A portion of the Jordan River Parkway Trail is expected to be closed for several months while Salt Lake City officials work to address environmental and safety concerns. Deputy Chief Andrew Wright ...

With new projects to be completed this summer on the Jordan River, here’s what beginners — and returners — to the area need to be aware of when recreating on the waterway.

ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER (AP) — The Bible says Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. The river’s eastern bank, modern-day Jordan, and its western one both house baptismal sites, where rituals ...

WEST JORDAN — Work is getting underway again to give the Jordan River ecosystem a boost. Various entities gathered at the Big Bend Restoration Area on Friday to celebrate the beginning of a new ...

ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER (AP) — Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just briefly soaked her feet in the water where Jesus is said to ...

As featured on Jordan River, Jesus' baptism site, is today barely a trickle Symbolically and spiritually, the Jordan River in the Middle East is of mighty significance to many.

Posted: Aug 19, 2022 / 03:32 PM EDT Updated: Aug 19, 2022 / 03:32 PM EDT A cow crosses the Jordan River near Kibbutz Karkom in northern Israel on Saturday, July 30, 2022.

Dustin Wiberg, a park development project manager for Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation, points to a map showing the path of the Jordan River in 1937 and how it has changed since then. (Photo ...

It's a nod to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and the tensions between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews who live there. But what does it actually mean?

Tourists visit Al-Maghtas, known as Bethany Beyond the Jordan, on the east bank of the Jordan River in Jordan on June 8. UNESCO has declared Bethany Beyond the Jordan a World Heritage Site.

The 150-mile river, which flows through Lake Galilee and into the Dead Sea, has been diverted and degraded over the last 60 years. Environmentalists say Israel, Jordan and Syria are to blame.