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FILE - In this May 25, 2017 file photo, a class of eighth-grade students and their chaperones sit in a meadow at Yosemite National Park, California. (AP Photo/Scott Smith, File)

Trump wants to give part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer

By Anna Kramer | Aug. 30, 2026, 4:29 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during a news conference announcing Mike Menssen and 5th District Judge Matthew Bell as his appointees for the Utah Supreme Court at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026.

Gov. Cox completes overhaul of Utah Supreme Court with last two nominees

By Robert Gehrke | Aug. 29, 2026, 1:57 a.m.

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

What do you care about? Tell us what to ask candidates ahead of November’s elections.

By Emily Anderson Stern | Aug. 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cattle graze during a media tour to see the use of cattle to combat invasive phragmites at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Syracuse on July 16, 2024.

Utah cattle ranchers — and Sen. John Curtis — beef with Trump over import plan

By Addy Baird | Aug. 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

FILE - Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco on March 22, 2023. TikTok and Facebook owner Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

What Utah will get from massive settlement over social media addiction claims

By Jeff Parrott | Megan Banta | Aug. 26, 2026, 5:01 p.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.

‘We will prevail’: Critics threatened by Utah Senate president say they’re ready for a legal battle

By Robert Gehrke | Aug. 26, 2026, 6:44 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cattle walk by during a media tour to see the use of cattle to combat invasive phragmites at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Syracuse on July 16, 2024.

‘He is wrong’: Ranchers are ‘disappointed’ in Donald Trump’s beef import plan

By Angie Orellana Hernandez | Aug. 25, 2026, 2:57 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A voter drops off two ballots at a ballot drop box at the Davis Conference Center in Layton on Monday, June 22, 2026.

Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions can stand, Supreme Court rules. Here’s what that means for Utah.

By Emily Anderson Stern | Aug. 25, 2026, 5:12 p.m.

(Nam Y. Huh | AP) Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom greets a friend before a WNBA basketball game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, in Chicago.

Enes Kanter was tossed from a WNBA game. Mike Lee says the former Jazz player wasn’t ‘‘harassing’ anyone.’

By Addy Baird | Aug. 25, 2026, 3:20 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A voter drops off a ballot at a ballot drop box at the Davis Conference Center in Layton on Monday, June 22, 2026.

What big races are on Utahns’ ballots in the 2026 midterm elections?

By Emily Anderson Stern | Addy Baird | Robert Gehrke