Salt Lake City’s Filipino Festival returns to Jordan Park on June 20 with food trucks, cultural performances, free T‑shirts for early arrivals and a 50‑inch TV raffle.

Ensign Peak’s latest 13F shows the LDS Church’s U.S. stock holdings fell to about $53.7B in Q1 2026 even as the fund bought more shares.

A West Valley crossing guard used her stop sign to pry a pit bull off an 11‑year‑old, and the family says the girl suffered only minor injuries.

As Utah heats up, advocates warn parked cars can become deadly in minutes; long-term tracking shows more than 1,100 hot-car deaths since 1990 and advocates push reminders and tech.

NHMU and BLM Utah received an award for cataloging and preparing roughly 101,000 Indigenous objects seized in a major federal sting for repatriation and curation.

Utah’s annual Point‑in‑Time count shows a small, state‑led decline in homelessness this year, a shift leaders call hopeful even as advocates urge caution.

Weber School District won a $25M state APEX award plus a $5M Intermountain gift to build a 12th Street Catalyst Campus with eight hands-on career academies. An open house is scheduled Friday.

First Step House rolled out a mobile mental‑health team to meet people sleeping outside in Salt Lake City and offer on‑site psychiatric care, peer support and housing referrals.

An AP investigation and government probes found adopted children sent to for‑profit treatment centers faced restraints, punishments and safety failures. Regulators, lawsuits and federal reviewers are now pressing for change.

Mayor Mike Leonhardt, 58, has died after a short battle with cancer. The longtime local leader was remembered as a volunteer fire chief and community advocate.

The LDS Church announced open-house dates for the Ephraim Utah Temple this fall and scheduled a June 6 groundbreaking for the Springfield, Missouri, temple.

A vehicle struck the Utah Animal Adoption Center in Sandy Sunday; no animals or people were hurt and the shelter has launched an online donation fund to help cover damage.

The LDS Church sued John Dehlin and his nonprofit, saying Mormon Stories' name and branding risk confusing listeners about affiliation with the Church.