How do you care for 200 baby goats? Salt Lake City’s refugee farm has an army...
A baby boom is underway at Salt Lake City’s East African Refugee Goat Project.About 100 kids have been born since mid-March on the scenic ranch 8 miles west of Salt Lake City International Airport. An...
View ArticleBaton Rouge police officers won't be charged in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
Prosecutors in Louisiana said Tuesday that the Baton Rouge police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling will not face criminal charges, a decision announced nearly two years after...
View ArticleMonson: Gordon Who? Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are the kings of this town
It was supposed to be the most anticipated game of the year.The Boston Celtics against the Utah Jazz at Vivint Smart Home Arena.And then, Gordon Hayward’s ankle bent in a way that hadn’t been seen...
View ArticleAlbert R. Hunt: Paul Ryan should be safe in November, but isn't
Randy Bryce is a Wisconsin ironworker who has badly lost two state legislative races. He’s now running for Congress against one of the country’s most powerful Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan, who...
View ArticleUtah man arrested in Arizona car crash that killed 3 women
Quartzsite, Ariz. • Authorities say a Utah man has been arrested in connection with a wrong-way crash in western Arizona that killed three California women in another vehicle.Arizona Department of...
View ArticleDecision to add citizenship question to census draws protest
Washington • The 2020 U.S. Census will include a question about citizenship status, a move that brought swift condemnation from Democrats, who said it would intimidate immigrants and discourage them...
View ArticleDerek Miller to take Lane Beattie’s place atop the Salt Lake Chamber
A familiar figure in Utah’s business community will be the newest leader of the 130-year-old Salt Lake Chamber.Derek Miller, who most recently was president and CEO of World Trade Center Utah after...
View ArticleOne in five Americans wants the Second Amendment to be repealed, national...
One consequence of the success of the National Rifle Association’s expansive gun-rights agenda — and its lobbying power in Congress — is that groups favoring more gun control have pared down their...
View ArticleCannon: What my friends want to hear at Mormon conference — it’s OK to be...
Mormons all over the world look forward to General Conference weekend — both as a break from the regular routine (pajama church) and as a source of inspiration. There’s also an element of mild suspense...
View ArticleWith hiring of Craig Smith as coach, Aggies basketball hopes to bring back...
Logan • When he was an assistant coach at Colorado State, scouting the rest of the Mountain West Conference, Craig Smith first took notice of Utah State basketball.“I loved watching them,” he said,...
View ArticlePoll: Trump is benefiting from his economic policies
Washington • A growing American economy and passage of a Republican tax overhaul appear to be helping President Donald Trump lift his approval ratings from historic lows, according to a new poll by The...
View ArticleAlexandra Petri: Shark Person (The Stormy Daniels Story in the style of ‘Cat...
Like many viewers (including my colleague Christine Emba), I was struck by Stormy Daniels’ remarks on “60 Minutes” that she wound up engaging in a sexual encounter with Donald Trump because “I had it...
View ArticleVideo: Car in Sardine Canyon hits Utah Highway Patrol trooper and throws him...
Dashcam footage from a Utah Highway Patrol trooper’s vehicle shows the officer on foot as he approaches a car that slid off the highway in Sardine Canyon, when he is suddenly hit from behind by another...
View ArticleYucky ducky? Study reveals bathtime toy’s dirty secret
Bern, Switzerland • Scientists now have the dirt on the rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bathtime toys are — as some parents have long suspected — a haven for nasty bugs.Swiss and American researchers...
View ArticleCatherine Rampell: Trump’s economic team needs to grow up — fast
Last week, for the 10-year anniversary of the Bear Stearns failure, Marketplace released an hourlong interview with the key economic policymakers involved: former Federal Reserve chairman Ben S....
View ArticleBYU will play ‘small ball’ to get more speed on defense this fall
Provo • BYU’s spring football practices this month have mostly been about the offense after Jeff Grimes was hired to replace Ty Detmer and made sweeping changes to the offensive staff and the Cougars’...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Family History
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, March 28, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Getting to the Bottom of...
View ArticleA bride-to-be sent an invitation to the wrong address. It came back with this...
Cassandra Warren was in a rush and feeling a little overwhelmed with her work and planning her upcoming 200-person wedding.As she was getting invitations for her June nuptials in the mail two weeks...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: The sliming of Parkland students shows the spreading stain...
Six months ago, the conservative radio host and blogger Erick Erickson wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times, inspiringly titled “How to Find Common Ground.”“We owe it to one another to disagree...
View ArticleRolly: Fake news tried to keep Utah kids away from march against gun violence
Someone tried a bit of trickery Saturday in an apparent attempt to lower the turnout for the march from West High to the Utah Capitol by mostly teenagers wanting something to be done about gun violence...
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