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Around 300 locals gathered at the Utah Olympic Park to celebrate the start of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Many were excited to see the parade of nations featuring Utah and Park City-based athletes.
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Jacquelyn Martin/APIn an explosive crash near the top of the downhill course in Cortina, Vonn landed a jump perpendicular to the slope and tumbled to a stop shortly below. -
Spenser Heaps/Utah News DispatchSignature gatherers have just over a week to get a petition to repeal Proposition 4 on the ballot this November. Clerks in Summit and Wasatch counties are verifying dozens of packets of signatures.
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A Feb. 10 public hearing on the residential development is cancelled. -
The Park City Council plans to put child care support into its annual budget. The decision is part of efforts to provide a sustainable funding source. -
At just 19 years old, Parkite Josie Johnson is a rising star on the U.S. ski jumping team. She's competing in her first Olympics this winter.
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Park City High School’s head football coach Josh Montzingo has resigned from his position on the team Friday, effective immediately. -
Alex Cooper will film “The Unwell Winter Games” in Park City this month, featuring Olympic-like competitions between celebrities, athletes and internet personalities. -
Two documentary projects from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City have been picked up by major distributors. -
A 3.5 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Utah Thursday, the second felt in two weeks. The tremors come as experts remap the state to better understand local fault lines. -
Heber City police detained a teen for allegedly assaulting someone supporting President Trump at a student-led Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest Thursday.
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"The Americans are proposing the parties end the war by the beginning of this summer," Zelenskyy said, speaking to reporters on Friday. -
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. -
A patient who came to regret the top surgery she got as a teen won a $2 million malpractice suit. Then, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons clarified its position that surgery is not recommended for transgender minors.
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