Mitch Shaw

OGDEN — Utah Department of Transportation officials say they will bend their own rules to help those impacted by the Ogden Canyon waterline project. As Ogden city continues work to replace the 100-year-old waterline that meanders through the canyon, nightly road closures, delays, water shutdowns and plenty of congestion on the narrow arterial have inconvenienced Ogden Valley businesses and residents for much of the past five months.

OGDEN — Work will start this week on a housing development that city officials say will help change the face of the east-central area of downtown Ogden.

OGDEN — Representatives from Ogden’s Get Out and Live Foundation are on high alert after two explosions occurred near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday.

The GOAL Foundation coordinates high-profile Ogden outdoor events, including the Zions Bank Ogden Marathon, which serves as a qualifying race for the Boston Marathon.

Jenny Scothern, executive director of the GOAL Foundation, said she watched news of the marathon with a heavy heart and a worried mind.

OGDEN — A public hearing on the 24th Street Interchange project has been pushed back a month.

The Utah Department of Transportation and Ogden city have been working on an environmental analysis of an “action alternative” that would put a full Interstate 15 interchange at 24th Street.

The action alternative includes improvements to other surface streets west of the freeway near the potential interchange.

OGDEN — A new restaurant is headed for The Junction on an underutilized piece of property near Ogden’s Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, the latest step in the city’s ongoing effort to fill vacant space in the downtown area.

The Ogden Redevelopment Agency voted Tuesday night to approve a site plan for a new teppanyaki-style restaurant that will be at 2250 S. Washington Blvd. Teppanyaki is a style of Japanese cuisine that uses an iron griddle to cook food.

The restaurant will be a single-story building with column bases and will be made of a limestone material. It will be owned and operated by Yu King Long, who had previously purchased the 10,500-square-foot lot for the restaurant from Ogden city for about $200,000.

CLEARFIELD — Despite winterlike weather conditions across much of the Top of Utah, spring is here, and that means work on local roads is starting to ramp up.

Phase 1 of the $70 million State Road 193 project in Clearfield has started between Center and Main streets, and the work brings with it some major impacts to the travelling public.

SR 193 will be extended from State Street on 700 South in Clearfield, then around the Freeport Center to 200 South and then west to 2000 West in Syracuse.

Beginning today, Main Street through Clearfield will close indefinitely everywhere north of 700 South. Utah Department of Transportation spokesman Vic Saunders said the north end of south Main Street will eventually be turned into a cul-de-sac to make way for a new overpass.