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Salt Lake City will require commercial building owners to report energy scores

Owners of Salt Lake City’s largest buildings — or many of them, anyway — will have to report their energy usage.The City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday that city officials believe will cut energy...

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Bagley Cartoon: The Air Apparent

This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...

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Michelle Quist Mumford: Hurricane Harvey's devastation illustrates weaknesses...

The devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas is total. Category 4 winds destroyed homes, buildings and basically the entire town of Rockport, Texas. Houston is presently under water. The...

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Tribune Editorial: Lead is for pencils, not water.

It seems that we’ve been poisoning our kids. Or, at least, our schools have.Almost 90 percent of the 249 school water systems recently tested for lead showed some level of lead in the drinking water....

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Thursday marks the end of the Twilight Concert Series for 2017 — and possibly...

When an $8 million renovation of the Gallivan Center moved Salt Lake City’s Twilight Concert Series to Pioneer Park in 2010, no one knew at the time if the music would return there for another...

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Legislators who almost raised food tax this year now consider eliminating it

In the waning days of this year’s Legislature, Utah lawmakers came close to raising the sales tax on food — but pulled back, saying more study was needed. Now, some members instead are considering...

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Utahns head to Houston to help with relief effort

Utahns are gathering resources to help feed and support displaced Texans after Hurricane Harvey left Houston and its environs submerged and floundering.A couple from Moab are driving a 30-foot mobile...

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Police search California hotel where a deputy was killed and 2 officers were...

Sacramento, Calif. • A gunman with an assault rifle shot and killed a California sheriff’s deputy and wounded two other officers Wednesday at a Sacramento hotel that was later surrounded by officers...

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BYU football: Freshman Khyiris Tonga is an impactful but less-hyped addition...

Provo • While a throng of reporters waited for their first chance to talk to 6-foot-7, 410-pound Motekiai Langi on Tuesday at BYU’s Indoor Practice Facility, another true freshman returned missionary...

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Crews try to restore badly scorched portions of Brian Head

It is raining straw over Utah’s Markagunt Plateau this week as helicopter crews drop mulch on the worst burn spots from the Brian Head fire.The month-long blaze that scorched 71,700 acres in and around...

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Rollie Massimino, who led Villanova to 1985 NCAA title, dies

West Palm Beach, Fla. • Rollie Massimino, who led Villanova’s storied run to the 1985 NCAA championship and won more than 800 games in his coaching career, died Wednesday after a long battle with...

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Foothill Drive ramps reopening tonight, in time for U. of U. football game rush

All Foothill Drive ramps around Interstate 80 in Salt Lake City are scheduled to reopen about 9 p.m. tonight, the Utah Department of Transportation announced.The closures have been in place since the...

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Commentary: Why not give aid money directly to Harvey’s victims?

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Harvard economist Edward Glaeser made a provocative proposal: Instead of spending billions in federal dollars to rebuild the city, why not give the...

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Coyotes captain Shane Doan calls it a career

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Commentary: Hungry Harvey victims have committed no crime

Twitter erupted with fury Tuesday after a television reporter tweeted from Houston that he had informed police about looting he observed at a grocery store while covering Hurricane Harvey. Angry tweets...

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Prep football: Corner Canyon sack artist Mikey Petty creates headaches for...

Draper • Something just didn’t seem to jibe about Mikey Petty when Eric Kjar took over the Corner Canyon Chargers football coaching job last year.Petty had athleticism, which Kjar could see. But for a...

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Hurricane Harvey survivors face an epic housing crisis

On the flooded Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands of people are facing a housing crisis that will drag on long after the floodwater recedes.Many have little information about the homes they fled. Now...

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Federal judge blocks Texas’ tough ‘sanctuary cities’ law

Austin, Texas • A federal judge late Wednesday temporarily blocked most of Texas’ tough new “sanctuary cities” law that would have allowed police to inquire about people’s immigration status during...

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Huntsman Corp. reopens headquarters in Texas

Huntsman Corp. has reopened its global headquarters and advanced technology center in The Woodlands, Texas, 30 miles north of Houston, but a company statement said employees are being advised “to avoid...

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Leonard Pitts: When you need saving, you don’t care who saves you

It seems like it always takes a disaster.Twenty-five years ago this month, that disaster was Andrew, a hurricane that devastated a large swath of South Florida, including the house in whose master...

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