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A Salt Lake County Council member is pressing for a new policy barring men from using women’s locker rooms at county recreation facilities. Dea Theodore, a conservative Republican from Sandy, announced her effort in between media appearances and public testimony Tuesday by county resident and GOP activist Candace Duncan, who asserted she had been confronted by “biological males” twice in women’s l...

Bryce Canyon has the second-most Instagram posts per square mile out of all the National Parks, according to a new study.

To save travelers from paying more for food, drinks and other items once they pass through security, Salt Lake City International Airport instituted a policy to bar vendors from charging more than they do out on the street. According to an airport shopping excursion of sorts by The Salt Lake Tribune, the pricing policy seems to be working. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/07/04/little-k...

Under an end-of-year tradition n the Alpine School District, kids could leave this Utah school after two hours of class. One student, his parents said they later learned, used the unsupervised time in May 2022 to have sex with his girlfriend — during school hours, in the parking lot of the Lehi campus. The Latter-day Saint couple, whose faith prohibits premarital sex, sued the district and some ad...

Legal experts recommend getting an application in ASAP. Fees to expunge a criminal record in Utah will cost more than four times higher beginning July 1.

Public records show that a Department of Government Operations employee ‘got in trouble’ for posting an LGBTQ+ Pride image on the agency’s official social media pages. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/06/27/utah-state-agency-shared-an-lgbtq

This Saturday marks the one year anniversary of Roe V Wade being overturned. So where does Utah currently stand when it comes to abortion access?

Landlords across the state filed more than 2,600 eviction cases in the first four months of 2023. That’s 40% more than the first quarter of 2022 and more than double the number of eviction lawsuits filed in the first four months of 2021.

Lawmakers say pushing back Utah’s 2023 municipal election scheduled to coincide with the 2nd Congressional District race will prevent voter confusion and be less expensive for the state.

As Planned Parenthood Association of Utah fights a blocked near-ban on abortion and a recently passed abortion clinic ban in Utah courts, its only facility that offers abortions outside Salt Lake County “temporarily” closed in March, providing no explanation to patients. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/06/14/utahs-only-abortion-clinic-outside/

Utah is one of 18 states in the nation with an established all-payer claim database (ABCD). Essentially, every bill sent to a health care insurer is logged into one massive database, which then researchers can work with to answer all sorts of healthcare questions: which procedures are being done most often, with medications are given and when, how much each procedure costs, which hospitals and doc...

After extensive forensic comparisons, however, Curtis Weber, an independent Latter-day Saint researcher in Utah, now believes that the daguerreotype found in a locket by a Smith descendant, Daniel Larsen, is indeed a photo of the man who proclaimed that he saw God and Jesus in a New York woods as a boy and launched a global religious movement. “I always believed it was him,” says the owner of the...

After a yearlong wait, Utah’s Hogle Zoo successfully captured the birth of a new 98-pound male zebra on camera. Ziva, a 10-year-old Hartmann’s mountain zebra, delivered the baby zebra — also called a foal — at approximately 7:11 p.m. on June 2. Within the first hour of his birth, the foal nursed, stood on his own and began walking. “He was super active right off the bat, super energetic and doing...

This past Monday, 38 inmates at Utah State Prison celebrated getting their high school diplomas through the South Park Academy which is now run by the Salt Lake City School District. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/06/06/these-utah-state-prison-inmates

Downtown Salt Lake City may be forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic, with its future now less about workdays and more about nightlife. Three-plus years after the U.S. onset of COVID-19, about a third fewer workers are commuting each weekday to a workplace in the central business district, compared to late 2019. As the pattern persists, effects of remote work and all those empty cubicles are...

The spray-painted sunglasses that would eventually become Pit Vipers were once traded for beers and rides to the slopes. Now an established brand popular among skiers and speed demons, the Salt Lake City company "is serious about taking things less seriously." Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2023/06/05/salt-lake-city-sunglasses-brand/

The needs of senior gays and lesbians are particularly acute as they get older. While many straight seniors have children and other relatives to help care for them, that’s not true for many of the older members of the queer community. Today's Daily Buzz is a look at some of the resources that do help people in this group. Silver Pride Senior Drop-In: https://utahpridecenter.org/calendar/silver-pri...

Utah NHL fans could have their dream turn into a reality. There’s about a one in six chance that Salt Lake City is the next location for the Arizona Coyotes. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2023/05/30/will-arizona-coyotes-move-utah-why/

Multiple sources have confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune that U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart plans to resign, citing ongoing health issues with his wife. First elected by Utahns in 2012, Stewart is serving his sixth term in Congress. But what happens when a congressman resigns? There will be a special election. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/05/30/what-happens-us-rep-chris-stewarts/

Some are surprised by the designation, but data indicates Salt Lake City is pretty gay, even if LGBTQ people say there’s room for improvement in Utah's capital.

The Utah Supreme Court upheld a law that limits access to some of Utah’s rivers and streams, a ruling that impacts anglers and those who want to float many of Utah’s waterways.

Salt Lake City is considering an e-bike rebate similar to one offered in Denver.y Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s 2024 budget request includes $230,000 for an air quality incentives program that could, in part, provide rebates for electric lawn care equipment, air purifiers or filters and electric bikes. However, e-bike incentives are not beloved by all, including Sen. Mitt Romney.

California, Arizona and Nevada have agreed to use less Colorado River water in the next few years. And while the deal doesn’t apply to the Upper Basin states like Utah, it doesn’t mean Utahns won’t feel any impact. The Colorado River supports around 40 million people living in seven Western states, tribal reservations and Mexico, but its volume has dropped by one-third in recent years. About half...

For many, Interstate 15′s expansion through northern Salt Lake and southern Davis counties is a certainty. After all, state money has been identified for the project and an environmental impact statement is due out this fall. So these people choose a place at the table to form, rather than fight, the road. Others, especially those who may be displaced or affected by a bigger highway, aren’t about...

Dorothy Durrant has operated a farmers market on her property north of Utah Lake since at least 2020. The lot between Center Street and Country Lane, off a spur called Farmers Market Street, is home to her Lehi Farmers Market on Fridays and Saturdays. It has also been a recreational vehicle park, petting zoo and a launch site for hot air balloon and helicopter rides, with food trucks, tractor ride...