The Salt Lake Tribune

7 hours ago | sltrib.com | Addy Baird

In his first speech on the Senate floor, Sen. John Curtis expressed concern Wednesday that Congress is ceding lawmaking authority to the White House and paid tribute to former Utah Rep. Mia Love, who died earlier this year. The Utah Republican also addressed his four main policy priorities - energy, local communities, China and the debt.

2 days ago | sltrib.com | Kevin Reynolds

2 days ago | sltrib.com | Kevin Reynolds

Ben Brimhall has been through this long enough to know his team needs a little extra help when those lottery balls start bouncing. As a diehard Utah Jazz fan, faithfully peering out from the first row of the second deck every game for the last decade, Brimhall is all too familiar with the pain his franchise has put fans through recently: 65 losses this year; 51 the year before that. All in the hope that the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft awaits. But the Jazz never get lucky.

4 days ago | sltrib.com | Shannon Sollitt

A new greenhouse at Perennial Favorites, a wholesale plant nursery in Layton, is the last waiting place for thousands of lilies, petunias, geraniums and other plants before they're shipped out to buyers across the Intermountain West. A warehouse would have been cheaper to build and operate, said Perennial CEO Cort Cox. But the greenhouse keeps both plants and employees cool in the hot summer months, and protects them from the elements in harsher weather.

4 days ago | sltrib.com | Sara Weber

Happy Saturday, and welcome to Inside Voices, a weekly newsletter that features a collection of ideas, perspectives and solutions from across Utah - without any of the vitriol or yelling that's become all too common on other platforms. Subscribe here. In mid-April, which was Autism Awareness Month, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference about increased rates of autism in children.