Saratoga Springs News

The lone holdout in joining Salt Lake County's Unified Police Department, Bluffdale, is now considering forming its own force.

As the time for public comment on the proposed bridge over Utah Lake nears its end, more people are voicing concerns about the bridge than are supporting it.

During her mayoral campaign, Ludmya "Mia" Love was in a local park with a reporter who asked a city resident about Love's racial background.

A man is dead and three people are in the hospital after a violent head-on collision south of Saratoga Springs Wednesday morning.

In just two days, boosters raised $225,000 to send the American Fork High School Marching Band to Indianapolis this weekend for the 2009 Bands of America Grand Nationals.

Saratoga Springs made history Tuesday night, becoming the first Utah city to elect a black woman as mayor.

A man was arrested after a suspected drunken-driving wreck that injured a woman and her 8-year-old son Sunday in Saratoga Springs.

Two Utah cities will have new mayors next year. In Stockton, Dan Rydalch was voted out of office Tuesday.

John Curtis, who promised to heal the rift between the Provo mayor and the city council and to get tough on gangs, will be the first new mayor in Provo in 12 years after beating state legislator Steve Clark with 53 percent of the vote.

A riderless horse carried Old Glory, seven riflemen fired three volleys, and a bugler blew taps.

A Cedar Hills man was arrested Sunday after police say he caused a head-on collision while intoxicated.

Share + Nov 1, 2009 7:13 pm US/Eastern SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah A Utah solider killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was eulogized as a patriot who sacrificed his life for his country.

There were six candidates in Saratoga Spring's mayoral primary - far more than any neighboring city.

Casey Welch, from Irvine, teared up as he talked about the beauty of Utah Lake and how he wants to preserve it by not allowing a bridge across the lake.

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Pfc.

A Utah County family is grieving the loss of a son, a brother, a new husband and a stepfather who died in Afghanistan last week.

The last thing Lisa Barnes said to her son, Kimble A. Han, was to be careful. "'You be safe,' I said.

Local historians call it the bloodiest episode in Utah law enforcement history. In November 1913, Rafael Lopez, a traveling miner who was working in one of the Bingham Canyon mines at the time, killed five law enforcement officers and a civilian in one week before fleeing the state.

Dillon Davis might be the only one who sees him, but the 17-year-old knows his father will be there on the sidelines cheering him on as he competes in his first state championship cross country meet Wednesday.

While construction could begin as soon as next year on a nearly eight-mile-long bridge across Utah Lake, environmental groups and politicians are lining up for and against the undertaking.