Southern Utah

Search and rescue crew leaders from national parks across the West converged at Zion this week to share tips and tricks for how to keep people safe.

The slump in Utah park tourism comes as American politics and rhetoric keep many international visitors away. Locals around the parks are feeling the impact.

From Salt Lake City to St. George, communities statewide experienced their warmest winter on record. Snowpack, air quality and ski shops all took a hit.

Historic Black travel guides, like the Green Book, didn’t list many safe accommodation options in southwest Utah. The Zion National Park Lodge, however, was a rare refuge.

New data shows how the number of residents walking and biking around town keeps growing. And the southern Utah city plans to add even more miles in 2026.

The lawsuit argues the approval of the highway near St. George breaks multiple federal laws, including the act that established the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area.

A new plant that cleans and recycles more sewage is another big step toward stretching Washington County’s limited water supply. It highlights the massive effort and big money it’ll take to keep the St. George area growing in the desert.

The Milken Institute put southwest Utah’s largest city in its top spot for the first time. The ranking highlights St. George’s job growth and wage growth, both among the nation’s highest in recent years.

A plan to build a highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area near St. George is back. But public lands law experts from across the country question if the Trump administration is missing Congress's original intention.

The contentious highway would run through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area near St. George, a landscape that’s home to the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise.

For Garfield and Kane counties, the years since Grand Staircase-Escalante was established have seen large increases in populations and jobs.

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute has reduced its Washington County future population forecast. That could have ripple effects for southwest Utah’s water needs.