Bees rout Las Vegas 11-2 to snap three-game skid
The Salt Lake Bees ended a three-game losing streak, routing the host Las Vegas 51s, 11-2, on Monday night.The Bees jumped out to a 2-0lead in the first inning on RBI singles by Ramon Flores and David...
View Article‘The moon made the sun smile’ – Utah kids amazed by solar eclipse on first...
As Lisa DeFrance escorted her fourth-graders out to the Meadowlark Elementary School fields Monday morning to watch the Great American Solar Eclipse, many of her students asked what time it was.It was...
View ArticleEclipse creates community at Wheeler Farm: 'We're all experiencing something...
Murray • They came for the eclipse — but they really loved staying for the instant community it created at Wheeler Historic Farm. Watchers shared safety glasses, telescopes, other viewing devices and a...
View ArticleRyan says Trump "messed up" but opposes censure
Madison, Wis. • U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday he will not support a resolution to censure President Donald Trump over his comments following the white supremacist march in Virginia, even...
View ArticleHalf of Utah’s 10 largest colleges under federal investigation for sexual...
Utah Valley University now is under federal investigation for its handling of a sexual assault complaint — the fifth of Utah’s 10 higher education institutions to find itself under the microscope for...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: State auditor should investigate closed commission meetings
Can a county commission in Utah legally hold a private meeting with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior?No, but it happened with two county commissions in May.The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has...
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Albert R. Hunt: This president can't be the healer-in-chief
President Bill Clinton went to Oklahoma City after a terrorist bombed the federal office building there in 1995. President George W. Bush lifted a bullhorn at the ruins of the World Trade Center on...
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Deer Valley, but not Solitude, acquired by big new ski company
Deer Valley Resort shocked Utah’s ski industry Monday, announcing its sale for an undisclosed price to a new ski company that has grown so much this year it’s now viewed as a rival to kingpin Vail...
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Funeral for Utah National Guardsman who died in Afghanistan set for Saturday
Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler will be buried Saturday in his hometown of Monticello, his family announced Monday. Butler, a soldier in Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group of the Utah...
View ArticleBYU football: Kalani Sitake calls report of LB Francis Bernard's departure...
Provo • The confusing saga of troubled BYU linebacker Francis Bernard and his future plans took more twists and turns on Monday, as defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki and head coach Kalani Sitake gave...
View ArticleBYU women’s soccer: No. 8 Cougars battle Ohio State to a scoreless tie
Provo • It wasn’t the way the BYU women’s soccer team wanted its first game at renovated South Field to go, but it probably wasn’t the worst thing that will happen to coach Jennifer Rockwood’s young...
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Ann Cannon: The tale of a Tinkerbell with a taste for tomatoes
Dear Tinkerbell,Just so you know, I’m lying in wait for you. Right now. Behind the lilac bush. Early in the morning. So early, in fact, that dawn is barely cracking. Or whatever it is that dawn does...
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Been pitched tires in central and southern Utah? Even a legislator has a story
Interstate 15 in central and southern Utah can be a long way from someone’s home, and not the place where someone wants a flat tire. So if someone approaches you at a gas station and says you are in...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Cosmic dragon foiled, sun comes out again to bake state
The eclipse is over. Once again, the sun-eating dragon of ancient lore was foiled, and the more contemporary predictions of the End of Days fell as flat as those latter-day seers prophet bona...
View ArticleCoal CEO expected Trump help, but administration said no
Washington — The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump goes against his ‘original instinct,’ plans to send more...
Trump goes against his ‘original instinct,’ plans to send more troops to Afghanistan. Despite program’s uncertainty, Utahns celebrate five years of DACA. Former Utah guv says letting Obamacare fail...
View ArticleCivil War lessons often depend on where the classroom is
Austin, Texas — The Civil War lessons taught to American students often depend on where the classroom is, with schools presenting accounts of the conflict that vary from state to state and even...
View ArticleIrish church aims to end stigma for the children of Catholic priests
Vatican City • Bishops in Ireland have created detailed guidelines to address an issue the Roman Catholic Church has tried to keep under wraps for centuries: the plight of children born to Catholic...
View ArticleUtah Hike of the Week: Ontario Trail at Deer Valley
Ontario Trail is a great intro-to-the-Wasatch hike that’s pretty easy if you have $20 for a lift ticket at Deer Valley Resort. Ride the ski lifts 2,200 vertical feet from the resort base to the peak of...
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For a low-effort Utah mountain adventure, take a lift to the trailhead
As the Sterling Express lift rose out of Deer Valley’s Silver Lake Village, I felt like a bit of a slacker. Lift-served hiking can’t really be hiking, right? No exertion, no wayfinding, no bribing my...
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