Prep football: Canyon View Falcons preview
Skyler Miller is eager to change the tone of the Canyon View football program in his first year at the helm.“There is a lot of negative out there, but we are choosing to take it in stride and changing...
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Hobby takes travelers looking for spots where 3 or more states touch
THOMPSON, Conn. • Brian Butler is a tripointer.The 63-year-old lives in Holliston, Massachusetts, about 20 miles from the Connecticut and Rhode Island borders. That’s where he picked up the unusual...
View ArticleUtah volleyball: Utes receive highest preseason Pac-12 ranking yet
Utah’s gradual rise in the Pac-12 is getting noticed.The University of Utah women’s volleyball team was picked fourth overall in Wednesday’s preseason Pac-12 coaches poll. That marks the highest...
View ArticleUtah's Mike Lee criticizes Trump's comments defending white supremacists
Sen. Mike Lee is the first of Utah’s congressional delegation to criticize President Donald Trump for defending white supremacists.“Carrying a Nazi flag or any other symbol of white supremacy is a...
View ArticleTraveling to see the total solar eclipse? Here is what you can expect.
Storee Powell planned on being one of the many Utahns heading north to witness the total solar eclipse on Monday.She and her husband would pack up their car and head to Shelley, Idaho, just south of...
View ArticleImagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds gets a boost for his LGBTQ fundraising concert...
Imagine Dragons’ frontman Dan Reynolds was busy putting together this month’s Orem concert to benefit at-risk LGBTQ youths when he got an offer from an unexpected source: the Mormon church.The...
View ArticlePrep football: Mountain View Bruins preview
Mountain View Bruins is using last season’s winless campaign as motivation.“They are very determined this year,” coach Tyler Anderson said.The Bruins return multiple starters on defense and offense,...
View ArticlePrep football: Region 9 breakdown
The teams (Last season’s record)Canyon View (4-7) • Season previewCedar City (4-6) • Season preview coming soonDesert Hills (10-2) • Season previewDixie (7-4) • Season previewHurricane (3-7) • Season...
View ArticlePrep football: Region 10 breakdown
The teamsMountain View (0-10) • Season previewOrem (5-7) • Season previewPayson (1-10) • Season preview coming soonSalem Hills (6-5) • Season preview coming soonSpanish Fork (4-6) • Season preview...
View ArticleState submits small-scale Medicaid expansion plan to feds — again
The fate of Utah’s Medicaid expansion plan extending coverage to about 6,000 of the state’s neediest childless adults is now in the hands of the Trump administration.Utah officials submitted the plan,...
View ArticleOfficials break ground at site of new prison, which is set for completion in...
It’s one of the few times shoveling will be allowed at the new prison.There also were a couple jokes, including one from Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, about northwest Salt Lake City getting a new planned,...
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One dead, five injured in apparent head-on crash on Bonneville Speedway...
Bonneville Speedway • One person was killed and five injured — all of whom were said to be members of support crews for racing drivers — in an apparent head-on crash involving a pickup truck and a mini...
View ArticleMonsignor Robert Servatius, longtime Sandy parish priest known for his...
Funeral rites will be held Thursday for Monsignor Robert R. Servatius, a former longtime pastor of Sandy’s Roman Catholic parish and ex-editor of the Intermountain Catholic newspaper.Servatius, who...
View ArticleSecond cancer institute study delaying negotiations between U., Huntsman family
University of Utah administrators say the April controversy involving the Huntsman Cancer Institute still plagues the school as it searches for a new president, but they have yet to enter into...
View ArticlePrep football: Salem Hills Skyhawks preview
Tragedy hit the Salem Hills Skyhawks when rising senior lineman Doug Julian died of altitude sickness Aug. 5 while on a scouting trip in the Uintas.“Doug was a huge part what we were trying to do here...
View ArticlePrep football: Payson Lions preview
Payson only had three returning starters on offense and defense last season. That inexperience helped lead to a 1-9 finish.“We might not have a Division I player being recruited right now, but I think...
View ArticlePrep football: Spanish Fork Dons preview
Preston Parrish returns for his second season lead Spanish Fork, and the Dons bring back experience at some key spots on offense.The Dons likely will be in contention for a playoff spot out of the...
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Three Mormon-rooted religions move past conflicts in tug of war over sacred...
Independence, Mo. • There is an open patch of grass at the intersection of River Boulevard and Walnut Street in this Kansas City suburb. It looks like a vacant lot — no structures, no landscaping, no...
View ArticleOpening 300 new jail beds leads to last-minute shuffling, changes in lead-up...
The preparations ahead of Operation Rio Grande — which requires more jail space in Salt Lake County — underwent minute-by-minute changes Thursday as state and county officials negotiated the lead-up to...
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Salt Lake County now has extra jail beds to lock up suspects in mysterious...
One of the missing pieces leaders have been awaiting to launch an all-hands-on-deck assault on lawlessness in downtown Salt Lake City is now in place: extra jail beds to free up space in the crowded...
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