Saratoga Springs News

There won't be a sequel to last year's home assessment sticker shock. Utah County is sending out tax notices on Friday, and unlike last year's 25-percent leap, this year is nearly a wash.

You'll see plenty of junk food and Mountain Dew at the Salt Palace for the second day of the GEEX expo.

Rising oil prices have put a damper not only on the family vacation and personal budgets but also on, of all things, the family garbage can.

Saratoga Springs police say a former fast food restaurant employee who reported being robbed at knife point was the real hamburglar in the case.

A former employee of a Saratoga Springs Arctic Circle restaurant has been arrested for faking an armed robbery and stealing the fast food restaurant's bank deposit.

Planners predicted it, but not this way - not this fast. Yet new urbanism - punctuated by a rush on downtown Salt Lake City - is sweeping a swath of northern Utah, a place long defined by suburban flight.

Twelve years ago, being one-road towns wasn't a problem for Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain, which had just a few hundred people between them.

A fleet of shiny new police trucks and SUVs stands in the parking lot and four pristine police bikes in the basement.

Strawberry Days is this week. One of the oldest city celebrations in Utah County, Strawberry Days takes its name from the strawberry fields that historically made up a large portion of the city's economy.

Benjamin will start its summer celebration Thursday with a flag-raising at 5 p.m. This marks the 122nd anniversary of the first LDS ward established in Benjamin, a southern Utah County town.

An open house for the Radio Control Airplane Show presented by the Utah Valley Aero Modelers Club will be Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at the RC Model Port.

Jeremy Duda - DAILY HERALD A corrections officer is facing a felony theft charge after allegedly taking a cash-stuffed wallet he found at a grocery store.

Caleb Warnock - DAILY HERALD For the first time, a black person has become the presumptive nominee of a major party for president of the United States, and locals are speaking out about what Barack Obama's ...

In the year and a half since voters approved millions of dollars in bonds for projects in Alpine School District, buildings are up, but students are still crowded and learning in portable classrooms.

This time of year happens to by mating season for snakes. Experts say the snakes can be more aggressive during this time and that people need to take precaution.

An Eagle Mountain man faces possible charges of aggravated assault for chasing and hitting a motorcyclist, then "jumping" him after the motorcycle crashed.

Police say a 30-year-old Utah State Prison parolee has admitted that he committed a string of art robberies and is helping investigators with efforts to recover the missing work.

"Touching the hand of God." Two art gallery owners are reunited with paintings worth tens of thousands of dollars.

The public will get a chance on Monday to see the inside of the county's new jail expansion while officials are finally seeing a way out of a frustrating project.

It was like a punch in the gut. About 4,000 fans, crowded inside the EnergySolutions Arena, gasped in disappointment Wednesday night as David Cook was handed the "American Idol" crown, beating Murray teen David ...