Southwest Utah Bureau

Oil and gas production is picking up in Utah. The resurgence comes as the price of crude oil recovers after it hit a record low last spring and after an energy leasing ban on public lands was enacted earlier this year.

St. George is known as a desert tourism hotspot and a retirement destination, but business and city leaders are hoping to rebrand it as a tech hub. To do that, they want to turn the 180 acres around a shuttered airport into a multi-use community.

Gene Shawcroft, Utah’s newest Upper Colorado River Commissioner, will be in charge of renegotiating rights to the river. KUER’s Lexi Peery spoke with him about how the state is preparing for talks related to the river.

Garfield is a small rural county, and one in every 13 people there have tested positive for COVID-19. Much like the rest of Utah, the pandemic has shuttered their typical way of life. Now that the vaccine has arrived though, residents in the county are hopeful.

No schools have shut down in Washington County School District because of COVID-19 outbreaks. But district officials said students coming to school sick — not just with COVID-19 — is impacting staff.

Engineers at a uranium mill in San Juan County have figured out how to produce a concentrate of rare earth elements from domestic ore. But environmentalists say the development could further delay reclamation of the mill, which has outlived its purpose.

The comment period for the Northern Corridor closes Thursday at midnight. One aspect of Washington County’s preferred plan would set aside nearly 7,000 acres of land as protected tortoise habitat to make up for the proposed highway cutting through the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. It’s a popular recreation spot, and some people are concerned about the area changing.

The Dixie Center will be keeping its name after all. The center’s board voted Tuesday to keep it, even though in June they decided to consider a name change.

Across Utah, homes and lots are expensive, and that’s pushing some young people to continually rent. That’s the case in Boulder, Utah, and one couple is…

A local state of emergency has been declared in St. George because of flooding and damage from a storm that battered the city Sunday night.

St. George named a new chief of police — Kyle Whitehead.

Students in Washington County returned to school Thursday, making them the first to go back in Utah since buildings closed in mid-March.It looks different…