The trail that runs alongside the Jordan River Parkway will be closed at 7500 South Thursday and Friday for construction of the Jordan River TRAX bridge. The trail is expected to reopen with a temporary detour, which will be in effect through August 2009, according to the Utah Transit Authority.

By Sara Israelsen-Hartley Deseret News LINDON -- With the price of gas creeping higher and higher, the city of Lindon is striving to become more bike- and foot-traffic friendly.

By Tom Wharton, The Salt Lake Tribune May 12--When Coral Coffey moved to Salt Lake City from Merced, Calif., in 1963 and began looking for a place to live, she wanted to be near a river. The only river in the valley was the sometimes-maligned Jordan. That didn't matter.

By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret News MURRAY -- Adriaan Boogaard is the kind of river fiend who's more comfortable finding his way through the marshes and reeds of the Jordan River than the neighborhoods growing around it.

By Derek P. Jensen, The Salt Lake Tribune Jan. 18--It has all the accouterments of a 19th-century European setting: a three-story mansion boasting elegant spindle archways framed by rusticated stonework and resting on an acre with a carriage house out back.