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Overview
The Salt Lake Tribune, a nonprofit since 2019, and the Deseret News, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are Utah's two statewide newspapers, and the Tribune is the main paper for the Capitol and the Salt Lake County courts. The Standard-Examiner in Ogden, the Daily Herald in Provo, the Spectrum in St. George, the Herald Journal in Logan, the Park Record and the Moab Times-Independent cover their regions, and Utah News Dispatch covers state government online.
Utah newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires, most of which also run on the state's own Utah Public Notice Website, publish obituaries for 29 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the Utah courts' Xchange system.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Utah Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Utah. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Utah newspapers and what they cover
The Tribune covers Salt Lake City, state government, the Utah Supreme Court and the federal court, with back issues from the 1870s onward in the digital archives. The Deseret News covers the same ground with a national and faith focus. The Standard-Examiner covers Weber and Davis counties, the Daily Herald covers Utah County and Brigham Young University, the Spectrum covers Washington County and southern Utah, and the Herald Journal covers Cache Valley. Rural weeklies such as the Emery County Progress, the Richfield Reaper and the Vernal Express carry county commission minutes, sheriff's reports and district court notices.
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Historic Utah newspapers online
Utah Digital Newspapers from the University of Utah's Marriott Library is one of the largest free state newspaper archives in the country, with millions of pages from 1850 onward, and Utah titles also appear in Chronicling America. The Utah State Archives and the Utah State Historical Society hold newspaper microfilm statewide, and the Salt Lake City Public Library provides free access to the Tribune and Deseret News archives with a library card and keeps an obituary index.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Utah
Utah law requires trustee's sale notices for foreclosures, notices to creditors in probate, name changes, tax sales and county and city notices to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and on the Utah Legal Notices site run by the state's newspapers, and government meeting notices must also appear on the Utah Public Notice Website. Most Utah dailies and weeklies run obituaries, and the Salt Lake City library's index covers older deaths. Court coverage pairs with Xchange, the Utah courts' subscription case search, and the free court calendars.
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Straight answers
Utah Newspaper Directory, questions
What are Utah's main newspapers?
The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News statewide, followed by the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, the Daily Herald in Provo, the Spectrum in St. George and the Herald Journal in Logan.
Where are historic Utah newspapers online free?
Utah Digital Newspapers from the University of Utah offers millions of free pages from 1850 onward, and Chronicling America adds more.
Where are Utah legal notices published?
In a newspaper of general circulation in the county and on the Utah Legal Notices site, while government meeting notices must also appear on the state's Utah Public Notice Website.