Southern Utah News

Canyon View Middle School is on lockdown just one day after Canyon View Highschool also experienced a threat.   According to the Cedar City Police Facebook Page, the high school was on lockdown after a bomb threat on Thursday. Police rushed to the scene with a K-9 unit and the school was cleared. The...

Easter in only a few weeks away and Utah Tech University is preparing early.  The universities annual Trailblazer Nation Spring Fest is back and bigger than ever according to a press release. This year will have the largest egg hunt the event has ever had.   ...

Utah Tech University to welcome “cowboy writer” for a reading on campus.   A UT press release said Rod Miller, a Utah native, will be at the campus on April 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Zion Room. Miller is a four-time Winner of the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award. He is the author of d...

January 14, 2005 was a day that will never be forgotten in Southern Utah. And though it was 18 years ago, many folks who live in Washington County now and also lived here back then are noticing similarities to the two times. In 2005, it was a snowy winter in the mountains above St...

Approval for a new Utah flag passed fairly easily through the Utah House of Representatives and the Utah Senate. The Senate passed the law for the new flag with a vote of 19-9, while the Utah House was much closer on the vote at 40-35. While the general public acceptance of the new flag was favorable, there are those who feel the flag re-design was motivated by greed and completely unnecessary...

It seems like it kind of slid under the radar here in St. George, but a ruling was made in court late last week to sentence the man who caused the death of two young and vibrant human beings last April. John Brett Sartor, who had a blood-alcohol content of ...

The National Park Service closed the trails due to raptor nesting season.

The police department releasing a detailed timeline into what happened at the school.

Police say the former student pointed a gun at four other students, and physically assaulted another.

The controversy stems from a memo regarding sick time.