North Salt Lake News

Brace for scrutiny, Salt Lakers: The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is holding its 2013 convention here at the end of the month .

The Utah Highway Patrol is investigating the crash of a semi-trailer truck on Interstate 15 that has traffic backed up throughout southern Davis County Tuesday afternoon.

Marissa Powell didn't win the title of Miss USA on Sunday, but she did make quite an impression en route to being named third runner-up.

I'd like to focus on the recycling programs that are coming to our cities. Our city leaders have decided that they are going to automatically sign us up for a curbside recycling program.

Utah's leading air quality organization made up of doctors wants state regulators to yank the permit of a North Salt Lake medical waste incinerator company because of "egregious" violations reported in late May. Dr. Brian Moench, president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, said the state Division of Air Quality should hold a public ... (more)

Workers from Chad's produce spread out among shoppers packing the Downtown Farmers Market to offer samples of their local lemon spinach, promising that it's not boring.

When news broke that a medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake was putting too much pollution into the air, hundreds of residents decided to take action.

State regulators already have cited Stericycle's medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake for violating pollution and record-keeping standards, and soon their attention will turn to fines.

The Utah Division of Air Quality issued a notice of violation Thursday to Stericycle for its operation at 90 N. 1100 West, where it has a permit to incinerate non-hazardous medical waste and is subject to routine stack tests.

This week has opportunities for every level of activism. At the grass-roots level, celebrate National Trails Day by working to beautify the Redwood Nature Area in West Valley City.

After more than 50 years in the retail and wholesale gasoline business, Utahns Ivan and Colleen Walker and their family have sold their Walker's convenience stores and other assets to San Antonio, Texas-based Tetco, reported The Salt Lake Tribune.

Think about your last visit to a Costco or Sam's Club, their brightly-lit stockrooms with aisles wide enough for a small flatbed, near the variety of a Middle Eastern bazaar without the haggling, and enough free samples to cover lunch on a Saturday.

A 54-year-old man was killed Monday evening when his vehicle rear-ended another car on I-215, careened across several lanes of traffic and was hit by another vehicle just entering the freeway.