Carbon County News

Price Elks Lodge will host the event for Carbon County youth ages 17 years or younger on June 29.

More than 100 law enforcers, 24 canoes, cadaver dogs, a helicopter and rafts combed a 14-mile stretch of the Jordan River surplus canal Thursday looking for an 8-year-old boy presumed drowned three weeks ago.

While it may seem to many Carbon County residents that the general election last fall just finished, it's time for local candidates thinking about running for city offices to get ready to file to run in the November 2009 races.

With July 4th rapidly approaching and Pioneer Day following close on the national holiday's heels, fireworks stands have sprung up in Price.

Despite spotting celebrities year after year at an annual art show in Beverly Hill, Calif.

Severe thunderstorms pushed across northern Utah Sunday, bringing claps of thunder, flashes of lightning and torrents of hail that ranged in size from pennies to quarters.

Growing use of surveillance video cameras in Carbon County is allowing law enforcement to have an unblinking eye over nearly all incorporated areas, including Helper, Price, and East Carbon City .

A Michigan man died early Wednesday morning in a fatigue-related crash in Carbon County, police said.

In a short meeting on June 17, the Carbon County commission met to confront an assortment of business ranging from East Carbon's Community Daze, to issues surrounding the county drug court's polygraph tests.

The National Weather Service said partly sunny skies Sunday afternoon will likely be only a brief respite before a new band of wet weather moves into the Wasatch Front later in the day.

The local National Alliance on Mental Illness affiliate meets the third Monday of the month at 6 p.m. Bridges and family classes are Thursday at 6:45 p.m. Connection support group meets Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Sun Advocate office in Price.

Sunday was an unusual day in Price. That was the day no one within the city limits had any power for about four hours in the morning; that is unless they had their own way to generate electricity.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Utah State University President Stan Albrecht and USU Provost Ray Coward will visit the College of Eastern Utah campus in Price.

Libraries provide a wealth of information to the general public for free. While the merits of offering the institutions are often under debate, public libraries have seen a rise in patronage during the last year.

Over the years there have been many books and accounts published concerning the coal camps that existed in Carbon County in the years from the 1870's to the 1960's. Some of the books describe the coal camps from the authors points of view, while others take the tack that residents had about living in those little towns where coal was mined often by ...

Carbon County's Recreation and Transportation Special Service District met on June first to discuss and approve further actions on the the new senior citizen's center that is to be built on the old airport site by Fairgrounds road.

A bailiff showed up for court drunk. A state prison guard took scrap metal from the state Capitol renovation.

Ben Grimes set up a slide presentation in the Courthouse Canyon room about A. D. Ferron.

A woman was killed and another person hospitalized in a head-on collision involving two pickup trucks in Emery County Tuesday.

Carbon County commenced renovation of the Avalon House and Newhouse at symbolic groundbreaking ceremonies May 28 in Helper and Price.