• Analysis links years with biggest wildfires to those with hottest temperatures

    As temperatures rise in the U.S. West, so do the flames.The years with the most acres burned by wildfires have some of the hottest temperatures, an Associated Press analysis of fire and weather data found. As human-caused climate change has warmed the world over the past 35 years, the land consumed by flames has more than doubled.Experts say the way global warming worsens wildfires comes down to the basic dynamics of fire. Fires need ignition, oxygen and fuel. And what's really changed is fuel &
  • Proposed Wyoming wind farm could power Colorado cities

    Cheyenne, Wyo. • A proposed wind energy project in southern Wyoming could provide power to more than 70,000 homes in several communities in northern Colorado.The Roundhouse Renewable Energy Project, which would be operated by Utah-based Enyo Renewable Energy, would use 75 turbines to generate 150 megawatts of energy annually for homes in Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and Estes Park, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported Sunday.If approved, the wind farm would become one of northern Colorado
  • IndyCar driver Robert Wickens taken to hospital after scary crash

    Long Pond, Pa. • IndyCar driver Robert Wickens was taken by helicopter for medical treatment following a violent wreck at the start of Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway, where a driver was killed in 2015.IndyCar said Wickens was awake and alert as he was taken to a hospital. The 29-year-old Canadian driver was attempting to pass Ryan Hunter-Reay when the two cars slightly touched. That caused Hunter-Reay's car to careen into the wall and Wickens' car was pulled along for the ride. Once
  • Trump says his White House counsel isn’t a ‘RAT’ like Nixon’s; compares Russia probe to McCarthyism

    Bridgewater, N.J. • President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that his White House counsel isn’t a “RAT” like the Watergate-era White House attorney who turned on Richard Nixon, and he blasted the ongoing Russia investigation as “McCarthyism.”Trump, in a series of angry tweets, denounced a New York Times story that his White House counsel, Don McGahn, has been cooperating extensively with the special counsel team investigating Russian election meddling and potenti
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  • Designer of collapsed Italian bridge warned in 1979 of risk of corrosion

    Rome • The Italian engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that collapsed and killed dozens warned four decades ago that it would require constant maintenance to remove rust given the effects of corrosion from sea air and pollution on the concrete.RAI state television broadcast excerpts Sunday of the report that the late engineer Riccardo Morandi penned in 1979, 12 years after the bridge bearing his name was inaugurated in Genoa. The Associated Press downloaded the English-language report fr
  • Utes moving into the ‘college’ part of playing college football

    The Utah Utes have completed a three-week period that sophomore receiver Britain Covey half-kiddingly described as “lockdown.” And now the football players will enter into the other aspect of their lives as college athletes.You know, college.The school's 2018-19 academic calendar starts with the fall semester Monday, giving the team a well-timed transition into the season that begins Aug. 30 vs. Weber State. The preseason camp phase ended Saturday and the Utes will launch into their
  • Comedian David Cross faces backlash after promoting University of Utah show with a photo of himself in Mormon temple garments

    A comedian set to perform at the University of Utah this week is facing heavy backlash online — including accusations of religious bigotry and calls for the school to cancel his show — after he promoted his act on Twitter with a photo of himself wearing Mormon temple garments.David Cross posted the ad on social media Saturday afternoon with the catchphrase “Utah! Learn the real truth!” He’s pictured standing outside of a dressing room in the sacred underclothes that
  • As rumors swirl about the future of the Angels' managerial spot, Eric Chavez has taken over the Bees. Is he L.A.'s future skipper, or just enjoying his intro to the job in Salt Lake?

    Eric Chavez whisks through the locker room less than three hours before first pitch, gives one of his relief pitchers blasting reggaeton a quick vote of confidence and suddenly takes a hard left into the office that, as of a week ago, wasn’t his.The manager’s office inside Smith’s Ballpark looks how you’d expect. Gear and papers strewn about and a laptop open on the center of the desk. That’s his least-favorite part of this new gig. The computer. He can work a compu
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  • Pac-12 preview: Oregon’s Mario Cristobal has a head start, compared with other new coaches

    Oregon's promotion of Mario Cristobal as head coach hardly looked like a great idea as of the second quarter of the Las Vegas Bowl last December, when the Ducks trailed Boise State 24-0.The eventual 38-28 loss marked a poor start for Cristobal, but he’s positioned to succeed immediately. Of the Pac-12′s five programs with new coaches in 2018, Oregon has the most returning talent and some continuity, with Cristobal having coached the offensive line last season.He brings head coaching
  • Another sign of hard times for teachers? They make up nearly 10 percent of Airbnb hosts.

    Nearly 1 in 10 hosts who rent out their apartments, homes and spaces on Airbnb are teachers, according to a new survey by the company, another possible indicator of the hardship facing members of the profession as wages fall or stagnate compared with other college graduates.Airbnb said that results of its survey, in which hosts voluntarily reported information about their professions, indicated 45,000 active hosts on the service were teachers. Another 30,000 had teachers living in their househol
  • ICE arrested a wanted man driving his pregnant wife to give birth. She drove herself to the hospital.

    Maria del Carmen Venegas was on her way to deliver a baby boy, her fifth child, by Caesarean section in a planned operation Wednesday afternoon. Her husband, Joel Arrona-Lara, was driving her car to the hospital.Two SUVs swooped in to block the vehicle at a San Bernardino, California, gas station. They belonged to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the agents asked for Venegas' identification, she later told CBS Los Angeles. She complied. The agents also asked for Arrona's identification.T
  • New Trump power plant plan could release hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into air

    President Donald Trump plans next week to unveil a proposal that would empower states to establish emission standards for coal-fired power plants rather than speeding their retirement — a major overhaul of the Obama administration’s signature climate policy and one that could significantly increase the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Trump plans to announce the measure as soon as Tuesday during a visit to West Virginia, according to two administration officials who spok
  • In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches

    Tameika Lovell was retrieving luggage at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport when Customs and Border Protection officers detained her for a random search. It was Nov. 27, 2016, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and the school counselor from Long Island had just returned from a short Jamaica vacation. Lovell, who is black, had been stopped before, but this time a CBP supervisor began asking questions she hadn't heard previously."Don't you think you're spending too much money traveling?"
  • Grand Canyon road reopens after lightning-caused wildfire

    Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. • Grand Canyon National Park is reopening a scenic road to a North Rim vista that was closed Aug. 4 because of a lightning-caused wildfire.Park officials said the Cape Royal road would be reopened Saturday evening along with some of the trails that also were closed.Officials say hikers using reopened trails need to be vigilant about fire-weakened or -damaged trees.The two-week closure did not affect most North Rim facilities, including lodging and other ser
  • Gomberg: An ‘I don’t know what to do’ text from Mom brings our family together

    My mom has always said that tragedy brings out the worst or best in people, and (as in most things) my own experience seems to prove her right.This time it involves my grandma Betty, who is stalwartly, although not effectively, fighting the mounting challenges of age. Her organs are tired and her immunity is like a balloon losing its helium — a feat and a wonder, but no real match for time or gravity.Her 88-year-old life vessel is failing her, and it’s time for us to make some decisi
  • Kirby: Mormon by any other name is still Mormon

    I officially became a Mormon in 1961, when the Old Man raised his hand, said some words and shoved me under water in a Zaragoza, Spain, swimming pool.What I was before that moment — probationary, reserve, in training — I don’t know. It never really came up until a friend got dunked a few months later.While listening to Leon get confirmed an actual, genuine member of the church, it raised an important gospel question: If we were just now becoming Mormons, what were we before?Me
  • George Pyle: How we joined the parade of the editorial pages in defense of the free press

    Like a lot of ideas these days — good and bad — it started small and got a lot bigger really quickly when it hit the internet.The people in charge of the editorial pages at The Boston Globe were planning to publish an editorial pushing back at the president of the United States for his strategy of animating his small but enthusiastic base by demonizing the free press. By calling us “fake news,” or “the enemy of the people.” By encouraging the already vulgar cr
  • Tribune editorial: Plans for former monument lands show why protection was needed.

    Utah is a public lands state. It has some of the most pristine and beautiful landscape anywhere in the world.It is our glory, our claim to fame, our soul.Yet there are people here, people in high places with friends in higher places, for whom a piece of land seems to have no value unless you have dug a hole in it.That is the sad conclusion to be drawn from the plans now drawn, and hints of more to come, as to how the federal government want to manage the lands that were once — and may stil
  • Commentary: Lee and Stewart bills hurt Washington County desert tortoise reserve

    Congress seems awash in bills to undermine environmental laws, laws that resulted from serious problems in this country and which have helped protect citizens and the threatened and endangered species that inhabit this planet with us. Two bills – S.3297 and H.R. 5597 – make it appear by their title that the intent is to expand sensitive habitat in Washington County, Utah. Nothing could be further from the truth.These bills titled “Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan Expan
  • Commentary: Will voters put Utah kids first?

    Hundreds of Utah teachers are choosing new careers outside of education this school year. Those still working with Utah students can’t help but ask: Will this be the year Utahns put our kids first?Never before has the need for strengthening public education in Utah been clearer. As Utah Teachers of the Year, we know the opportunity to improve academic outcomes for Utah kids can be reached by voting for Question 1.Kids in Utah are not reaching our collective expectations despite the best ef
  • Commentary: PacifiCorp is missing the Clean Energy Bus

    Across the West, utilities and electricity customers are finding savings by shutting down old coal plants and replacing them with new renewable energy. All evidence shows that PacifiCorp, the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power, can also save money for Utahns by switching off coal plants.However, PacifiCorp wants to extend the depreciation of their aging coal plants well beyond their life expectancy. Indefensibly, PacifiCorp refuses to disclose costs of this scheme to the public. Make no mist
  • Commentary: Immigrants help build the cities that make Utah shine. Let’s embrace them.

    When I first came to the United States from my native country of South Africa in 1983, at age 22, all I brought with me was a suitcase, $1,000 and a big dream of success in America. I grew up in Durban inspired by American democratic ideals of freedom and opportunity. I knew in my heart that if you worked hard — and had a little luck — you could make it beyond your wildest expectations here.For centuries, this belief has fueled the ambitions of many immigrants like me. We start busin
  • Commentary: Antiquities Act protects wild lands in Utah. We should keep it.

    In a recent op-ed for The Salt Lake Tribune, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman lauded Sen. Mike Lee for his work toward limiting conservation in the state of Utah. As a candidate for the state Legislature who, like Lyman, is hoping to serve as a voice for rural Utah, I cannot disagree with him more.The passage of the PURE Act would create more barriers to Utah citizens who believe in protecting cultural resources. It would strip away Utahn’s ability to appeal to the executive branch
  • Commentary: The high price of insulin creates obscene profits for drugmakers

    Recently, as I was leaving a Walgreen’s pharmacy in Ogden, I encountered an elderly man who was just outside the door. He was begging for any money anyone might be able to offer.He didn’t appear to be homeless. He wasn’t carrying a cardboard sign. He was clean and well dressed. He spoke proper, educated English. He may have been a retired teacher, or plumber, or mechanic, or accountant. He was not a bum.He looked like an American who had worked his entire life and finally been
  • Commentary: Time for Mitt Romney to practice what he preaches

    Hey, Mitt Romney. You now say, very publicly: “In this country, it must be electorally disqualifying to equivocate on racism.”Good point. But it’s time to practice what you preach. I call upon you to condemn your own past participation in racial segregation as both racist and wrong — unequivocally. I call upon you to condemn multiple racist passages in your Mormon scripture as wrong — unequivocally. Either that, or proclaim yourself electorally disqualified —
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Street performers enliven ‘an urban environment,’ downtown Salt Lake City boosters say, and they want more

    ... ho performs five days a week downtown, finds that his repertoire of big-band jazz standards can usually connect with any crowd. “Everybody respects it and lik ...
  • ‘Gawdawful’ breakfast and other reminders of Big Ed’s live on as spruced-up coffee shop opens near University of Utah

    The wooden Big Ed’s sign hangs on the inside wall next to the front door. The wooden chairs and church pews have been painted black. And there is a new version of the “gawdawful” breakfast — albeit with tater tots, pickled onions and creme fraiche — on the menu.These are a few of the historic touches incorporated into the new Publik Ed’s, an all-day coffee shop and restaurant that opened last week near the University of Utah.It is the fourth store for Salt Lak
  • Utahns would love to be on goofy TV game show to pay off their college loans

    “Paid Off With Michael Torpey” just might be one of the strangest shows on television. It’s a goofy game show focused on a serious subject — the crushing weight of student-loan debt that’s afflicting millions of Americans.It’s sort of a dream come true for contestants, who are staggering under their loans.Season 1 of the truTV show doesn't featured any contestants from Utah, but there are certainly plenty of Utahns who would jump at the chance to appear.&ldquo
  • A southern Utah county that fought monument designations is now eager to make money off them

    After years of complaining about national monuments within its borders, southeastern Utah’s San Juan County is now highlighting them in a new branding effort to boost economic development in this historically overlooked corner of the state.County officials last week unveiled a new campaign featuring the tag line “Make It Monumental,” wordplay that references Bears Ears National Monument and Monument Valley, in hope of promoting the region as a less-crowded entry point to Utah&r
  • ‘Where do they go?’ With prices rising, advocates urge Utah leaders to focus on affordable housing to help reduce homelessness.

    As officials dissect the first year of Operation Rio Grande, some are pointing to deep structural problems in Utah's housing markets as a major contributor to homelessness.State, county and city leaders touted their progress last week in the police and social-services campaign, which has targeted crime and vagrancy in the Rio Grande neighborhood around Salt Lake City’s downtown homeless shelter. But advocates say that, despite hundreds of homeless being helped and housed through the progra
  • Street performers enliven ‘an urban environment,’ downtown Salt Lake City boosters say, and they want more

    Flat-soled tennis shoes don’t have the same flexibility as ballet slippers, but “they’re good for cushioning cement” when Salt Lake City’s Municipal Ballet Co. is performing for crowds on downtown sidewalks, says dancer, founder and director Sarah Longoria.Musician Dallin McAllister’s favorite, and most lucrative, spots for busking are wherever the people are — City Creek Center during the day, farther south at bars and restaurants during the evening.&ld
  • Rich Lowry: The immortal Indianapolis

    The worst disaster in the history of the United States Navy only began with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.Three hundred men died in the initial catastrophe on July 30, 1945, then the survivors cast into the sea suffered unimaginable horrors, abandoned for days without food or water in shark-infested waters.The new book "Indianapolis" is a bestseller, a testament not just to its novelistic style, but the enduring fascination with the tragedy.Another book published about 15 years ago, "In Ha
  • David Cross insisted on performing in Salt Lake City — even though he’s baffled by how many Utahns support Trump

    (Photo: Saeed Adyani/Netflix) Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross and Will Arnett in “Arrested Development.” (Saeed Adyani/Netflix/)David Cross is not coming to Salt Lake City to perform because somebody scheduled him here — he’s scheduled to perform here because he insisted.“When I was talking to my booking agent about doing another tour, there were a handful of places that I said, ‘I definitely want to go there. Definitely, make sure I go back there
  • [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Donovan Mitchell homers in first at bat in James Harden’s charity softball game

    ... im. No team was interested enough in his skills — after last season when the Jazz traded him away to Cleveland and he struggled to get off the Cavs’ bench — t ...
  • Scott D. Pierce: Betty White kissed me once, and I liked it

    I’ve interviewed hundreds of TV stars since 1990, and nobody made a bigger, better impression than Betty White.She kissed me once, and I liked it.OK, she kissed me on the cheek in the most public of situations — in front of several hundred people (including the stars of “The Big Bang Theory,” “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and “Battlestar Galactica”) at the 2009 Television Critics Association Award. I was there to present her with the TCA&r
  • Letter: Utah will be better off without the Trumpian Orrin Hatch

    On President Donald Trump’s election, David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, lamented, “This is an American tragedy.” My memory of Sen. Orrin Hatch’s election in 1976 is not quite as strident, but close to it.Hatch’s John Birchish tactics after defeating Republican hopeful Jack Carlson and sitting Sen. Frank Moss mirrored the demagoguery of Trump. Hatch’s attacks on Carlson as told by his wife, Renee, in a book, and the radio debates I heard of Hatch and Mos
  • Letter: Trump takes a knee before Putin. Now who’s disrespecting the flag?

    I see from reading The Tribune (Aug. 14) that President Donald Trump continues to tweet about NFL football players taking a knee during the national anthem. He demands that any so doing be suspended without pay.In Helsinki, Trump took a metaphorical knee before Vladimir Putin, not in respectful protest but in deepest admiration of the man who worked so hard to get him elected and who continues, in the face of the upcoming midterm elections, to do all in his considerable power to undermine our de
  • Letter: Trump panders to his base of bigots

    President Donald Trump has seized the NFL players’ peaceful protest against unequal justice as a way to pander to his base of bigots. America is better than this.Carol Ogden, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  • Letter: It’s vital that Utahns step up to help solve our suicide crisis

    Utah’s suicide rate has climbed 46.5 percent since 1999, and it is the leading cause of death among youth age 10 to 17. Gov. Gary Herbert has established the Teen Suicide Prevention Task Force, and other preventive measures — like the creation of the SafeUT app — have been taken, but more needs to be done. This is truly a public health crisis and should be treated as such.It takes a community, united and resolute, to reach solutions for a societal problem like suicide. On an is
  • Letter: I’ll no longer support the NFL thanks to disrespectful players

    Dear NFL players who have chosen so callously to disrespect our American flag and all it represents, please know that I will be giving up all Sunday, Monday and Thursday NFL football.You cannot change what our American flag represents — you cannot just decide that you want our flag and national anthem to represent your personal vendettas. Our flag and anthem represent America, our people and those who fight for our freedom. Red symbolizes hardiness and valor, white symbolizes purity and in
  • Letter: Gerrymandering and unresponsive leaders take away Utahns’ voice

    It’s hard to hold my tongue. My individual political power has been hijacked. State leadership has become comfortable discounting people like me who are outside their constituency. They take for granted they don't need to listen to citizen participants.Evidence: Most people in Utah have supported Medicaid expansion for years. Most people don't want the national monuments reduced. The governor doesn't acknowledge a thousand people demonstrating at the Capitol against reducing national monum
  • Letter: Don’t be clueless and start another Utah wildfire

    I was driving behind a black pickup truck last night going up Provo Canyon when the driver threw a lighted cigarette out of the window! Sparks from the cigarette scattered and blew across the road. There was dry brush all along Highway 189 between Bridal Veil Falls and Vivian Park. I couldn't believe someone could be so stupid or irresponsible. These are the kinds of people who start wildfires! I hope everyone will remind clueless friends not do this … ever! And report it if you witness s
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Royce O’Neale on wrong end of ‘best swat’ of ’17-18

    ... 018 It was a memorable moment, to be sure, but for all the wrong reasons for Jazz fans and particularly for Royce O’Neale. Luckily, Royce and his teammates wo ...
  • Utah Jazz: Royce O’Neale on wrong end of ‘best swat’ of ’17-18

    The NBA recently counted down the best blocks of 2017-18 and unfortunately Utah Jazz standout Royce O’Neale was on the wrong end of the top highlight. During the long NBA offseason, it can be hard to fill the horrible void left by the absence of basketball. One of the few available methods for satiating such […]
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  • NFL preseason roundup: Case Keenum rebounds but Bears beat Broncos 24-23

    Denver • Case Keenum moved the chains for the first time for the Broncos in a 24-23 exhibition loss to the Chicago Bears on Saturday night, and Chad Kelly threw another touchdown after leapfrogging Paxton Lynch on the depth chart.Lynch’s second straight poor performance opened the door for the Bears to come back from a 23-10 fourth-quarter deficit.Bears backup QB Chase Daniel threw two TD passes in the final five minutes, including a 12-yarder to tight end Ben Braunecker with 1:53 lef
  • Photos: Davis County Fair wraps up

    The final day of the Davis County Fair wrapped up Saturday with high-flying aerodynamics courtesy of BMX bike riders and aerial acrobats. There was also a sea lion show, a Dutch oven cook-off and a rodeo.
  • Wildfire in Rose Canyon leads to brief evacuation suggestion near Herriman

    Fire crews are gaining on a wildfire that started Saturday afternoon in Rose Canyon and prompted voluntary evacuations of more than 430 nearby homes, according to Unified Fire Authority.Crews arrived at the fire about 3 p.m. Saturday near 8030 Step Mountain Road in Herriman. At the scene, they saw flames and the potential for spreading, so they asked all residents living immediately south and west of 14100 S. Shaggy Mountain Road to evacuate.By Saturday afternoon, crews had gotten a handle on th
  • Albert Rusnak scores two goals in stoppage time to lift Real Salt Lake over the Dynamo in Houston

    Houston • Albert Rusnak scored two goals in stoppage time to help Real Salt Lake beat the Houston Dynamo 2-1 on Saturday night.Real Salt Lake (11-10-5) won on the road for just the second time this season.Rusnak converted from penalty spot in the 10th minute of injury time to give Real Salt Lake its first lead.Oscar Boniek Garcia gave Houston a 1-0 lead in the 36th minute when he scored his first MLS goal since Aug. 21, 2015. A free kick by the Dynamo bounced high off the wall and Garcia fi
  • Firefighters plan to lift wildfire evacuation orders in Rose Canyon near Herriman

    Fire crews are gaining on a wildfire that started Saturday afternoon in Rose Canyon and prompted voluntary evacuations of more than 430 nearby homes, according to Unified Fire Authority.Fire crews responded to the fire about 3 p.m. Saturday near 8028 Step Mountain Road in Herriman. On the scene, they saw visible flames and the potential for spreading and asked all residents living south and west of 14101 S. Shaggy Mountain Road to evacuate.By Saturday afternoon, crews had gotten a handle on the
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell blasts homer at Harden’s charity softball game

    ... communities facing economic hardship.” RELATED PRODUCT Donovan Mitchell Utah Jazz Fanatics Branded 2018 All-Star Game Slam Dunk Champion T-Shirt – Navy Buy No ...

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