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.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Vicky Chavez has been living at the First Unitarian Church for more than 3 years, pictured on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. She has now been granted a stay and is free to leave with her two young daughters.

After three years, Vicky Chavez can safely leave her sanctuary at a Salt Lake City church

By Courtney Tanner | April 15, 2021, 4:44 p.m.

(Eli Lucero | Herald Journal) Members of the Olsen and Thorell family hold pride flags during a rally in support of LGBTQ students on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at Ridgeline High School in Millville.

Video shows student cutting down pride flag at Utah high school as others cheer

By Courtney Tanner | Sean P. Means | April 15, 2021, 1:50 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Students protest at the University of Utah Police Department in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, calling for action against Officer Miguel Deras and the defunding of the police department.

Former police chief and officer who showed explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey seek $10M from University of Utah

By Courtney Tanner | April 14, 2021, 11:04 p.m.

(Eli Lucero |Herald Journal) Old Main on the campus of Utah State University is lit up in rainbow colors on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Logan.

Utah State lights up Old Main in rainbow colors to show solidarity with LGBTQ students at BYU

By Courtney Tanner | April 14, 2021, 7:17 p.m.

(Isaac Hale | Special to The Tribune) The Y on Y Mountain east of Provo is lit in rainbow-flag colors to show support for the LGBTQ+ community on Thursday, March 4, 2021.

LGBTQ students at BYU light up the ‘Y’ in rainbow colors

By Courtney Tanner | April 14, 2021, 4:04 p.m.

(Steve C. Wilson | University of Utah via Associated Press) This Aug. 21, 2018, photo shows Lauren McCluskey, a member of the University of Utah cross country and track and field team. McCluskey was shot and killed on campus on Oct. 22 by a man she had briefly dated, Melvin Rowland, who was found dead hours later inside a church.

Here’s an updated timeline of the slaying of University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey and reform that has followed

By Courtney Tanner | Sean P. Means | April 14, 2021, 5:00 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Current naming is pictured around Bountiful High on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 after the school announced it would to retire The Braves name. The school's new mascot will be "The Redhawks," announced on Friday, April 9, 2021.

Bountiful High names new mascot to replace controversial ‘Braves’

By Courtney Tanner | April 9, 2021, 9:44 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jane Erickson hangs a welcome back banner with help from Lavell and Olivia Manavahe as students return to Highland High School in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Starting next fall, the start time for the high school will be pushed back an hour to let students sleep in longer.

Salt Lake City is going to start classes an hour later so high schoolers can sleep in

By Courtney Tanner | April 9, 2021, 4:16 a.m.

(Screenshot) Ryan Gabriel, an assistant professor at Brigham Young University, gives a devotional address online on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

Black BYU professor urges Latter-day Saints to end ‘sin of racism’

By Courtney Tanner | April 7, 2021, 9:06 p.m.

(Lynn R. Johnson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Standing on the roof of the new East High School, then-principal Kay Peterson, framed in the window on left, watches as crews demolish the west wall of the old school in August 1996. The school was one of the first in Salt Lake City School District to be rebuilt to be seismically safe.

How this ‘earthquake nut’ prompted one Utah school district to make all of its buildings safer

By Courtney Tanner | March 28, 2021, 2:10 p.m.