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(Eagle Point Resort) Eagle Point Resort owner Shane Gadbaw takes in the destruction after the Cottonwood Fire burned through the ski area near Beaver on June 22, 2026. The fire burned down the larger of its two day lodges and impacted four of five lifts and half of the resort's 600 acres.

Eagle Point owner shares photos of resort charred by Cottonwood Fire

By Julie Jag | June 30, 2026, 3:01 p.m.

(Nikki Boliaux | The New York Times) Hikers take in the view from the summit of the Angels Landing trail in Zion National Park. A former youth pastor has been charged with murder and insurance fraud following his wife's fall from the trail in 2006.

She fell to her death at Angels Landing. Twenty years later, Utah prosecutors now say her husband pushed her.

By Julie Jag | June 23, 2026, 8:51 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Eureka resident Daniel Rosenbaum checks for updates on the Iron Fire burning in the distance while sheltering in the nearby town of Elberta on Monday, June 22, 2026.

‘Living in a horror movie’: As the Iron Fire bore down on Eureka, residents had minutes to flee

By Julie Jag | June 23, 2026, 5:59 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Mill B Trailhead in Little Cottonwood Canyon is a Recreation Fee area, on Friday, June 12, 2026.

Why some people love, and others oppose, the new Cottonwood Canyon trailhead fees

By Julie Jag | June 21, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Utah Division of Wildlife Resources) The Book Cliffs area in Grand County in July 2025.

Utah’s land trust sells ‘one of the crown jewels’ to DWR for wilderness preservation in $30M deal

By Julie Jag | June 20, 2026, 7:07 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A parcel of land is seen near the road In Cottonwood Heights on Friday, June 5, 2026. UDOT recently closed on the purchase of the land, which would be used for the Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola if the gondola is built.

UDOT just added an $8M piece to the Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola plan

By Julie Jag | June 16, 2026, 4:02 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Snowless terrain is seen from the base of Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.

Park City Mountain faces a fresh challenge over chairlift upgrades

By Julie Jag | June 11, 2026, 12:22 a.m.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) A view of the sandstone cliffs near the Buckhorn Wash area of the San Rafael Swell.

What will change at Utah’s ‘Little Grand Canyon’ after state and BLM sign landmark management agreement

By Julie Jag | June 9, 2026, 11:43 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) In this May 5, 2015, photo hikers walk on the Canyon Overlook Trail in Zion National Park. More than 30,000 people crowded to Zion National Park in a single day over Memorial Day weekend as the iconic red-rock landscape at the already crowded park remains highly popular.

Visitors to Utah’s National Parks were asked to report anti-American signs. This is what they did instead.

By Julie Jag | June 7, 2026, 7:50 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A record-warm winter faces record-high temperatures this week as people take to the slopes at Snowbasin Resort on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.

How much did Utah’s record-warm winter hurt skiing? The numbers are in.

By Julie Jag | June 6, 2026, 1:32 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Shelley Johannesen, 53, of Francis, Utah, is memorialized by her business and life partner Dave Ashley, at their home in Francis, Utah on Friday, May 22, 2026. Johannessen succumbed to internal injuries following an avalanche atop Mount Makalu - the fifth highest peak in the world - in Nepal on May 11. A co-owner of DASH Adventures, which organizes and leads similar expeditions around the world, she was found by Ashley who tried to keep her warm for hours in harrowing conditions.

Summit County woman dies in rare avalanche on world’s 5th-highest peak

By Julie Jag | June 4, 2026, 2:42 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A snowboarder makes their way down into Cobabe Canyon from the top of the private Raintree chairlift at Powder Mountain on Friday, March 21, 2025. Powder Mountain plans to remove the Sunrise Poma lift, the only mechanical link into Cobabe Canyon, after this ski season.

Powder Mountain will remove Sunrise lift, cutting mechanical ties to private ski terrain

By Julie Jag | May 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A young skier cruises to Park City Mountain's Mountain Village base. The base is set to be transformed after the Park City Planning Commission on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, approved an application by the resort to upgrade its Eagle and Silverlode chairlifts.

After years of legal fights, Park City approves major lift upgrades at Park City Mountain

By Julie Jag | May 28, 2026, 12:32 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Snowless terrain is seen from the Mountain Village base of Park City Mountain Resort on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The terrain at the far right is accessed via the Eagle and Eaglet lifts. Park City Mountain is requesting a permit to combine the two lifts to allow better access to the center of the resort.

Park City Mountain’s lift upgrade debate isn’t really about lifts anymore

By Julie Jag | May 27, 2026, 3:44 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Firefighrtes gather together for a news conference and ribbon-cutting at the Wildland Fire Operations Center on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.

Utah’s wildfire season will be as bad as feared — and more expensive, officials say

By Julie Jag | May 21, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth; Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Snowpack around a cabin in Big Cottonwood canyon is shown in photographs in May 2023, left, and May 2026, right.

See the dramatic difference between Utah’s best and worst snow years

By Julie Jag | May 11, 2026, 12:44 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Craig Gordon near Guardsman Pass Road on Monday, May 4, 2026.

Utah’s avalanche legend signs off

By Julie Jag | May 9, 2026, 5:50 p.m.

(Julie Jag | The Salt Lake Tribune) Skiers size up their options at the top of Brighton Resort's Great Western Express on Feb. 9, 2025. Brighton is one of three Utah ski and snowboard resorts that will be open through Sunday.

Utah resorts give people what they want: one more week of ski season

By Julie Jag | May 1, 2026, 9:34 p.m.

(Thaniel Cebulla | Brian Head Resort) A skier enjoys spring corn skiing at Brian Head Resort on April 20, 2026 season. Brian Head will reopen for a bonus weekend Friday with $1 tickets and will close for the season Sunday, May 2, 2026.

This Cottonwood Canyon resort will extend its ski season at least another week

By Julie Jag | April 30, 2026, 10:37 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Girls from "Pickle! at the the disco" party in the parking lot on the final ski day at Alta, on Sunday, April 26, 2026.

No Frank, no problem: Alta’s closing-day spirit endures

By Julie Jag | April 29, 2026, 5:27 p.m.