of Pinto Bean Soup, while volunteering with the Food Justice Coalition, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.

How a member of the Utah Homelessness Council upended a feed-the-hungry program

By Sofia Jeremias | December 15, 2022, 12:42 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Aaron Skonnard, CEO of Utah tech company Pluralsight, speaks at the Silicon Slopes Summit on Sept. 30, 2022. On Monday, Skonnard announced Pluralsight was laying off 20% of its workforce.

Utah tech layoffs continue, as yet another company valued over $1B sheds hundreds of workers

By Paighten Harkins | Sheila McCann | December 12, 2022, 11:28 p.m.

(Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Construction continues on a water park at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in Hurricane, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022.

Where will a desert water park get water?

By Mark Eddington | December 12, 2022, 4:04 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The pandemic allowed many remote workers to move across the country, including Chris Kneeland, who moved his family from Canada back to Utah, where he first met his wife while attending Brigham Young University. Kneeland, pictured on Nov. 2, 2022, does most of his work from home and occasionally commutes to Calgary.

Out-of-state transplants to Utah fuel growth and drive up housing costs

By Leto Sapunar | November 8, 2022, 5:36 p.m.

(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Hybrid work: If you’re not experimenting, you’re failing

By Bob Helbig | Special to The Tribune | November 4, 2022, 8:24 p.m.

(Photo: Business Wire) Employees are growing increasingly uneasy about where they are working.

Workers are doing plenty of post-pandemic soul-searching

By Bob Helbig | Special to The Tribune | November 3, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Intergalactic) From left, Brian McCann, CEO of Intergalactic; astronaut Megan McArthur; RAM co-founders Melzie and Ray Ganowsky; and Gregg Robison, CEO of RAM Aviation, Space & Defense.

St. George aerospace companies playing key roles in space exploration

By Mark Eddington | November 2, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Utah Foster Care) Nick Ford, right, a University of Utah offensive lineman, helps cook food at Cultivate Craft Kitchen during a Sunday dinner event with Utah Foster Care — one of the services the nonprofit provides to assist foster parents across the state.

‘We’re always in need’: How Utah Foster Care works to retain good foster parents

By Palak Jayswal | November 2, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Nate Romero, Greg Price, Alicia Gardner and Kristy Widerberg from Health Equity share a laugh at a Top Workplaces award ceremony in 2015.

Here are ways to show employees they are appreciated

By Bob Helbig | Energage | November 2, 2022, 12:00 p.m.