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Big issues like water conservation and infrastructure dominated this year’s State of the City address from St. George Mayor Michele Randall and some residents want to see leaders take more action.
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No surprise, many new Washington County residents are former Californians or older snowbirds — or both!
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St. George hopes to get money to build the tower from the state budget during the upcoming legislative session.
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Students from Hawthorne, Mary W. Jackson, M. Lynn Bennion and Riley Elementary will find new schools and boundaries will be redrawn.
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Washington County wants to take what it learned in the first year of its turf replacement rebate program and double that number in 2024.
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The district is proposing closing Hawthorne, M. Lynn Bennion, Mary W. Jackson and Riley elementaries.
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The plan to build a new highway through a conservation area near St. George has taken a step back. The Bureau of Land Management is revisiting its formal analysis of the road’s environmental impact after a lawsuit from conservation groups.
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The projections say Washington County will need a lot more housing as its population expands. But after years of increases, the number of new residential units fell this year.
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More and more Utahns are having fewer and fewer babies.
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Utah, Washington, Cache, Davis and Wasatch counties can expect to add more than 4,000 school-age children each by 2060, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
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Washington County is running out of water to support its rapid growth. But a new plan charts a path for reusing and conserving enough water to get by for the next 20 years.
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Across the Southwest, aging infrastructure and shrinking water supplies are driving an increase in water costs.