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Carson City, Nev. • Farmers, environmentalists and small-town business owners gathered at the Hoover Dam on Thursday to call for a moratorium on building pipelines and dams along the Colorado River that they say would jeopardize the 40 million people who rely on it as a water source. They’re pushing for the moratoriums as parts…

A man died after he reportedly fell while climbing in the Bridal Veil Falls area of Provo Canyon. The man was found dead late Saturday night after the Utah County Sheriff’s office received a call just after 7 p.m. that he and a 9-year-old boy were missing, Utah County Sgt. Spencer Cannon said. The boy,…

Add Utah’s once-a-decade redrawing of political boundaries to the long list of things disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The viral outbreak set off a Rube Goldberg-esque sequence of events that started with the 2020 Census. Pandemic-related restrictions upended plans to count every person in the United States, especially reaching out to those who did not…

A week after a 19-year-old was arrested on allegations she committed a hate crime against a Garfield County Sheriff’s Office deputy, the sheriff has issued a statement in support of its officer. Sheriff James D. Perkins wrote that the deputy, Cree Carter, acted in a “proactive and compassionate manner” during a July 7 traffic stop,…

Wildlife officials have increased fishing limits at Utah fisheries in anticipation of low water levels due to severe drought conditions, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources announced Thursday. Utah anglers can now catch two more trout at all 57 community ponds in the state. Previously, the limit was two fish of any species. Now, fishers…

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The American Humanist Association announced Thursday that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci is its 2021 Humanist of the Year. Fauci is chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health since 1984. Fauci played a pivotal role in…

The former Salt Lake City school board member who resigned when he was faced with state charges of downloading child pornography and sexually assaulting a boy under the age of 14 is now facing additional federal charges. Joél-Léhi Organista, who was elected to the board last fall and resigned on June 4, has been indicted…

Salt Lake City firefighters were mopping up Monday morning from a major blaze at a six-story condominium building. Crews were called to one of three Incline Terrace buildings at 425 S. 1000 East about 2 a.m. and arrived to find flames shooting from the fourth and fifth floors. Some residents ran through the building, pounding…

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is the highest it has been since early…

Sundance, N.M. • A lone dog with sad eyes and no collar trotted up a dusty dirt road in a hardscrabble community near the southeast corner of the Navajo Nation. In a flash, a pack of other free-roaming, collarless dogs scurried up the same road. One lunged at the lone canine, unleashing a ferocious attack…

Provo • If you have visited Timpanogos Cave National Monument in the past 53 years, you have likely come in contact with Ranger Jay Allen, learning from and catching a love for the caves from him. Allen retired this spring after working as a guide at the cave every summer since he graduated from college.…

If you got slammed one way or another by COVID-19 and lapsed on your rent or house payment as a result, there is help. The government has deployed billions of dollars to prevent people like you from getting evicted in this pandemic, and a major chunk of that cash sits unspent — even as many…

New Town, N.D. • On oil well pads carved from the wheat fields around Lake Sakakawea, hundreds of pump jacks slowly bob to extract 100 million barrels of crude annually from a reservation shared by three Native American tribes. About half their 16,000 members live on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation atop one of the…

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. The Utah Department of Health reported that a woman aged between 15 and 24…

After issuing an Amber alert Saturday morning to find a teen girl who was apparently abducted, South Salt Lake police say they have found the girl and the suspect. Police issued the alert at 8:24 a.m. Saturday, to find the girl, 16 years old. She was described as white, with blonde hair, about 5-foot-4, and…

Soils in the La Sal Mountains near Moab, like other alpine areas across western United States, were already parched going into last winter’s below-average snow season. And when the spring thaw arrived, dry conditions led to reduced runoff and increased fire danger. It’s a pattern climate scientists have long predicted will intensify in the region…

A South Jordan software company reports that it is worth $3 billion, after a secondary investment of $500 million from several firms. Lucid, which specializes in visual collaboration software, announced Thursday that it had closed the $500 million investment. Some of the new investors include the firms Alkeon Capital, Tiger Global and Steadfast Capital Ventures.…