Moab

When a trailer park housing low-income residents went up for sale in downtown Moab, local elected officials worried it would get bulldozed for a new hotel. So, the city bought it. That was three years ago, and Moab is still working to develop affordable apartments on the site.

The Grand County Commission says it should be put into a district with northern San Juan County, but some officials there think the areas are too different.

The latest Utah news from Thursday morning, Oct. 7, 2021.

Moab is split into two state House districts. Now lawmakers can decide if they want to put the city into one.

The latest Utah news from Tuesday evening, Sept. 28, 2021.

Tourists are visiting national parks and surrounding public lands in record numbers this summer, which is causing some overwhelmed national park gateway towns to rethink their promotion strategies.

Moab residents gathered Monday night at a local bookstore to read pieces they wrote about the Pack Creek Fire. It has scorched almost 9,000 acres in the nearby La Sal Mountains.

Moab passed a new noise ordinance Tuesday night to deal with all-terrain vehicles, and Grand County passed one last week. Off-roading groups are already pushing back against the new limits, which they say are too restrictive.

The latest Utah news from Wednesday evening, April 28, 2021.

Having stable income, safe housing and social support have greater combined impacts on a person’s health than any individual behavior, according to the World Health Organization. Addressing these social determinants of health in Utah is a priority of Gov. Spencer Cox’s administration, and the focus of a free health clinic in rural Moab, Utah.

Recent studies found there’s likely less water in Moab’s aquifer than previously thought. Now, the tightening water supply has led to a reckoning over the consequences of development and the virtues of conservation.

An effort to regulate all-terrain vehicles in Moab was killed by the Utah Legislature last week, but people on both sides of the issue say the fight isn’t over.