Activists protest Rio water, which is still filthy despite Olympic promises
Rio de Janeiro • Environmental activists sailed across Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay on Saturday to protest pollution in the city’s waterways and broken promises to clean them up around the 2016...
View ArticleCanada goalkeeper Labbe candid about her depression
When Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe returned home from the Rio Olympics last summer, everyone wanted to see her bronze medal. It became a constant refrain: Where’s the medal? Can I see the medal?...
View ArticleGehrke: As long as Teflon Trump drives the partisan divide, his popularity in...
It would be an understatement to say that, six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, Margaret Ernstrom doesn’t like what she’s seeing.“He behaves like a teenager who needs to have his phone taken...
View ArticleOp-ed: Rooftop Solar Decision Will Affect All Utahns
“The times are a-changing,” and so are utility rates nationwide, especially for renewable energy. But all electricity ratepayers have a stake in upcoming regulatory decisions, including the rooftop...
View ArticleUtah photos of the week, July 30-August 5
Here's a look at the past week in Utah through photographs by Tribune photographers. Keep up with our photographers by following The Salt Lake Tribune on Instagram.
View ArticleBody of missing West Bountiful man found
Friends of a missing West Bountiful man found his body in Tooele County on Saturday morning. The search party found John Darrell Page just after 9:20 a.m. on a rocky slope in the Lakeside Mountains,...
View ArticleVisit by Dynamo a chance for RSL to erase bad memories
Sandy • The Houston Dynamo’s name unearths bad memories for Real Salt Lake.The last time RSL faced the Dynamo, it lost 5-1 in a dark stretch of the season. So when Houston arrived at Rio Tinto Stadium...
View ArticleOp-ed: Children need an opportunity to grow
Nothing is more important to me than making sure all children become healthy, self-sufficient contributors to society.As a Utahn, I want our kids to have an opportunity to grow up in stable, loving...
View ArticleUtah teen dies during Boy Scout camping trip
A teenager from Salem died Saturday during a Boy Scout camping trip in the High Uintas.The troop had been camped in the Chain Lakes area in Krebs Basin on Thursday when Douglas Jeffrey Julian, 17, told...
View ArticleSalt Lake Bees fall to Colorado Springs 8-1 for third straight loss
Following a script eerily similar to Friday’s contest, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox roughed up Bees starting pitcher Luis Diaz early, scoring three runs on four hits during the first two innings...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake unable to break down Dynamo, settle for home draw
Sandy • It was hard for Real Salt Lake to be excited about its possession statistics when its final match of a three-game homestand ended in a scoreless draw.Real Salt Lake extended its unbeaten streak...
View ArticleLaDainian Tomlinson steals the show at Hall of Fame ceremony
Canton, Ohio • As he so often did on the field, LaDainian Tomlinson stole the show.With a powerful speech calling for “Team America” to be a place for inclusion and opportunity, the great running back...
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When a mining disaster struck Crandall Canyon 10 years ago, women held their...
Huntington • Ten years ago Sunday, Hilary Gordon had been mayor of this small coal-country town for just two weeks when the Crandall Canyon mine’s walls blew in.Six miners were left missing behind...
View ArticleCommentary: It’s time to close the Hogle Zoo. Permanently.
The London Zoo was probably the first zoo opened to the public, in 1847, the same time Brigham Young arrived in our valley.At that time, a zoo made sense. People could barely imagine many wild animals....
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Jennifer Rubin: Mueller's grand juries are a key milestone in Trump...
Commentators who assert revelation of a grand jury in federal court in Washington to investigate possible criminal wrong-doing is no big deal have a point. Technically, this is just one more step in...
View ArticleCommentary: Climate change places life in the West in danger
This summer, Salt Lake City has already suffered a dozen days over 100 degrees with August still to come. This spate of hot, stagnant air has left us breathing ozone and fine soot that are twice the...
View ArticleCommentary: All taxpayers should be treated equally
We’ve all experienced the annoyance of a single mosquito bite, but can you imagine 29 mosquitoes biting you at the same time? You don’t even know where to start swatting.That’s what it used to be like...
View ArticleCommentary: Carbon threatens our state’s economy
The recent Rocky Mountain Power proposal to increase net-metering fees on its solar customers is a drastic step in the wrong direction. People in Utah who are investing in solar are doing their part...
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George F. Will: The GOP's Southern Gothic page-turner
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the current primary campaign to pick the...
View ArticleCommentary: Medical cannabis opponents have irrational position
Utahns have now become well-versed in the Legislature’s message to patients: Use opiates and risk death, or use medical cannabis and risk jail time, fines, or losing your children to state custody.Sick...
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