Heber City meets with residents to discuss long-term downtown plans

The city council plans to jump back into a list of transportation ideas that it started considering last year. Potential strategies to combat growing gridlock include congestion pricing during peak times, a tunnel beneath SR-248, and expanding the Rail Trail to include aerial transit. The city recently received an $80,000...

Public transit in Wasatch County has grown quickly in popularity since it started last November. Now, the agency that runs it and local government are interested in providing more options. In almost three months, riders stepped onto the Heber City and Park City bus or rode on-demand microtransit shuttles in...

Heber City downtown is evolving. Could that mean taller buildings and a changed skyline?. Main Street, downtown neighborhoods and a recreation and tourism district are priorities in Heber City’s 30-year plan. Currently, buildings can be up to four stories tall. That became city law in October after the city...

Dakota Pacific submitted its downsized proposal last November, cutting back after the original plan garnered well-organized opposition. When the council considered the original redevelopment plan in Dec. 2021, a crowd of nearly 1,000 community members turned out in protest. Wednesday's meeting drew about 25 in-person attendees, still more than usually sit in on work sessions.

In the meantime, she’s offering great deals on remaining inventory and store furnishings. What started as a women’s shoe store on Valentine’s Day in 2003, grew to include menswear, children's clothing and small gift items. She’s also watched the boom of Main Street with its increasing rents,...

Dakota Pacific’s new plan for the land along Tech Center Dr. near the Skullcandy building is a slight downsize from its previous proposal that residents vehemently opposed in late 2021. The Salt Lake City-based firm now wants to build 727 housing units, 237 of which would be categorized as...

Rubell listed his Thaynes Canyon home for sale last week. Summit County records indicate he owns other property in Park City. City council members are required to live in city limits. Rubell didn’t respond to a request for comment Monday. In recent months he and White Pine Touring have...

Public transit and a sobriety program for DUI offenders are up for potential action in Wednesday’s Wasatch County Council meeting. On Wednesday, the Wasatch County Council is scheduled to consider a state program described as “24/7 Sobriety.”. It allows people convicted of driving under the influence to keep...

A mountain town community like Park City lives for an epic winter and consecutive storms like the ones this season. But so much snow can cause problems. Big ones. Mike Owens is fire marshal for Park City Fire District. He said one of the biggest risks is noxious gases getting inside homes from various outside vents which are usually above the snow. These vents are attached to appliances such as dryers, water heaters and furnaces.

Around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday the Park City Fire District and Park City Police responded to a water leak at the state liquor warehouse store on Sidewinder Dr. in Prospector. On arrival, firefighters discovered that the roof collapse. A Park City Fire District spokesperson said the heavy snow load on the...

The Park City Insitute announced Friday that the show "Lucy Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom" was rescheduled due to three of the performers testing positive for COVID-19. The show was scheduled for Saturday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m. A news release from the...

Locals might know him as Captain Wright, but around his office, he’s “Radar.”. Friends, family and colleagues gathered Thursday at the Summit County Library to celebrate Andrew Wright’s more than 16-year career at the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Justin Martinez spoke. “He takes up the...

A state council decided Wasatch County Sheriff Jared Rigby will not take a new job leading the agency that oversees Utah law enforcement standards. After nominating Rigby in November to be the next director of Peace Officer Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.), the P.O.S.T. Council decided Tuesday to find someone else to take the job.

Park City High School offers two avenues for its students to study journalism; online and on-camera. The online version is the school’s student-run newspaper called Park City Prospector. It produces articles including sports reports, feature articles such as students' favorite classes, opinion articles, and the monthly advice column Dear Isaiah.

On-Desk Talent: Drew Murry and Christian Bedke; Camera Operator: Martina Cavieres; Floor Director/Camera Operator: Oona Tuttle. The Miner Morning Show is a 10- to 15-minute twice-weekly student-produced news and information show. It airs at 9:09 a.m. on the PCHS Live YouTube channel. The show is the product of the high...

Winter conditions made for a chaotic early Sunday afternoon on Highway 40 near the Mayflower exit. A total of 10 cars crashed near the Mayflower exit on U.S. Highway 40 on Sunday a little after noon. It all happened within a span of 15 minutes, according to Utah Highway Patrol Sergeant Cameron Roden.

Over the weekend, police officers and a SWAT team arrested a man in Heber City after he barricaded himself in a home for a night. Heber City Police reported they got a call from potential domestic violence victims Saturday night around 11 p.m. The callers said they had left a home after an altercation with an intoxicated man escalated and he threatened them with a gun.

In his fourth X Games, Stevenson said he felt prepared and at ease as he rode through the freestyle skiing slopestyle contest Saturday in Aspen, Colorado. “I wasn't scared to do my run because I've done it so many times,” he said. “It was like the first event I can remember dropping in for [when] I wasn't nervous for my run. I wasn't scared of the tricks, and so I was able to just kind of lock in and just ride with a lot of confidence.”