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Salt Lake City, Utah
No, St. George is not named after George Washington. Nor is it named in honor of former LDS Church President George Albert Smith. Rather, that distinction falls to an earlier George Albert Smith, a colorful apostle who never actually lived in the southern Utah city.
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U.S. Senator John Curtis cited the recently criticized business dealings of Donald Trump Jr. in a demand Tuesday to investigate the use of presidential relationships to benefit family members.
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Salt Lake City's whimsical cat park has been redone with a fresh playground.
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Tribune readers have lots of ideas for that full block of downtown parking in Salt Lake City.
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Gov. Spencer Cox Cox promises a “whole-of-government approach to transforming how our state prevents and treats addiction, mental illness and how we support long-term recovery.”
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A Trump administration policy that is being described as “stupid” was reportedly based in part on a 2022 proposal from Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.
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The University of Utah agreed to a $15,000 settlement with a fan who alleged she was racially discriminated against when she was ejected from a BYU-Utah basketball game.
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Utah State head coach Bronco Mendenhall provided an update on linebacker Harrison Taggart, who left the game against Utah in an ambulance.
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The reality television star hints that she will no longer be a part of the Hulu show.
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“I’ve seen literacy decline in my classrooms,” one Utah elementary school teacher writes in an op-ed. “We’re ignoring critical components of learning.”
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Opinion: How Flock became public enemy No. 1
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Opinion: It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true.
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DNA testing has upended some families by finding living relatives they never knew they had. Two LDS researchers want to study how people cope with such revelations.
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See why this Utah Jewish woman will be observing her faith's holiest day — Yom Kippur — alone in her apartment rather than in person at a synagogue.
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“I believe, based on the numbers, we should be much larger than we are,” said new UVU President Jon Anderson.
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