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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Apartments in St. George on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Affordability and available space is hampering the ability to find and retain a workforce, according to local business owners.

St. George service businesses struggle to fill jobs as employees can’t find rentals

By Mark Eddington | May 11, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A Zions Bank branch in Cottonwood Heights, Monday, March 13, 2023.

Zions’ stock rises months after prices plunged as analysts upgrade bank’s outlook

By Megan Banta | May 5, 2023, 9:21 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Christopher Warnock, creator of the startup company Helper Systems, talks about his latest project on Thursday, April 27, 2023. The son of Adobe founder John Warnock, Christopher has set up roots in his ancestral home of Helper.

Big ambitions in a small town: Digital entrepreneur aims to reinvent research from rural Utah

By Tim Fitzpatrick | May 4, 2023, 10:07 p.m.

(Jonathan Crosby) Reporter Shannon Sollitt will begin covering business and workplace issues for The Salt Lake Tribune in July, with support from Report for America.

The Salt Lake Tribune is adding a new business reporter

By The Salt Lake Tribune | April 26, 2023, 7:13 p.m.

(Alecia Ledward) Alecia Ledward.

St. George’s housing crunch leaves working professionals unable to buy a home — or even rent

By Mark Eddington | April 24, 2023, 3:26 p.m.

The Salt Lake Tribune's 2023 Top Workplaces

Are you happy where you work? Now you have more time to nominate your employer for Utah’s Top Workplaces.

By Tony Semerad | April 23, 2023, 2:02 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A collection of 69 specialty license plates issued by the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles.

Utah has dozens of license plate options. Here are the most popular.

By Tim Fitzpatrick | March 30, 2023, 1:25 p.m.

(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.