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Iron County Search and Rescue Volunteers responded to an alert of dehydrated and exhausted male hiker who had been out with his dog. Volunteers rolled out around 5PM Tuesday evening. The hiker was on a trail located at the top of Cedar Mountain off of Highway 14 near the gypsum mine...

(Cedar City, UT)  --  Iron County Metro SWAT officers have arrested a 38-year-old man after his girlfriend was allegedly shot in the back with a rifle last week. A probable cause statement filed Friday says James Cox was arrested early Wednesday after police got a call from Beryl about a woman shot in her lower back. Cox has ...

CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC4/ KDXU) – Iron County has one of the oldest jail facilities in the state, according to Sheriff Ken Carpenter and he says they’ve outgrown it. County leaders have finally narrowed down the construction site to four possible locations in their latest public hearing, but it’s been in the works for several years, according to Sheriff Carpenter. He says his i ...

A black bear was set free last week after being caught illegally in a snare. The bear was caught in the area of the Upper Basin on Cedar Mountain. Law officials are now asking the public for any information that could help them identify the person or people involved with this incident ...

On 07-27-2020 at approximately 15:30 hours, a Cedar city woman was running the Thunderbird Garden trail when she was attacked by a man. The 18-year-old female told Sheriff detectives she parked her vehicle at the Thunderbird Garden trailhead parking lot just east of the golf course and begun running eastbound on the Ghost Flats trail ...