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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The downtown parking lot between West Temple and Main Street and 400 South and 500 South in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026.

From historic hotel to concert venue to huge parking lot — what might the future hold for this blank slate in downtown SLC?

By Tony Semerad | September 20, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Council Chair Alejandro Puy said someone went to his home uninvited and put up signs opposing license plate readers. Other council members reported similar incidents.

Salt Lake City Council members face intimidation at their doorsteps over Flock-like cameras

By Tony Semerad | September 17, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Hall. A new audit found Utah's capital is unable to cover debt on a massive sewage treatment plant project.

SLC can’t cover debt on an $850M-plus project almost no one sees, audit says. Property owners may need to pay up.

By Tony Semerad | September 17, 2026, 2:39 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Leaders at Salt Lake City Hall have paused a public debate about smaller homes in residential neighborhoods.

As public debate simmers, SLC hits pause on major change to housing strategy

By Tony Semerad | September 14, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A woman walks her dog along 600 East in Salt Lake City. The city is proposing to loosen rules surrounding the construction of smaller homes in existing neighborhoods.

Planning smaller homes for Salt Lake City is turning into a big battle

By Tony Semerad | September 7, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The historic Ford Building near Salt Lake City's Pioneer Park is pictured on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026.

Historic SLC building to be renovated for new corporate headquarters. See who’s moving in.

By Tony Semerad | September 5, 2026, 11:42 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. An appeals court has affirmed that a class-action lawsuit over the faith's tithing was filed too late.

Court dismisses another LDS tithing case. Is this the end for a whistleblower’s allegations?

By Tony Semerad | September 3, 2026, 12:01 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) An automatic license plate reader is pictured along 600 North and Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026.

They’re not Flock, but SLC’s license plate readers pose civil rights challenges of their own, key group says

By Tony Semerad | August 31, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Church Office Building in downtown Salt Lake City. The faith's publicly reported stock investment fund is getting close to a record high.

LDS Church’s stock portfolio is up by billions, but is its strategy losing money over time?

By Tony Semerad | August 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) An automatic license plate reader is pictured on Foothill Drive in Salt Lake City near Parleys Canyon on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.

As the world rages over Flock, SLC creates new rules for its own license plate readers. Here’s what they say.

By Tony Semerad | August 26, 2026, 2:41 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) City Hall in 2025. Salt Lake City is eyeing a major increase in its impact fees to pay for growth, the first in 27 years.

Developers in SLC have paid the same fees since Clinton was president. That may soon change.

By Tony Semerad | August 25, 2026, 3:10 a.m.

(Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency) Rendering of a restored version of the fire-damaged Whiskey Street Cocktails & Dining along Salt Lake City's Main Street, including a second story owners are proposing to add.

A year after massive fire, Whiskey Street on SLC’s Main Street nears restoration — with help from the city

By Tony Semerad | August 19, 2026, 4:04 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Residential housing in Salt Lake City is seen in 2021. City officials are cracking down on property owners violating short-term rental rules, including in residentially zoned areas where they are not allowed.

Airbnb sent a cease and desist letter to Salt Lake City. Here’s why.

By Andy Larsen | Tony Semerad | August 14, 2026, 4:15 p.m.

(Sasaki via Salt Lake City) Salt Lake City's latest designs for a park at the Fleet Block include an amphitheater, community gathering spots, play areas, 150 new trees and several structures for shade, as well as public artwork honoring the site's social justice themes and history.

SLC reveals plans for bringing new open space to this fast-growing neighborhood

By Tony Semerad | August 7, 2026, 2:45 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gilgal Sculpture Garden in Salt Lake City. Created by Thomas Battersby Child Jr. in the mid-20th century, this unique pocket garden celebrated its 25th anniversary in September and is now proposed for a local landmark designation.

How Salt Lake City wants to protect one of its strangest pockets from development

By Tony Semerad | August 2, 2026, 4:30 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Historic home at 630 S. 700 East near Trolly Square on Thursday, July 30, 2026.

In this booming SLC neighborhood, a key property owner wants to move a historic home — brick by brick

By Tony Semerad | August 6, 2026, 3:46 p.m.

(WATG) Rendering of a proposed condominium high-rise tentatively called Trolley House Residences, to be built adjacent to Salt Lake City's Trolley Square shopping and entertainment center near 700 East and 500 South.

Proposed SLC high-rise would include design elements from a historic church

By Tony Semerad | July 30, 2026, 4:13 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Apartments under construction along North Temple in Salt Lake City. That west-side corridor has seen some of the highest number of new dwellings sought under the city's two-year-old affordable housing incentives.

SLC’s major affordable housing incentives have landed 2 completed projects, but City Hall remains positive

By Tony Semerad | July 27, 2026, 8:18 p.m.

(Tony Semerad | The Salt Lake Tribune) Public works crews with South Salt Lake moved Tuesday to remove a series of gardens and trees behind homes along Parkway Avenue in Salt Lake City's Highland Park. The suburban city says it is securing a piece of property it owns behind the homes.

‘Loss for our community’ — A neighboring city tears out gardens in SLC

By Tony Semerad | July 24, 2026, 3:32 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Downtown Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 9, 2026. The city's center saw a year of growth in 2025 as it prepares for a decade of historic investment.

Downtown SLC is booming as it enters ‘most consequential decade’ in history. Here’s what’s next.

By Tony Semerad | July 20, 2026, 12:00 p.m.