SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a woman was killed when a FrontRunner commuter train in metro Salt Lake City struck her car stopped on the tracks. Utah Transit Authority spokesman Carl Arky told KUTV-TV that surveillance video indicates the driver went around the lowered crossing arms and that the car […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah residents will be able to have free rides on public transit later this week. The Utah Transit Authority is waiving fares for public transportation on Thursday and Friday. KUTV in Salt Lake City reported Monday that the fare will be free for FrontRunner, TRAX and bus […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man was killed Wednesday when struck by a FrontRunner commuter train in Orem. The Utah Transit Authority says the man was struck by a northbound train near a station and resulted in northbound rail service delays during the tail end of the morning […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah County Commission and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert agreed to end their legal fight. The Deseret News reports the commission voted Monday to put forth a new nominee to the Utah Transit Authority’s new board. Herbert later Monday accepted the nomination, and county leaders promised to […]
NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) — A collision between a Utah Transit Authority train and a minivan disrupted passenger train service at a crossing in the Salt Lake City area Thursday morning. Media outlets report that the minivan’s driver was the only person in that vehicle and suffered only minor […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah police have arrested a man suspected of drunkenly firing gunshots that struck a public bus and a semitrailer. Authorities say 57-year-old Michael Hinckley was arrested Monday after he interrupted investigators searching a nearby peach orchard in the city of Fruit Orchard north of Salt […]
FRUIT HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — The Latest on gunfire hitting a public bus in Utah (all times local): 10:25 a.m. Police say they believe a public bus in Utah traveling on a highway was accidently hit by a bullet when someone fired shots from a nearby peach orchard, but authorities […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man called a city worker to his house, shot her in the head and set her body on fire after she mailed him notice to clean up his yard in suburban Salt Lake City, prosecutors said in charges filed Tuesday. Kevin W. Billings, […]
MIDVALE, Utah (AP) — Officials say as many as six people were injured in a multi-vehicle wreck involving Utah Transit Authority paratransit bus that ended up on its side on Interstate 15 in the Salt Lake City area. Authority spokesman Carl Arky tells the Deseret News the driver was the only person […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Transit Authority has been awarded a $2.6 million federal grant as part of a program intended to modernize and improve bus infrastructure across the country. The Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration announced a total of $264 million grants nationally on Thursday. The […]
