Summit County News

Officials in the Summit County Courthouse have begun laying off employees as shrinking tax revenue has forced department heads to tighten their belts.

The Park Silly Sunday Market drew close to 90,000 people in 2009, but its future on Main Street is in jeopardy.

Courthouse officials have tapped a Wasatch Front-based lobbyist as they seek to improve Summit County's reputation on Utah's Capitol Hill.

Colorado's Copper Mountain ski resort is being sold to a Utah company. The Summit County resort's current owner - Vancouver, British Columbia-based Intrawest ULC - and the buyer - Park City, Utah-based Powdr Corp .

Police officer Jeremy Eaton emerges from Harry O's during a recent training session held by the Police Department.

Political races unofficially decided on Election Day did not overturn when votes were canvassed in Coalville and Kamas, the two largest cities on the East Side of Summit County.

There are still 10 full-time positions available at Jupiter Bowl, Summit County's first bowling center scheduled to open around Thanksgiving.

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, famous as Joe the plumber, is not scheduled to make a stop in Park City during an upcoming campaign swing through Utah on behalf of a Senate candidate.

Talisker recently purchased this 17-condo building on Black Rock Trail to be sold as affordable housing in the spring.

Three County Courthouse staffers would be laid off under a spending plan submitted to the Summit County Council this month, a striking acknowledgment that the county continues to suffer amid the recession.

Judgments against Crossways Corporation and its David Holland Resort Lodging have become routine in the Third District Court Small Claims Court.

Hundreds of people lined up Friday to receive the H1N1 vaccine at the Sheldon Richins Building at Kimball Junction.

Those who want to be immunized against the swine flu can attend a clinic Friday in the Snyderville Basin scheduled to begin at noon at the Sheldon Richins Building, 6505 N. Landmark Drive.

A Semi truck hauling a cattle trailer flipped over on I-80 Wednesday afternoon, causing the closure of some westbound lanes.

Incumbent mayors who were re-elected Tuesday in contested races in Kamas and Coalville will help shepherd the two largest towns on the East Side of Summit County through the next four years of growth.

Two women suffered minor injuries when the vehicle they were riding rolled over on Old Ranch Road and struck a house Oct.

A series of suspicious sightings at mink farms last week have deputies doing special patrols to keep ranchers on the East Side of Summit County safe.

City Hall has published a brochure describing property taxes within Park City, putting the brochure out as people are paying their annual tax bills.

Summit County deputies are asking for the public's help to identify a man who robbed a Park City pharmacy at gunpoint.

Officials in Summit County are bracing for what might happen if the military builds a resort hotel at the outskirts of Park City.