ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Biologists in southern Utah are surveying the damage left by a wildfire that scorched large swaths of land set aside for rare tortoise habitat in southern Utah. The Spectrum reports that on a recent day in late August, they fanned out on a landscape that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Dixie Center in southern Utah has announced it will keep its name despite previous considerations after voting to rebrand the convention center in June. KUER-FM reported that the center’s board voted 5-2 on Tuesday to keep the name, but incorporate the county’s Greater Zion […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The St. George area along the border between Utah and Arizona was inundated with flash floods after a torrential downpour. A large thunderstorm rained down more than an inch of water throughout the area. St. George Police Officer Tiffany Atkin told residents to stay inside […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Emergency officials say a wildfire has forced resident evacuations in two communities in the southwest corner of Utah. The Spectrum reported residents of Leeds and Harrisburg evacuated Sunday as emergency personnel fought the wildfire that spread across 4.7 square miles in Washington County. Authorities say […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A major Utah health care company says it will remove “Dixie” from the name of one of its hospitals. Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center, located in southern Utah, will be renamed Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital, effective in January. The decision comes as institutions throughout […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Firefighters are battling a wildfire in southern Utah that authorities say was sparked by illegal fireworks. The blaze north of St. George had grown to nearly 19 square miles and was 0% contained as of Wednesday afternoon. The Spectrum newspaper reports authorities are searching for […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Residents of a Utah city that has adopted a nickname with ties to the Confederacy held a rally to support the name. The Spectrum reports a crowd gathered in St. George Thursday to defend the use of Dixie as the community’s unofficial second name. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — A park official says a retired veteran and former state trooper from Nevada helped prevent a man from drowning in a Utah reservoir. KUTV-TV reported the veteran pulled the man from the water at Sand Hollow Reservoir. Sand Hollow State Park manager Jonathan Hunt […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A university in Utah is considering dropping “Dixie” from its name as another example of the nation’s reexamination of symbols associated with the Confederacy. Dixie State University has faced scrutiny in the past over the name’s association to slavery. It has resisted changing it because […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dozens of doctors, nurses and other health care workers and students knelt in support of anti-police brutality protests in Salt Lake City on Friday. About 100 people in Utah joined healthcare professionals around the country using the label White Coats for Black Lives to honor […]
