Courtney Tanner

Reporter

Courtney is a reporter at The Tribune, where she has worked since May 2016. She unwinds by fishing in the mountains far away from cell service. She’s a fan of bacon and Kevin Bacon.

(Isaac Hale | Special to The Tribune) A Brigham Young University student sports various rainbow-colored items on his backpack in support of Rainbow Day as he walks with his friends on the campus of BYU in Provo on Thursday, March 4, 2021. A student at the school was recently called a Mormon term associated with an anti-Christ by a professor. The school has remained silent.

BYU professor calls gay student a Book of Mormon term associated with anti-Christ

By Courtney Tanner | May 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Graduates listen in their cars as commencement speaker Wendy Watson Nelson talks at Utah Valley University in Orem on Friday, May 7, 2021.

After tension over her speaking, here’s what the wife of the LDS president told graduates at Utah Valley University

By Courtney Tanner | May 9, 2021, 6:18 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Wendy Nelson, wife of church President Russell M. Nelson, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. She's set to speak to graduates during commencement at Utah Valley University on Friday, May 7, 2021.

The wife of the LDS president is speaking at Utah Valley University’s commencement. Here’s why LGBTQ students are opposed.

By Courtney Tanner | May 7, 2021, 1:11 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) First lady Jill Biden completes an assignment, writing a statement about herself, at Glendale Middle School in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 5, 2021.

Students at one of Utah’s most diverse schools share their stories, dreams, talents with first lady Jill Biden

By Courtney Tanner | Matt Canham | May 6, 2021, 3:49 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) East High lets out on a rainy day on Monday, April 26, 2021. Salt Lake City School District has seen an improvement in grades, including at its high schools, since students have begun returning for in-person learning this spring.

Grades start to improve in Salt Lake City School District. But don’t expect pre-pandemic scores.

By Courtney Tanner | May 3, 2021, 1:07 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cyprus high students dance at their school prom at the Viridian Event Center on Saturday, April 24, 2021.

What a Utah high school prom looked like in the middle of the pandemic

By Courtney Tanner | May 1, 2021, 11:00 a.m.

(Mark Havnes | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cedar High School in Cedar City in 2011.

A student at a Utah high school threatened to carry out a ‘rape day’ against girls

By Courtney Tanner | April 30, 2021, 3:55 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Crossing guard Bing Kerwood helps students cross the street safely at Bonneville Elementary on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Salt Lake City School District has had 92% of its students return back to the classroom in person this spring, similar to other districts in the county.

You might be surprised by which Salt Lake County school district has the most students learning in person this spring

By Courtney Tanner | April 24, 2021, 12:00 p.m.

(Centennial Middle School via Facebook) Centennial Middle School as seen on the school's Facebook page. The school will revise an assignment where students were told to be slaves after pushback from parents.

Utah school district says it will revise project where students were assigned to be fictional slaves and plantation owners

By Courtney Tanner | April 21, 2021, 3:23 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Vicky Chavez leaves the First Unitarian Church for the first time in more than three years on April 15, 2021. In January 2018, Chavez sought sanctuary at the church, living in a converted Sunday school classroom for more than three years with her two daughters.

‘I am free today’: After three years, Vicky Chavez can safely leave her sanctuary at a Salt Lake City church

By Courtney Tanner | April 16, 2021, 2:27 p.m.