Kane County News

Some people might think Big Water is a backwater. The streets of this tiny southern Utah town weren't even paved until 2002.

At first blush, the proposal to build a nuclear power plant on the Green River was a cockamamie concoction that ignored Utah's shrinking water resources, sensitive vegetation and wildlife, and the state's grieveous experience with radioactive uranium, waste storage and weapons testing.

St. George The Southwest Utah Public Health Department Board of Health meets today at 10 a.m. at 620 S. 400 East.

State regulators have given approval for a surface coal mine on private lands in southern Utah.

After more than a decade of discussion, Kane County is on the verge of building a new jail.

Alanna Farnsworth had no one to talk to when her son told her he was gay. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Farnsworth wanted to discuss this new development with other LDS parents of children who had come out as gay.

Sometimes when errors occur they are not the responsibility of the messenger. Other times they are.

Alexander James Bybee was 16 years old in 1996 when he murdered a 6-year-old boy -- his cousin by virtue of a polygamous relationship -- and hid the body in a shallow grave in the southern Utah community of Big Water in Kane County.

Some have claimed that Salt Creek in Canyonlands National Park is a road. Photo by Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance A split ruling this week by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerning off-road vehicle access to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument , the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area , and other public lands in southern ...

Kane County had no authority to remove signs that restricted off-highway vehicle use and post their own signs inviting that use, says a ruling by a federal appeals court in Denver.

Kane county health officials are warning against a serious infection that has already been detected in cats.

Health officials in southwestern Utah are asking people to avoid stray cats or handling dead animals after two cases of a bacterial infection called tularemia were detected in felines in Kane County.

Kane county health officials are warning against a serious infection that has already been detected in cats.

Kane County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Tracy Glover said 'The boy ... was standing in center field behind second base when he was hit by a line drive off a bat in the torso, possibly the chest, and dropped to the field,' according to a press release.

Authorities are trying to determine what exactly killed a 15-year-old Kane County boy who was hit with a baseball.

A Kane County family lost their oldest child Wednesday night after he was hit by a ball at baseball practice and died.

A sophomore at Valley High School was killed in Orderville when he was hit in the torso with a baseball while practicing for the school's team.

He's a businessman, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, and chair of the Utah Liquor Commission.

An Arizona woman died early Saturday morning after she fell asleep while driving, police said.

Fewer people have lost jobs in the Intermountain West than elsewhere in the country, so with a holiday weekend ahead, AAA Travel figures Westerners are more likely to travel than anyone else.