ST. GEORGE — While league-leading Desert Hills had the night off, three other Region 10 girls basketball teams were able to pick up momentum with home victories Tuesday night as they continue to chase the Thunder. Hurricane held on to win an overtime thriller, Snow Canyon strongly defended its house and Pine View edged Dixie. […]

ST. GEORGE —Due to unprecedented low water conditions at Lake Powell, the Dangling Rope Marina will remain closed throughout 2022, according to a press release issued Friday by the National Park Service. In response to lowering lake levels, park and concessioner staff are removing marina components from the Dangling Rope location to ensure they do […]

CEDAR CITY — A traffic stop in Iron County on Saturday resulted in the arrest of all three of the vehicle’s occupants, including a passenger who had just completed a four-year stint in prison two days earlier. Booked into Iron County Jail early Sunday morning were California residents, Marquel Taylor Abraham, 23, Robert Anthony Ramos, […]

The Biden administration left open the possibility of creating a more targeted, permanent COVID vaccine mandate that may fare better in the courts.

ST. GEORGE — On their hike up Angels Landing in Zion National Park, Jessie Gariepy and Shane Wayment came across a teenage California condor known by state biologists and park officials as #1111. The juvenile bird is people-friendly, photogenic and lives off a nest cave north of the iconic sandstone hike. The Utah Division of […]

ST. GEORGE —Advocates say Utah has a shortage of qualified workers to deliver home and community-based services to people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Lawmakers at both the state and federal levels are debating measures to increase funding for both public and private care providers, but no action has been taken. Utah lawmakers heard a […]

The early reversal is being attributed to historically low levels of inventory and homebuyers trying to lock in mortgage rates before they go up.

CEDAR CITY — After being closed for nearly eight months, the Coal Creek Bridge in Cedar City is once again open to traffic. Following a brief ceremony at the newly reconstructed bridge Tuesday morning, Cedar City Mayor Garth Green, accompanied by other officials and representatives of the companies that worked on the project, snipped the […]

ST. GEORGE — On Jan. 10, students, faculty and staff began a new semester as instruction resumed at universities around the state of Utah – just in time for a nationwide surge both in COVID-19 transmission and hospitalizations attributed to the infectious omicron variant of the disease. Jon Anderson, Southern Utah University provost, said school […]

SALT LAKE CITY — University of Utah Health scientists are testing a new contraceptive gel for men. Based on preliminary research conducted elsewhere, the scientists believe the hormonal gel decreases a man’s sperm production – reducing his chances of fathering a child – without decreasing his sex drive. According to a press release from the […]