A competitor, the Utah County Democrat, was founded in 1898 and renamed the Provo Herald in 1909.

[2] In February 2009, the Daily Herald announced it would discontinue five weekly papers that had covered northern Utah County: the American Fork Citizen, Pleasant Grove Review, Lehi Free Press, Lone Peak Press and Orem Times.

However, by January 2011, it announced that it would entirely discontinue the weekly newspapers that covered southern Utah County (Springville Herald, Spanish Fork Press, and Nebo Reporter) and incorporate their content into daily publication of the Daily Herald.

[12] By April 2013, the online editions of all the northern Utah County publications, except the American Fork Citizen have been discontinued.

However, an online edition of The Pyramid (Mount Pleasant in Sanpete County) is also published.