Utah County News

The Utah State Office of Education will appoint two task forces to deal with problems disclosed in an audit of distance learning and online programs in Utah schools.

Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Cory Wride was shot and killed Thursday when he stopped to help what appeared to be a stranded motorist on state Route 73 in Eagle Mountain.

The vice chairman of the Utah County Republican Party has withdrawn his formal complaint against a party activist after a judge ruled he had slandered her and her attorney threatened to sue the whole party if the allegations against his client continued.

Tanner James, 19, of Provo, is the second Utah County musician to join Team Usher on season 6 of NBC's "The Voice."

In a 8-2 vote, members of the House Judiciary Committee opted to move SB112 forward for debate in the Utah House.

It's the end of the road for a bookmobile librarian in Millard County. He's delivered books all across the central Utah county for as long as anyone can remember.

The Senate voted Wednesday to rename the lonely stretch of highway where Utah County Sheriff's Sgt.

Under the cover of darkness on Aug. 13, Marine special operations forces will assault the Unified Fire Authority's training facility at about 4000 S. 8000 West, will secure or eliminate a threat identified in their scenario, and then will be whisked away in a couple of helicopters.

An inversion dirties the view of the city from 11th Avenue Park in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013.

Washington a President Barack Obama is proposing $5 million toward a construction project to bring water from the Wasatch Back to the populated areas in Salt Lake and Utah counties - a fourth of what the government spent two years ago.

Three times a week, a dozen or more yellow drums show up at Stericycle's North Salt Lake incinerator, where the contents are converted to smoke and ash for permanent disposal in the atmosphere and ground.

A police chase from Lehi to Sandy ended in a spectacular crash Monday when the fleeing vehicle hit a concrete divider and launched onto the bed of a pickup truck.

When Mason Lewis Bailey of Richfield heard in 2012 that the LDS Church would allow eligible young men to serve missions at age 18, he was elated.

A sex abuse case pending against Martin MacNeill, who was convicted of murder in the death of his wife, still remains on hold pending completion of a mental competency evaluation.

A judge ruled Monday that a teenage girl charged in the death of a Utah County sheriff's deputy and the shooting of another will continue to be held on $1 million cash-only bail.

The 'AAA' rating is based on the state's full faith and credit guarantee provided as credit enhancement to the district's GO bonds under the Utah School Bond Default Avoidance Program .

Ashleigh Cox died after she was caught in an avalanche in Utah on February 8 and stuck beneath snow for at least 20 minutes 911 records show a witness called dispatchers - who failed to alert the fire department that was nearest to the scene When the fire department were paged by another team 10 minutes later, the dispatcher said 'it was up to ... (more)

The lonely stretch of highway where Utah County Sheriff Sgt. Cory Wride was ambushed and murdered on Jan. 30 could soon be named in his honor.

Every 54 hours, an American law enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty.

Sen. Ralph Okerlund, R-Monroe, thinks such a shield is necessary for farmers, ranchers, dairies and other food producers who participate in a new state program to promote voluntary "environmental stewardship" on agricultural lands.