Kane County News

Riding off-highway vehicles is a fun, easy way to experience the outdoors. But, when it comes to OHV use on Utah's arid public lands, it's easy to have too much of a good thing.

The conflict between motorized travel and quieter recreation isn't likely to subside any time soon in the Kanab region.

Five Mexican nationals - illegally living in the United States - were indicted Wednesday for alleged drug trafficking, cash smuggling and illegal possession of firearms.

Due to the high fire danger in Southern Utah, Color Country Interagency Fire Management officials will implement fire restrictions beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday on all public lands and unincorporated state and ...

The Town Council passed a resolution last week expressing its intention to research and implement a new sewage treatment system there, in anticipation of working with an Illinois-based company that develops ...

People move to Southern Utah for a number of reasons: the beauty of the area, the enticement of a job, the region's warm temperatures or the presence of friends or relatives living here.

Water authorities in Iron County say they are struggling with a fundamental problem in the Cedar Valley - more water is being used every year than nature can replace.

If Utah had an Achilles' heel it would have to be the massive underfunded Southwest Utah Public Health Department.

Kane County tourism director "Cowboy Ted" Hallisey still has a job, but he's not sure for how long.

Tests confirming the existence of West Nile Virus have been obtained this week from a mosquito population trapped in Washington County.

West Nile virus has been detected in Salt Lake County, less than a week after Kane County reported a crow had tested positive for the virus.

It used to be Glen Gubler's job to go find water to soak the bluegrass sod that small-town Utahns unfurled on the Mojave Desert.

A dead crow in southern Utah had West Nile virus, the state's first confirmation in 2008.

ENOCH - Southwest Utah Public Health Director Dr. David Blodget received notification Wednesday afternoon during his presentation to the Iron County Coordinating Council held in Enoch that the first ...

St. George Historic St. George Live! tours will be at 9 and 10:30 a.m. through Saturday at the Pioneer Opera House plaza, 200 North and Main Street.

Kane County tourism director "Cowboy Ted" Hallisey said he believes county commissioners are planning to fire him from his job of nearly five years because he is a Democrat.

What part of "no" doesn't Kane County understand? Last year, U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins told the county: No, you cannot lay claim to any trail or roadway through federal land simply by telling the Bureau ...

Officials in Kane County investigate the death of a 67-year-old Arizona man who was killed Tuesday morning when his Harley-Davidson motorcycle ran into the back of a vehicle five miles north of Kanab.

State Rep. Mike Noel says a federal judge's ruling demanding that Kane County take down signs in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is potentially devastating to Utah and the state will appeal the ...

U.S. District Court Judge Tena Campbell ruled Monday against claims by Kane County, Utah for county ownership of 39 roads in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.