The world holds its breath on North Korea
Bedminster, N.J. • Calls for more intense diplomacy on North Korea vied Friday with threats of force, with little sense of what strategy would prevail in Washington or Pyongyang or which leader would...
View Article‘Operation Rio Grande’ leaders scrambling for drug treatment beds as police...
The much-anticipated but largely secret “Operation Rio Grande” law enforcement crackdown planned in downtown Salt Lake City may launch before its leaders have lined up many treatment beds for the...
View ArticleCommentary: Time to consider the peace option
Our president is threatening nuclear war against North Korea: ”North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has...
View ArticlePrep golf: Weber's Connor Howe shoots for rare state three-peat
Connor Howe’s best score in a competitive round of golf is 62. He shot it as a Weber High sophomore to set a state tournament record and win the first of his two state titles.He also shot the same...
View ArticleTrump isn’t ruling out ‘military option’ to deal with strife in Venezuela
President Donald Trump said Friday that he would not rule out a U.S. “military option” for dealing with ongoing strife in Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro has cracked down on nationwide...
View ArticleOwners walk away from debt-ridden, unsafe Utah coal mine
Helper • Nearly five years after it was closed amid a swamp of defaulted debt and safety violations, Carbon County’s Horizon coal mine remains dormant while state regulators and federal land managers...
View ArticleCatherine Rampell: Feel-good ideas that need a hardheaded examination
Washington • Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though, it’s largely ignoring other important...
View ArticleBelieve it: Americans finish historic 1-2 in steeplechase
London • Rolling on the ground, still gasping for breath, Courtney Frerichs hugged Emma Coburn and shouted into her ear: “Am I dreaming? Am I dreaming?”Nope. That really happened.The two Americans...
View Article‘I really hate that the institution I left my home for has this issue,’ black...
The University of Utah office tasked with promoting campus diversity on Friday condemned two racist flyers that were posted and pledged to continue working for social justice.The flyers were found at...
View ArticleJudge makes accused fraudster Koerber choose between attorneys
Facing jury selection in nine days, former real estate investment promoter Rick Koerber was given a choice by a federal judge — keep his publicly paid attorney or go with his former attorney who had...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Self-care is essential to creating white space in your life
This week a friend called me, asking how to navigate some difficult waters and spoke of the weariness she was experiencing, both physically and emotionally. As we visited, I asked her what brought her...
View ArticlePGA Championship turns into a track meet before dark
Charlotte, N.C. • Jason Day remembers hustling to finish rounds of golf in the dark as a kid. He just never thought he would be doing it on the 18th hole of a major championship.But the second round of...
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Human activity — racing included — is shrinking the Bonneville Salt Flats, U....
After nearly two years of researching on the Bonneville Salt Flats, University of Utah geologist Brenda Bowen says she’s increasingly convinced that the ecosystem is more sensitive to human...
View ArticleLetter: Silly, immature, senseless rules
Oftentimes, Utah overcompensates its rules and regulations when it comes to alcohol consumption (“Beer ban a sobering subplot for Utah ‘Book of Mormon’ fans,” The Tribune, Aug. 4). Why not utilize the...
View ArticleLetter: Do we even qualify as a civilized nation
We need to be reducing — with a goal of completely doing away with — nuclear weapons, not adding to them. Do we even qualify as a civilized nation? We could be and should be trying to save our...
View ArticleLetter: Beware the Koch influence on campus
I am disturbed to read that the University of Utah is accepting money from Koch Industries. Let’s get a few facts straight about Charles and David Koch.They inherited an oil empire from their father...
View ArticleLetter: Why I'll vote for Curtis
Hello National Horizon,Hello National Horizon,Thank you for helping me to decide whom to vote for in our area, the 3rd Congressional District of Utah. My decision was made by the four ads which have...
View ArticleLetter: Some safety tips for the eclipse
As we all know, a total solar eclipse will cross our continent on Aug. 21. It will show about 95 percent here in northern Utah about 10:30 a.m.Warnings from your friend here:1) Don’t look directly at...
View ArticleLetter: Hatch has been in Congress too long
Sen. Orrin Hatch needs to retire for a multitude of reasons. He is no longer the man who worked with Sen. Edward Kennedy to improve our country.Visual evidence is the video of him trying to answer a...
View ArticleFederer, Canadian teen Shapovalov reach semis in Montreal
Montreal • Roger Federer advanced to the semifinals of the Rogers Cup and was joined later Friday by Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov, who followed his upset of Rafael Nadal with another three-set...
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