Herriman News

The system for dispatching some 911 calls in Salt Lake County is "inherently inefficient," according to the findings of a legislative audit released Wednesday.

It was all one big accident -- a text message to a wrong number. But one message led to another.

One by one, at least six train cars went off a track and crashed into each other in Salt Lake City Thursday morning.

Two newly elected mayors trounced their competition Tuesday to take the helms of Utah's second- and fourth-largest cities.

Incumbents who have been in office since Herriman's 1999 incorporation were booted out Tuesday.

Elections in this small South Valley city have turned ugly. Less than two weeks before Election Day, Herriman residents received an anonymous mailer titled "Drugged Driving IS Drunk Driving," featuring the DUI citation of City Council candidate Mick Shannon.

The motorist who caused five bicyclists to crash during a race in August in American Fork Canyon pleaded no contest to a traffic offense and will pay $143. The 42-year-old entered his plea Tuesday in Utah County justice court, according to a court docket.

That was the tenor of a Tuesday public hearing in which dozens of property owners urged the Salt Lake County Council to reject changes to building standards that would shrink the size of new development in Millcreek.

Herriman might be a small city, but when it comes to dirty politics, someone is playing like the big boys.

Nurses Jennifer Knight, left, and Roxanne Wilson ready supply carts for the emergency room at the new Intermountain Riverton Hospital on in early October in Riverton.

A growing Utah movement favoring state's rights will rally Saturday in Vernon Worthen Park to discuss pending legislation and recruit members.

A judge has released a 17-year-old Vernal girl from jail after ruling she did not commit a crime when she allegedly paid a man to beat her in an attempt to miscarry her seven-month-old fetus.

Courtesy of Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Steven Noyce, new superintendent of Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind.

Salt Lake City is poised to do what the Utah Legislature refused to earlier this year: Protect gay and transgender residents from discrimination.

When Emily Warner learned at age 12 that her spine was slowly curving from scoliosis, she was mildly concerned but it didn't change her routine much.

Local and state dignitaries will break ground Wednesday on the South Valley Sewer District's $132 million water treatment project.

One of three Salt Lake Valley developers who pledged tens of millions of dollars worth of land for the state's Mountain View highway is backing out, Utah Transportation Commission members learned at their meeting here Thursday.

A South Jordan widow whose husband was killed and son was injured in the Trolley Square rampage says a businessman who approached her in church has defrauded her of $250,000 she received in life insurance benefits.

Cities throughout the state of Utah are holding primary elections for mayor and city council Tuesday.

A rally in support of the "912 Project" to recreate American unity drew nearly 2,000 people to the Utah Capitol.