Grand County News

The House on Wednesday moved to allow a trade of some 40,000 acres of federal parcels in Utah with state trust lands to help unlock an ownership checkerboard.

Tammy Shumway faces probation in artifact-theft investigation. A defendant in a federal illegal-artifacts-trafficking case was released from jail late Tuesday.

A small piece of human skull that once intriuged investigators around the area is still an unsolved mystery.

The Utah Department of Public Safety Dive Team is being credited with helping to locate the body of a Colorado woman who was reported missing 7 years ago and is believed to be a homicide victim.

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PEMC will receive shares in BayHill for its interest in Cisco oil and gas property.

A federal investigation into the theft of more than 250 ancient Indian artifacts from public and tribal lands in the Four Corners area led to the indictment Wednesday of two dozen people, including three Colorado residents.

Search and rescue officers are looking for a Moab man missing after his canoe capsized on the Colorado River on Thursday morning.

The theft and sale of more than 250 American Indian artifacts from the Four Corners area led federal authorities today to announce charges against 24 people -- mostly Utahns -- today with a slew of felony and misdemeanor counts.

Heavy rains created flash flooding throughout southeastern Utah, keeping law enforcement and rescue personnel scrambling, and making for a muddy, messy and sometimes frightening weekend for residents and visitors to the Moab area.

The wet weather over the last two days impacted vacationers in southeastern Utah.

Authorities have recovered the body of an 18-year-old Arizona man who was presumed drowned in Mill Creek east of Moab, according to Grand County, Utah, officials.

The Grand County Sheriff's Office has identified Shanovan Miller, 18, of Round Rock, Ariz., as the man whose body was recovered Saturday at Power Dam east of Moab.

Authorities recovered the body of an 18-year-old man from Power Dam at Mill Creek in Grand County on Saturday afternoon.

The pay for part-time lawmakers in Utah doesn't get any better than it does in Salt Lake County, where council members overseeing the state's most populous metro area pocket more money than the Senate president and House speaker.

The first container loaded with radioactive waste from the old Atlas Mill in Moab was loaded onto a railcar on Monday.

Against the backdrop of the Colorado River, amid much fanfare, a celebration of the removal of the Moab tailings "pile" got under way Monday, featuring remarks by Gov.

With Moab in the background, two SUVs make their way down the Hell's Revenge jeep trail last month.

The legend of Moab's Matrimony Springs worked like a charm on Christy Williams. The resident of Castle Valley, a community of some 300 people northeast of Moab, moved to the area years ago and only intended to stick around for a short time.

Emery County is joining the fight against the lawsuit filed by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and other organizations against the Bureau of Land Management.