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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.
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“People aren't excited about places where there's a terrible lifestyle, where there's a terrible economy,” said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. “And the fact that Utah is changing tells me that we are doing things the right way.”