Escalante News

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has yielded new fossilized treasures that a scientist says could help rewrite what is known about paleontology in North America.

I went up Mitchell Canyon looking for pinyon cones. There wasn't much of a cone crop this year and I didn't find what I was looking for.

Escalante motorcycle enthusiast Terry Tontlewicz walks along the soft and eroding shoulder by a cliff he passes on daily rides near the Calf Creek canyon.

Pssst. Want to know a secret? Southern Utah, that geologic and scenic wonderland, is dazzling in every season - but in autumn the annual invasion of sightseeing visitors from around the world drops to a trickle.

When God created southeastern Utah, he probably didn't have Conestoga wagons in mind.

NOTE; MANDATORY CREDIT Usage is conditioned on printing the following language below each image in type no smaller than 8 pt.: The Estate of Everett Ruess, Courtesy of EverettRuess.Net All Rights Reserved A skeleton found in the Utah wilderness last year was not that of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, despite initial forensic ...

A few months ago, the family of Everett Ruess, an idealistic young artist who vanished on a wilderness journey in 1934, was ready to accept his grim fate - that he had been killed by Indians.

In this photo provided by Beecher Films, Everett Ruess poses for famed Depression-Era photographer Dorothea Lange in 1933.

Nothing on TV, video or under glass can compare with a close-up, open-air view of historical and archaeological treasures.

One hundred years ago this month, two intrepid explorers returned from the Arctic reaches and declared that they had reached the North Pole.

By Doug Kreutz Published: 09.12.2009 The mystery of Everett Ruess a ' a legendary artist, writer and vagabond who vanished without a trace in 1934 a ' hovered over the rugged canyon country of Utah for nearly 75 years.

Another battle over local access to federal lands received a setback Tuesday with a federal court ruling that said Kane County had failed to prove its claims to disputed roads.

Doing art for public projects is a great honor, says Galina Perova, a Russian-born artist, who now lives and works in Salt Lake City.

The city of St. George's Energy Services Department has been recognized with a "Smart Energy Innovation Award" for its new solar farm.

Everett was last seen by a sheepherder near Escalante, Utah, on Nov. 19, 1934. Four months later, his burros were found southeast of Escalante in Davis Gulch, and in a nearby cave, where the wanderer made his last camp, searchers found his footprints and discarded food cans.

One hundred-thirty years ago, a group of Latter-day Saint pioneers did what many still call the impossible: They braved southern Utah's Hole in the Rock.

Even today the land in Utah's Four Corners region can be forbidding and treacherous.

One hundred-thirty years ago, a group of Latter-day Saint pioneers did what many still call the impossible: They braved southern Utah's Hole in the Rock.

Just exactly where does a 49-day, 725-mile hike across southern Utah begin? For greater Los Angeles resident Jamal Green, the adventure started nearly three decades ago at the Grand Canyon.

You have probably received cold calls about modifying your mortgage. I receive two or three every day, and have wondered how successful the operations are.