Kragthorpe: Is BYU's football season beyond repair? Maybe not — but time is...
Well into the early hours of Sunday at LaVell Edwards Stadium, seven crew members were stomping around the field, replacing divots and making other repairs to the grass.The work started soon after...
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Jennifer Rubin: What Republicans should have learned (other than not to trust...
Republicans learned the hard way this week that the tactic of using the debt ceiling to extract further spending cuts is a losing one. And now, thanks to President Donald Trump, they may lose it...
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Gehrke: Morning of 9/11 changed the world, setting us on a path of indefinite...
I was due on Capitol Hill by 10 a.m. for a hearing on security preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympics. So, as we’d done numerous times, we strapped our 6-month-old daughter, Georgia, into the car...
View ArticleCache Humane Society takes in dogs, helps Texas shelters
Logan • Several animal shelters in Utah including the Cache Humane Society have taken in pets from Texas to make sure animal shelters there have room for pets lost or left behind in Hurricane...
View ArticleHungary says Ukraine's new school law hurts minority rights
Budapest, Hungary • Ukraine has “stabbed Hungary in the back” with a new education law that “drastically” limits the rights of ethnic minorities to study in their mother tongue, Hungary’s foreign...
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Real Salt Lake relying heavily on homegrown talent as it rebuilds itself into...
A header from 16-year-old Justen Glad floats over the goalie’s outstretched hands in Houston, giving the RSL-Arizona academy team a late lead in the 2013 U.S. Developmental Academy championship game....
View ArticleBipartisan Policy Center: Five bipartisan steps to fix health care
At a meeting in California this spring, we sat down with a number of insurance company chief executives who are major participants in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. They asked us to carry back a...
View ArticleSettlement would let Rocky Mountain Power charge nonsolar customers to pay...
Utah’s Rocky Mountain Power customers could end up paying more directly for power generated by their neighbors’ solar panels under the terms of the company’s recent settlement with the solar...
View ArticleTexas pets prepped for adoption in Utah after hurricane
Dozens of homeless dogs and cats brought to Salt Lake City from Texas because of Hurricane Harvey will be spayed and neutered Sunday as animal advocates prepare them for local adoption.The Community...
View ArticleFrench hurricane rescues raise anger, racial questions
Paris • Some black and mixed-race residents of the hurricane-devastated French territory of St. Martin have expressed anger at a perception that white tourists were given priority during the evacuation...
View ArticleSorry, Grandma, I’m tweaking your spaghetti and meatballs
Spaghetti and meatballs was the classic dish I ate at Grandma’s house growing up: She had her all-day recipe that filled her creaky house with heady aromas that built anticipation as meatballs simmered...
View ArticleUtah students’ SAGE test scores dropped in all subjects last year
Fewer students across Utah met grade-level standards, according to the latest round of SAGE scores — the first dip in results since the state proficiency test’s inception four years ago. Also, more...
View ArticleAfter rating students’ decency with ‘outrageous’ drugs and sex quiz, Utah...
Are you “as pure as Ivory soap” or “hopelessly condemned”?A questionnaire given to students at Roy High School asks respondents about their sexual histories and drug and alcohol use — and then provides...
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BYU football: Tanner Mangum’s gimpy left ankle is struggling Cougars’ latest...
Provo • Only three of the 127 teams in major college football have worse offenses, in terms of scoring and total yards, than BYU through the first few weeks of the season. Things could get even more...
View ArticleU.N. rights chief: Rohingya seemingly face ‘ethnic cleansing’
Geneva • The U.N. human rights chief said Monday that the violence and injustice faced by the ethnic Rohingya minority in Myanmar, where U.N. rights investigators have been barred from entering, “seems...
View ArticleMitt Romney is considering a Senate run if Orrin Hatch retires, and a new...
Washington • Mitt Romney would handily beat Democrat Jenny Wilson if the two competed for the Senate seat from Utah next year, though Wilson would beat Sen. Orrin Hatch if he runs again, a new poll...
View ArticleUtah Attorney General Sean Reyes wants to protect us from ourselves and keep...
A recent Salt Lake Tribune/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows that, by a 61 percent to 22 percent margin, Utah voters favor having an independent commission redraw political boundaries to undo...
View ArticleUtah football: Ute running back Troy McCormick moves up the depth chart
Utah senior running back Troy McCormick went into preseason slated to transition to wide receiver, but he has since moved back to the backfield, and he figures to play a bigger role in the running...
View ArticleAnn Cannon: Dear long, hot summer, and other ‘tiny letters’ to the good and...
So, here it is. Another edition of “Tiny Letters.” Thanks to my good friend Lisa Bickmore for the inspiration.Dear Summer of 2017,You know you’re my favorite season hands down, but even I’ll admit you...
View ArticlePope Francis blasts climate change doubters, cites moral duty to act
Aboard the Papal Plane • Pope Francis has sharply criticized climate change doubters, saying history will judge those who failed to take the necessary decisions to curb heat-trapping emissions blamed...
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