South Salt Lake News

Embattled councilman Shane Siwik resigned from his position as quietly as possible Tuesday night, waiting to give notice to the city recorder until both men were in the City Hall parking lot, ready to head home.

When you restore an antique desk from the 1890s, do you take the gum off the bottom? Workers, volunteers and neighbors at the Pioneer Craft House in South Salt Lake asked that Saturday after excavating desks, teaching aids and student papers from the building's previously unknown attic.

Dirk, a K-9 for the West Jordan Police Department, won several awards in police dog competitions.

On the heels of the release of PETA's findings from an eight-month undercover investigation of animal experiments at the University of Utah , the Student Organization for Animal Rights will protest against the abuse of homeless animals in the school's laboratories.

Fourteen-year-old Keily Spendlove was walking home from Kearns Junior High in May when she heard a horn honk and turned to see a white car coming down the sidewalk toward her.

Mark Miller stands in front of his new dealership, the former Larry H. Miller Subaru in Sandy on Thursday, November 12, 2009.

A vote on a pair of nondiscrimination ordinances that would provide housing and employment protections for gay and lesbian Salt Lakers could come this month.

South Salt Lake police say a man thought he was being polite by giving a friend from work and another man a ride home Saturday night, but the two men hit him in the head with a gun and robbed him.

We had a bit of drama and sadness at our house last week. One of our chickens died.

West Valley City police nabbed a man accused of fleeing from police as many as a dozen times early Saturday.

All-age venue Avalon falls foul of South Salt Lake's dislike of moshing. By Stephen Dark Corey Adams fell in love with the Avalon Theater four years ago.

As he waited inside the public safety building, watching for election results to come in, Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker heard a number of jokes about the broken elevators and leaky roofs in the rundown cop shop.

As city-dwellers across Utah go to the polls today, they will be electing the politicians closest to their neighborhoods - mayors and city council members.

Officer Gary Jason Burnham was awarded a Medal of Merit and received 10 commendations during his tenure with the South Salt Lake Police Department.

Political campaigning in this small industrial city has reached a fever pitch with wild allegations about misconduct by department heads and voter intimidation at public events.

Halloween is tomorrow and before the big night of fright we've got some tips to keep your kids costumes from going up in spoke and some tricks to keep swine flu from spreading.

Salt Lake City is one step closer to getting its new science, technology and art museum, The Leonardo.

A man has been charged with a felony for allegedly tethering his mentally disabled 14-year-old nephew to a couch while he went to work.

Poet and author Jimmy Santiago Baca will be at the Main City Library Auditorium Oct.

A flier that warns one mayoral candidate is "not good for your public safety." Threats that half South Salt Lake's Fire Department could disappear.