Magna News

Gov. Gary Herbert visited a high school in the Salt Lake City suburb of Magna to discuss teen suicide with students and to sign legislation designed to prevent it.

Police have arrested three teenagers who told Utah fire officials they lit hymnals on fire in a Mormon chapel, causing the building to set ablaze.

This township on the west side of Salt Lake County owes its name to a sister city in Utah County named Pleasant Grove.

When Hawthorne Elementary sixth-grader Virginia Mogzec began studying historic signs in Sugar House as part of her Neighborhood Extended Learning Program class, she had never heard of the Lincoln Highway.

As West Valley City officials continue their nationwide search for a new chief to steer their troubled police department, Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder has a different idea: The regional police agency serves Copperton, Herriman, Holladay, Kearns, Magna, Midvale, Millcreek, Riverton, southeast communities and Taylorsville.

Kennecott's unions floated an early retirement proposal to the company on Friday, hoping the early departures of perhaps 200 older workers might lessen the number of layoffs Kennecott makes later this month.

It's not unusual for Craig Vorwaller to see motorists texting, talking on cell phones or even reading books during his run from Salt Lake City to Reno.