Salt Lake City News

A Senate committee on Tuesday OK'd a ban on cell phone use by teen drivers when they're behind the wheel.

On Valentine's Day, Andrew Davis likes to buy his wife, Kellie, nice jewelry. But the Iraq war veteran is having to think twice about a major purchase this year.

The Utah Transit Authority is considering reducing the number of trains on one of its TRAX lines this April.

For many devout Mormons, Utah's capital city is important mainly as a setting for the jewel that really matters: Temple Square at the city's center.

Eric Rasmussen, left, and Glen Dams compete in a gold sprint stationary bike race during the grand opening of Specialized Bicycle's 250,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in West Valley City Thursday.

Prosecutors on Monday dropped state charges against a woman in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart in exchange for a guilty plea related to the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin.

The Utah Highway Patrol and West Valley City police captured a Salt Lake City man who led them on a short chase Saturday afternoon.

Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 8:01 a.m. SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most vexing problems facing the clean-energy industry - how to store power.

The rarity of natural gas filling stations like this one in Salt Lake City is expected keep natural gaspowered vehicles like this Ford pickup and Honda Civic from playing a big role in the nationa s energy picture anytime soon.

Tribal members descend in late January each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history's bloodiest_ but little remembered_ massacres.

Six Locals ' mission is to survey a random-sampling of downtown's inhabitants on a pertinent topic.

Anne Smart-Pearce can't sleep at night anymore. Her family said it's fear that keeps the 86-year-old woman awake at night and asleep during the day.

Representative Carl Wimmer When the grassroots organization Legalize Utah decided to undertake the task of obtaining a personal opinion from every lawmaker within the state of Utah, they were scoffed at.

Social media strategists Megan Hoskins and David Rathbun of Richter7 will speak to Utah Business Travel Association members and guests from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, 255 S. West Temple.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Charges have been filed against a woman accused of killing her ex-daughter-in-law. The Salt Lake County District Attorneya s Office filed murder charges against Mary Nance Hanson.

A bill that would give a woman seeking an abortion the option to first view her ultrasound passed the Utah House on Friday.

Hatch: soldiers belong in the closet, or do they? Posted By: Jesse Fruhwirth Utah Sen.

Gov. Gary Herbert has been challenged by his presumptive Democratic opponent to return a $10,000 campaign donation to a coal company that got a fast-track decision from state regulators on a strip mine.

A carefully crafted compromise to withhold pressure for statewide gay rights legislation in order to prevent challenges to new local laws appears increasingly fragile in Utah.

Salt Lake City FBI and Utah Division of Real Estate Name Top Five Mortgage Scams in 2010 Special Agents and State Investigators Warn Utahns to Beware Is someone letting you live in a home for free? Did a builder offer you deep discounts to move into a newly constructed house? Has a company offered to refinance your mortgage for a fee? If the answer ...