Utah County News

The Utah Transportation Commission on Friday unveiled the next highway projects it plans to fund - including rebuilding a key stretch of Interstate 215 in Salt Lake County, improving the "spaghetti bowl" interchange, and converting more stretches of Bangerter Highway into true freeway.

Established in Lehi in November 2012, the Outlets at Traverse Mountain have become a well-known fixture in Utah County.

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By 2050, Utah is expected to nearly double its population - adding 2.5 million people to its current 2.9 million, with two-thirds coming from "natural growth" through its high birth rate and a third from immigration.

But it may still be awhile before any of the outstanding questions surrounding the bizarre and horrific case of Megan Huntsman, 39, are answered.

A Springville Republican appears headed for a spot on the Utah County Commission, despite having several bankruptcies and a theft conviction on his record, which he says stemmed from a pair of auto accidents, a divorce and a misunderstanding with a former employer.

Utah elections officials say they don't know who in recent weeks mailed legislative endorsements and attacks purporting to represent a nonprofit group.

Jenson's lawyer hopes to show his client was singled out and prosecuted in retaliation for bucking the alleged "pay-to-play" scheme at the heart of the Swallow scandal.

Provo a Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Cory Wride's dashboard camera played in the tiny courtroom Wednesday, showing what appeared to be a routine motorist assist.

KISS may have been on the cover of the April 10 issue of Rolling Stone, but the most eye-opening headline - at least for those in Utah - was the one on Gene Simmons' right thigh that proclaimed: "Gay, Mormon & Finally Out."

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah woman accused of concealing seven pregnancies before strangling or suffocating her newborns gave birth each time in her home, authorities said Wednesday.

A Utah County woman involved in a head-on collision a year ago will have to wait a little longer to find out what will happen to the impaired driver who pleaded guilty in connection with the crash.

Sam Edwards picks up trash as volunteers join Utah County, Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration employees, and private landowners for a massive seven-day cleanup in the Lake Mountain area located south of Saratoga Springs and west of Utah Lake Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

A judge is limiting television and photographic coverage of a preliminary hearing for a 17-year-old Draper girl charged as an accomplice in a January shooting spree that resulted in the death of one police officer and the wounding of another.

A lunar eclipse took place Tuesday. The entire event was to be visible from North and South America, but sky watchers in northern and eastern Europe, eastern Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia were out of luck, according to US space agency NASA.

The discovery of seven dead babies in cardboard boxes in a Utah garage has police desperately seeking answers from the mother and other family members about how such a tragedy unfolded over a decade with no one noticing.

A woman in Utah was charged for killing six of her seven newborn babies then putting their dead bodies in cardboard boxes.

Police and emergency responders weren't sure how the fire started near 500 West and 2100 South in Lehi, but they began actively fighting it around 2 p.m. A fire engine and two brush units were dispatched to the area and crews from Lehi, Saratoga Springs and Utah County worked on the fire, according to Lehi City spokesperson, Robert Ranc.

The discovery of seven dead babies in cardboard boxes in a Utah garage has police desperately seeking answers from the mother and other family members about how such a tragedy unfolded over a decade with no one noticing.

There's a college town noted for launching a number of highly acclaimed alternative bands, where the downtown is stocked with local fresh eateries, and just off campus you can find the sort of hot dog and burrito dives that students salivate over.