News across Salt Lake County

Letter: In opposing Idaho’s abortion measure, the LDS Church says it weighs in on issues that have ‘significant moral consequences.’ Why, then, does it stay mum on so many others?
Letter: Cutting USAID funding. The U.S. support of genocide in Gaza. Killing thousands of civilians in Iran. These are all issues of “significant moral consequence,” LDS Church leaders. Why do you only speak on abortion?

Letter: Widening Emigration Canyon — like numerous perplexing projects in and around Salt Lake City — is a bad idea
Letter: Salt Lake City needs to stop approvals of new apartment and condominium projects that take our water and increase our traffic.

An LDS church will be torn down for the Bangerter Highway project. Before that happens, members dug up a piece of its past.
A 1980 time capsule was supposed to stay buried until 2030. But with the LDS church set to be torn down for the Bangerter Highway project, members dug it up early.

Opinion: Behold the literary world’s DEI checklist
Opinion: Behold the literary world’s DEI checklist

The Delta Center’s new upper-bowl seats got their first real test. Here’s what Mammoth fans thought.
Utah Mammoth fans got their first look at the Delta Center’s renovated upper bowl Saturday. Here’s what they thought of the new hockey sightlines.

Opinion: These midterm races matter the most. They’re discussed the least.
Opinion: These midterm races matter the most. They’re discussed the least.

Letter: Three heroes worth honoring if our democracy survives
Letter: Three heroes worth honoring if our democracy survives

This week from Bagley: Sen. John Curtis’ tight spot, Trump and Xi, secret lives of LDS Church leaders
This week's cartoons from The Salt Lake Tribune's Pat Baglye.

An SLC worker accidentally poisoned 200 trees at the city’s front door. Two years on, a greener future is taking root.
An herbicide mix-up killed 200 trees on a major Salt Lake City street, but a new landscape will be in place just in time for one of the largest events in Utah's history.

‘Watch them die’: Bird flu is ravaging a Utah mink farm, killing 80% of the herd. State agriculture officials have no clear plan.
It’s the first documented outbreak of bird flu in captive mink in the U.S., and an advocacy group is raising concerns about Utah’s response.

How Wayshawn Parker battled through ‘extracurricular’ late hits to power Utah football over Iowa State
Wayshawn Parker had 239 total yards and three touchdowns as No. 15 Utah beat Iowa State 31-17 Saturday in Ames.

Gordon Monson: Go ahead and gripe a little. The psalmists did. God won’t mind.
The Good Book is full of laments — prophets and people complaining to God, notes Tribune columnist Gordon Monson. So maybe it's OK to murmur, grouse and gripe from time to time.