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(Jeff Parrott) A large air tanker from Hill Air Force Base drops red fire retardant on the Bonnville Fire in Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 21, 2026. The fire started on Saturday in the foothills behind the University of Utah.

Watch: Tanker jets fight the Salt Lake City foothills wildfire

By Jeff Parrott | June 21, 2026, 11:07 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Bonneville Fire is seen from Mountain View Golf Course in West Jordan, Sunday, June 21, 2026.

SLC wildfire: Evacuations a ‘low probability,’ but firefighters tell Arlington Hills neighborhood to be ‘ready’

By Jeff Parrott | June 22, 2026, 5:50 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Senate President J. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 6, 2026.

Utah’s top lawmaker — facing primary challenge and ‘public feedback’ — backpedals on Kevin O’Leary’s data center plan

By Jeff Parrott | June 1, 2026, 8:55 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People gather for the Salt Lake County Democratic Party's convention at Highland High School on Saturday, April 11, 2026.

Watch: Democrats debate on television in race for Utah’s new, blue congressional district

By Jeff Parrott | May 28, 2026, 3:37 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Voters at the Utah County polling station in Provo on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.

Why do you vote? Let us know what issues matter the most in 2026’s midterm elections.

By Emily Anderson Stern | Jeff Parrott | May 3, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Trevor Lee, R-Layton, says a few words at a Learning Event sponsored by The Utah Republicans at the University of Utah, on Friday, April 10, 2026.

Legislature ‘reviewing’ claims Trevor Lee altered checks, tried to ‘leverage’ his role to settle debts

By Emily Anderson Stern | Robert Gehrke | Jeff Parrott | April 16, 2026, 4:01 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | Associated Press file photo) President Donald Trump stands with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in a 2017 event at the Utah State Capitol. Pundits are floating Lee's name as a potential successor to Attorney General Pam Bondi, whom Trump fired on Thursday.

Could Mike Lee be Trump’s next attorney general? ‘Pod Save America’ host says ‘God help us.’

By Jeff Parrott | April 3, 2026, 6:48 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake City skyline on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025.

The Forest Service is moving its federal HQ to Salt Lake City. Here’s why.

By Jeff Parrott | Leia Larsen | April 1, 2026, 12:27 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Supporters of the Better Boundaries Ballot Initiative gather at the Utah Capitol celebrate a Utah Supreme Court ruling that the Legislature overstepped its authority when it rewrote a 2018 voter-approved ballot initiative in drawing new congressional districts on Thursday, July 11, 2024.

Watch: Salt Lake Tribune journalists answer your questions about Utah GOP’s effort to repeal Proposition 4

By Jeff Parrott | February 26, 2026, 12:25 a.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A sign at the site of signature gathering to repeal Prop 4 at Linda Vista Park in Syracuse on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.

Prop 4: When Utahns will know if GOP’s signature-gathering effort was a success

By Jeff Parrott | February 18, 2026, 1:22 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Olympus High Students walk out of school in Holladay to protest ICE, on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026.

‘We want change’: Utah students organize school walkouts to protest ICE

By Carmen Nesbitt | Jeff Parrott | Palak Jayswal | February 7, 2026, 12:00 a.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during a news conference on the 2027 fiscal budget at Kearns Library in Kearns on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025.

‘We must ... keep building’: See what Gox. Cox wants for Utahns in his new budget proposal

By Addy Baird | Jeff Parrott | December 4, 2025, 6:16 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, left, and House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, hold a news conference at the Utah Capitol to announce their plan to appeal the new congressional district map chosen by Judge Dianna Gibson to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025.

‘Not a turf war’: GOP lawmakers say they will appeal Utah’s new congressional map to the Supreme Court

By Robert Gehrke | Emily Anderson Stern | Jeff Parrott | November 25, 2025, 9:09 p.m.

(Eric Lee | The New York Times) Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, questions Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025.

Sen. John Curtis to House Speaker Mike Johnson: ‘I love you ... but it’s time to get back to work’

By Jeff Parrott | October 31, 2025, 8:03 p.m.

(Jeff Parrott) Witnesses look toward the Old Main building on the Logan campus of Utah State University after a small explosion was heard around 3:15 p.m., Sept. 30, 2025. Officials evacuated the building and detonated a suspicious package out of an abundance of caution, a university spokesperson said.

Utah State campus ‘safe’: Suspicious package detonated before nearby Turning Point USA event

By Courtney Tanner | Jeff Parrott | October 1, 2025, 3:26 a.m.

(Julie J, @Malkowski6April via AP) Flames and smoke rise from a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, about 50 miles north of Detroit, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025.

Death toll rises to five in shooting and fiery attack on an LDS church in Michigan

By Jeff Parrott | Tamarra Kemsley | September 29, 2025, 1:43 a.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox, right, declared Sept. 9, 2024, “President Russell M. Nelson Day” in Utah. Cox and his wife, Abby, shared the news with President Russell M. Nelson in the Church Administration Building on Temple Square on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. The church president died Sept. 27, 2025.

‘He will be greatly missed’: Utah leaders react to the death of LDS President Russell M. Nelson

By Jeff Parrott | Sean P. Means | September 28, 2025, 8:22 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A helicopter flyover during Utah National Guard Governor's Day at Camp Williams in 2023. Top Utah brass have not been invited to the military meeting the defense secretary.

Utah National Guard generals not invited to Hegseth’s impromptu meeting of top military brass

By Jeff Parrott | September 27, 2025, 10:30 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Over 100 people spoke in opposition to the Utah Legislature's Redistricting Committee's only public hearing for the map proposals, Capitol's House Building, Room 30, Nov. 8, 2021. A new committee will meet Monday morning.

Utah redistricting: See the new congressional districts proposed by lawmakers

By Robert Gehrke | Jeff Parrott | September 21, 2025, 10:26 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) State Auditor Tina Cannon speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Salt Lake City, Friday, March 7, 2025, regarding SB143, which would remove the auditor’s office from the main Capitol building.

Utah auditor says Senate president is — again — moving to remove her from her Capitol office

By Emily Anderson Stern | Jeff Parrott | September 16, 2025, 1:24 a.m.