St. George Airport to close tonight

The St. George airport serves more than 200,000 commercial passengers a year. The airport will close for four months to let crews rip up and rebuild a runway undermined by unstable blue clay. St. George Regional Airport manager Rich Stehmeier talking with Andy on the Andy Griffin show calls the $25.8 million reconstruction project the "Big Fix." So why does it have to be redone?

It'll be mostly paid for with Federal Aviation Administration and federal infrastructure funds. Plans call for digging 17 feet beneath the more than 1-mile-long runway and installing more stable material. The airport will close tonight at midnight.