Salt Lake County News

A man shot in May during a confrontation with police in the lobby of the West Valley City Police Department has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a child pornography charge.

Bystanders are credited with rescuing a 4-year-old boy from drowning in a swimming pool at a West Jordan apartment complex.

Two families in Salt Lake County got quite a scare Wednesday. Two young boys swimming in separate pools across the valley nearly drowned.

It's easy to see, but a solution to deal with Utah's bad air quality has been hard to come by.

Just when the future of the century-old Capitol Theatre was in dire straits, the Janet Quinney Lawson Foundation came to the rescue.

Salt Lake City Council swing vote Jill Remington Love signaled her support for an $8 million property-tax increase Tuesday afternoon and four others followed suit to pass a $221 million annual budget.

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams said Monday he is looking to double access to after-school programs in the county and his office will work with the United Way to expand high quality public preschool through private investments.

The dust had barely settled on the Salt Lake County Planning Commission's denial of a rezoning request for Tavaci Development , at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, when the developer turned to the County Council for a different decision.

In the depths of the Great Recession, when jobs were being lost and economic activity was badly down, Utah officials rejoiced when the National Security Agency picked Utah as the site of a major processing center, to be located just outside the gates of Camp Williams In the depths of the Great Recession, when jobs were being lost and economic ... (more)

Snowbird a Nick Westbye held his daughter, 4-year-old Amelya, securely as they rode down the 1,300 feet of super-sized slide at Snowbird ski resort .

Salt Lake County Council Chairmen Steve DeBry is concerned that Salt Lake's Pride Parade is a political event, and therefore the county's library should not participate .

After adding $1.2 billion worth of new rail lines in the past year , the Utah Transit Authority projected that its overall ridership would be growing.

Enjoying the Jordan River Parkway just got easier with a newly released map of trails that run from the Utah County border in the south to the Great Salt Lake.

The 17-year-old's sister read the apology shortly after a hearing in which her brother pleaded not guilty to the charge of homicide by assault.

SALT LAKE CITY The family of a Utah teenager charged in the death of a soccer referee apologized Friday to the man's family for the first time, saying it cannot imagine how much they miss their father.

The family of a Utah teenager charged in the death of a soccer referee apologized Friday to the man's family for the first time, saying it cannot imagine how much they miss their father.

Two Salt Lake County tech companies were granted tax breaks Thursday for the promise of creating more than 700 jobs over the next five to seven years and expanding their operations.

Even knowing the project eventually will come with a fairly steep price tag, the Salt Lake County Council signaled its support Tuesday for a pilot program aimed at providing a select group of criminals with training that will keep them from returning to jail.

Thu-Hien Vo, right, originally from Vietnam, Biah Nguyen, originally from Vietnam, and Mehwish Javeed, originally from Pakistan, recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the Salt Lake County naturalization ceremony at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

Members of the newly constituted Prison Relocation and Development Authority board decided Wednesday that they want to see the information that led their predecessors to conclude moving the Utah State Prison makes financial sense before seeking bids for the project.