Summit County News

A spokesman for Utah's top elections officer says turnout for the June 24 primary election was abysmally low.

Bruce Larrabee has several day jobs. Larrabee, the Kimball Art Center's new executive director, has spent 25 years in Park City as a potter, art teacher, small-business owner and advocate for local artists.

A bear in Summit County is on the run after chasing away a group of campers this week.

Summit County officials underestimated the cost of a new health building at Quinn's Junction by nearly $5 million, County Engineer Derrick Radke said.

Somebody kicked in the door of this building that houses a well for Mountain Regional Water Special District near Summit Park.

A man who allegedly escaped from police custody July 8 was later nabbed by deputies in Woodland at the Diamond Bar X Ranch.

Searchers have found an Ohio hiker missing for nearly two days on the King's Peak trail in the Uinta Mountains.

Developers may face a fight trying to build a Walgreens at 4575 N. Silver Springs Drive.

Burglaries were discovered at many cabins in the Uinta Mountains east of Kamas in June.

Nobody was charged when a man fired a small-caliber handgun to deter two dogs from biting him at Jordanelle State Park.

With Park City area resorts planning to close after April 16, mountain hosts, liftees, and other seasonal workers wishing to stay in the Wasatch and Summit counties will be on the hunt for employment.

A public bus route between Salt Lake City and historic Park City could be a reality as early as April 2012.

The Utah Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Park City man who killed an acquaintance for giving him a "wedgie," according to court documents.

The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the 2005 manslaughter conviction of Erik Low in the Park City shooting death of Michael Hirschey, a decision that could force prosecutors to try the case a third time.

Voter turnout in Summit County in the primary election Tuesday was a dismal two percent.

Geology students scour the side of the road near Peoa two weeks ago as they map geological phenomena.

Summit County Commissioner Bob Richer doesn't expect a colleague to return from surgery until July 2 at the soonest.

Firefighters watched almost 250 acres burn Sunday in the Uinta Mountains east of Kamas.

Park City police officers arrested a man in a Main Street restaurant-bar Friday evening, shooting the man with pepper spray during a struggle that slightly injured the two officers.

Police covered an area stretching from Kamas to Oakley on Monday, the second day of the search for a missing autistic man.