Common questions
8 answersWhat is Salt Lake Chatter?
Salt Lake Chatter is the Hometown Chatter site for Salt Lake Valley (Salt Lake County and Tooele County). We publish local alerts, high school and college scores, mountain bike results, good news, trails, and local deals — real numbers and official sources only. We are part of Hometown Chatter; sister live region: DixieChatter in Southern Utah.
Which places do you cover?
Salt Lake County and Tooele County. Focus area: Salt Lake City / Tooele Valley and surrounding Salt Lake + Tooele communities. Content outside those counties belongs on another Utah region site or the national hub.
How do high school scores work?
We post verified scores and records as soon as an official source confirms them. Sources: UHSAA and the school’s own athletics pages. We never use MaxPreps. Cards stay empty until a number is verified. Every posted score shows a timestamp (America/Denver) and the named source.
Where do mountain bike results come from?
Utah High School Cycling League / NICA results come from utahmtb.org and RaceResult only. Local races need an official posted result. We do not invent placements or times.
How do you handle weather and road alerts?
Alerts come from NWS, UDOT, and local emergency offices for Salt Lake County and Tooele County. Each alert card shows when we last checked and the issuing agency. Clear or expired alerts are removed or labeled — we do not leave stale warnings up as current.
Are you live yet?
Yes. Salt Lake Chatter is live for Salt Lake County and Tooele County. New verified scores, alerts, results, and good news post as soon as an official source confirms them, each with a timestamp and source. Salt Lake stories are also shared by the national Hometown Chatter account, labeled Salt Lake and linked back here to hometownchatter.com/salt-lake/.
Who runs this / how can I trust it?
Hometown Chatter is local-first news for Utah regions. Editorial rule: cite the source, use real numbers, publish fast, no fluff. Photos are either ours or free public-domain / openly licensed images with credit on the page. Income is AdSense and platform payouts only — we do not sell ads into the feed.
How do social posts relate to the site?
Every social post about a story should open the page that story lives on. We write unique local copy; we do not boost or buy placements until there is an approved revenue path.
Official sources
Named on every cardEvery score, result and alert card names its source and shows when we checked it (America/Denver). Header photo: Photo: Invictus323, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped, darkened, wordmark added).
