FEATURE — Growing up, the day after Thanksgiving was always a massive scramble at my home. My siblings and I, under the direction of my mom, unpacked what felt like hundreds of boxes filled to the brim with Christmas decorations to be placed in just about every room in the house, save maybe the laundry […]

ST. GEORGE — A small earthquake occurred Friday morning 6 miles west of Panguitch near the border of Garfield and Iron counties. The 3.0 magnitude earthquake was reported by the U.S. Geological Survey around 6:40 a.m. in an area along the Indian Hollow Trial. Shaking from a 3.0-scale quake is characterized by the USGS as […]

ST. GEORGE — St. George resident Wayne Erickson, at 77-years-old, has the distinction of being a cancer survivor with a black belt in karate. “I decided to go for the black belt, and right after that I found out I had cancer,” Erickson told St. George News. “Once I started the training, I didn’t want […]

A wise investment strategy, like a lot of things in life, requires patience, writes Dan Wyson.

FEATURE — Social science researchers and best-selling authors Neil Howe and William Strauss were among the first to track and qualify American generations. In their famous book, “Generations,” Strauss and Howe introduced the concepts of “Millenials” and “Gen-X” into the modern vocabulary. Their new generational theory attempted to explain various societal shifts in terms of […]

The mayors-elect of Moab, Torrey and Springdale weigh in with their priorities on tourism, the environment, the needs of national park gateway towns.

Intermountain Healthcare is seeing a “mirror image” of covid conditions from last year with other viruses appearing sooner. Read here to learn more.

ST. GEORGE – These days, it’s easy to say “Thanksgiving” in terms of the holiday known for family gatherings and turkeys overflowing with stuffing without really thinking about the name or reflecting on the meaning. But search for the “meaning of thanksgiving” on Google and the first return is “the expression of gratitude, especially to […]

ST. GEORGE — A house fire in Enoch displaced a grandmother and her grandson Wednesday. The blaze was reported at 6:40 p.m. at 4511 N. Marshal Trail. The home is a total loss, Cedar City Fire Chief Mike Phillips said. “The fire started in the garage and burned up through the attic of the roof […]

ST. GEORGE — While turkeys are more often associated with the dinner table this time of year, the Thanksgiving season is also an ideal time in Utah to see the waddled birds out in the wild. As the snowfall of winter begins in the mountains, the state’s wild turkeys move from the high country into […]