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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Haviar Tuitama-Hafoka sings as the Malialole Dance and Entertainment group performs at a Glendale studio on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

With every step, this Utah troupe keeps Polynesian culture alive, but a potential threat looms

By Alixel Cabrera | June 25, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Children play at Bingham Creek Regional Park in South Jordan on Thursday, June 22, 2023.

New park springs to life. It will become the largest in Salt Lake County.

By Alixel Cabrera | June 23, 2023, 12:07 p.m.

(Salt Lake City International Airport) A rendering of a new Cotopaxi location that will open as part of an expansion of the airport's B gates.

Where can you grab some grub when SLC airport expands the B gates?

By Blake Apgar | June 23, 2023, 3:34 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Homeowners along 1300 South between Foothill Drive and 1700 East have placed yard signs that call for opposing a plan to install speed bumps, Thursday, June 15, 2023.

Nope, it’s not gas stations or high-density housing that caused this SLC neighborhood squabble

By Blake Apgar | June 20, 2023, 2:43 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bangerter Highway at 4100 South on Thursday, June 15, 2023. The Utah Department of Transportation is planning a construction project to turn the highway into a freeway.

UDOT project would finish converting Bangerter Highway into a freeway. It would also wipe out hundreds of homes.

By Alixel Cabrera | June 18, 2023, 6:46 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man experiencing homelessness pulls his belongings over the railroad tracks near 800 West and South Temple on Thursday, June 8, 2023. Salt Lake City's fiscal 2024 budget includes funding for sanctioned homeless camps.

SLC’s approved budget has a surprising addition

By Blake Apgar | June 14, 2023, 8:57 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Copperview Recreation Center is pictured on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Midvale is including a general obligation bond in this year's ballot to build a new recreation center. Mayor Marcus Stevenson said a new building is needed as Copperview, Midvale's current recreation center is estimated to have roughly 10 more years before it becomes too expensive to maintain.

How can Midvale get a pool and more youth programming? The city bets on one answer.

By Alixel Cabrera | June 13, 2023, 4:48 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former mayor and current mayoral candidate Rocky Anderson talks to a woman experiencing homelessness near the railroad tracks on 800 East, Thursday, June 8, 2023.

‘You clear them out’: How mayoral candidate Rocky Anderson wants to deal with — and help — unhoused Utahns who resist shelters

By Blake Apgar | June 13, 2023, 3:34 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall at the groundbreaking for The Other Side Village on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Mendenhall called the village of tiny homes one of her most significant achievements in her battle against homelessness.

‘Those cleanups, they’re not pretty’: Erin Mendenhall talks homeless camps, affordable housing in extended reelection bid interview

By Blake Apgar | June 13, 2023, 3:24 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Descendants of Thomas and Sarah Ann Spencer, from left Mavis Herbert and her daughter Susan Spencer Fazio, tour the pioneer home on Thursday, June 8, 2023, after the home's historical dedication ceremony. The Spencer Homestead, a 130-year-old, 160-acre homestead originally settled by Thomas and Sarah Ann Spencer and their three children in what is now Dimple Dell Regional Park, is now part of the National Register of Historic Places.

Step back in time at this newly dedicated ‘historic’ homestead in a popular Utah park

By Alixel Cabrera | June 10, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amy Fowler takes the oath of office as a Salt Lake City Council member on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Fowler will resign July 3 after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in May.

Amy Fowler’s court date delayed as SLC Council spells out how and when she will be replaced

By Blake Apgar | June 9, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) City Creek daylighting project would add water and gathering amenities to Folsom Trail, pictured on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, near downtown Salt Lake City. The path opened in 2022, but more work is underway.

Popular SLC trail could gain more neighborhood attractions

By Alixel Cabrera | June 6, 2023, 6:06 p.m.

(Salt Lake City, Nicholas Tate Barney) The proposed layout of The Ballpark, a group of Utah State University landscape architecture students' submission to the Ballpark Next competition. The proposal took first place in the contest's student category.

See the winners of SLC’s Ballpark Next competition. Will any of them make the final cut?

By Blake Apgar | June 1, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amy Fowler takes the oath of office as a Salt Lake City Council member on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. She announced Tuesday that she intends to resign from the council.

Amy Fowler to resign from SLC Council in wake of DUI arrest

By Blake Apgar | May 31, 2023, 3:38 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) City Hall in Salt Lake City in 2022. Mayor Erin Mendenhall's fiscal 2024 budget includes a program that would reimburse city employees for a swath of expenses, including those incurred when traveling out of state for abortions or other medical procedures.

SLC may start paying travel for out-of-state abortions for its employees. Will the plan last?

By Blake Apgar | May 30, 2023, 5:31 p.m.

(Salt Lake City, Dan Teed) A rendering of BaseCamp SLC, Dan Teed's submission to the Ballpark Next competition.

See all the submissions to SLC’s Ballpark Next design competition. Which do you like best?

By Blake Apgar | May 23, 2023, 10:52 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Homes border both sides of Interstate 15 in Woods Cross in January. Some community activists are still trying to stop a planned expansion of the freeway between Farmington and Salt Lake City.

UDOT update: Is burying I-15 an option? How many homes, businesses may be displaced?

By Alixel Cabrera | May 23, 2023, 12:22 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The living room of Amanda and AJ Secrist's home in Federal Heights, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Preservation Utah will host its annual Historic Homes Tour in the neighborhood Saturday.

Get an up-close look at one of Salt Lake City’s most prestigious neighborhoods on this weekend’s home tour

By Blake Apgar | May 18, 2023, 12:21 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A woman waits near the baggage carousel at Salt Lake City International Airport on Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Five new gates have opened in concourse A.

How Salt Lake City International Airport’s ‘new direction’ will ease travel for some

By Blake Apgar | May 16, 2023, 8:06 p.m.

(David Howells | Rio Tinto) Kennecott's north tailings impoundment on Oct. 26, 2021. The company is seeking an extension on the east side of the site to accommodate the expansion of the Bingham Canyon mine.

Kennecott’s tailings may creep even closer to homes in Magna

By Alixel Cabrera | May 16, 2023, 12:00 p.m.