Escalante News

The Sagebrush Rebellion, a movement to assert more local and state control over western federal lands that began in Nevada in the 1970s, ebbs and flows.

Any doubt that remains found in the Utah wilderness were those of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, seemed to be erased by a battery of forensic and genetic tests a few months ago.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday that close to 700,000 acres of federal land in Western states including Utah will be set aside as Solar Energy Study Areas to be evaluated for their suitability for large-scale solar energy production.

ESCALANTE - A lightning storm on Saturday started the Bull Berry fire on the Escalante Ranger District.

A team of geneticists at the University of Colorado in Boulder this year compared 600,000 genetic markers to prove that a pile of bones found in a small crevice near Comb Ridge in southeast Utah belonged to artist and romantic vagabond Everett Ruess.

High school students from Oklahoma and their instructors walk a ridge Tuesday while exploring the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.

CEDAR CITY - Members of the Iron County Water Conservancy District voted in favor of the Utah Geological Survey's proposed study regarding the investigation of fissures located in and around Enoch during Thursday night's board meeting.

RUSSIA Land tour and river cruise Tour and photograph Moscow's most renowned places, including Red Square, on Ritz Tours' "Russian Waterways Excursion." Dates: Multiple departures through Sept.

Collet Top Arch on the Kaiparowitz Plateau is an amazing combination of ancient granary and pretty arch.

We're back in Southern Utah, rappelling and doing a little canyoneering with Excursions of Escalante.

More storms are in the forecast. See which day this week will be the wettest in Debbie Worthen's morning weather report.

Call 652-9434 for information in the St. George area. Alcoholics Anonymous All meetings are nonsmoking unless otherwise noted.

How to write about Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder without turning it into a love letter? I won't even try.

Susan B. Jordan, a prominent attorney who represented medical marijuana growers and former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, was killed Friday morning in a plane crash in Utah, according to her family.

The Boulder community is mourning the loss of one of its prominent citizens in a plane crash Friday morning.

Two people are dead following a plane crash in a remote part of Garfield County Friday.

Shea Russell compares her hand to the replica of a dinosaur foot on display by a vendor Friday at a paleontology symposium in St.

ST. GEORGE - Utah fire officials are predicting an average wildfire season for rural areas of southwestern Utah this year after reviewing weather forecasts and current fuel conditions, but they urge the public to be careful with fire to avoid any surprises.

Huntsman Goes to China Jon Huntsman Jr., U.S. ambassador to China. It may be a hit for the country, but it's difficult to imagine Utah won't miss him.

The Utah chapter of Sierra Club gave the 2009 General Legislative Session a passing grade when it comes to expanding development of renewable energy sources.