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A report from the data analysis company Stacker is showing that Iron County has the second-highest poverty rate in Utah. By looking at U.S. Census Bureau's five-year population estimates from the 2014 to 2018 American Community Survey, Stacker found that Iron County has a nearly 20-percent poverty rate, which is about 91-percent above the state poverty rate ...

Visit the 2020 Iron County Home Builders Association "Festival of Homes" with 12 beautiful entries in Cedar City, Summit, Enoch, New Harmony, & Cedar Highlands, including a special feature the Heather Hill Event Center. Come & experience "Your Safe Haven" with the latest in designs, interior decorating, & landscaping, with the best in furniture, cabinets, counterto

Several new fires were reported by Utah Fire Info. The Bench Fire is burning east of Cedar City near mile marker 64 of I-15. The freeway remained open, but due to smoke conditions traffic yesterday afternoon was being escorted through the area ...

A brush fire Sunday afternoon temporarily closed the Minersville Highway. The fire is burning in Iron and Beaver Counties and is currently being estimated at 50 plus acres. As of 6pm last night all roads have been reopened. The fire is human-caused ...

Two large wildfires continue to burn in Washington County and a large fire that started in Nevada is now burning in Iron County. The Turkey Farm Road fire has currently stands at 11,700 acres burned. That fire caused some homeowners in the Green Springs area to be evacuated for about 45 minutes ...

Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a missing 85-year-old man with dementia. Jack Haynes is described as a slim built 5 foot 10 inches tall man with blonde and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a brown baseball cap, blue long sleeved work shirt, jeans and tennis shoes. Pol ...

The damages from the record breaking number of fires over the holiday weekend is costing local counties a high price. Iron County officials say that the fires and suppression efforts from Fourth of July weekend is totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, which most of it will fall on taxpayers ...

Iron county officials are permitting the twice-rejected coronavirus "protest" Collin Raye concert as cases for the virus continue to surge across southwest Utah and the rest of the state. Iron County Commissioner, Paul Cozzens, says there will be enough space for people to social distance, but there will be no requirement to wear masks ...

The body of a 53-year-old man was recovered from Newcastle Reservoir Saturday morning. According to officials, the body was pulled from the water by several people recreating in the area. Deputies from the Iron County Sheriff's Department identified the man as a Utah resident ...

The Iron County Sheriff’s Office is resuming its search for a resident who went missing in October of last year.  The search will be conducted in the Three Peaks Recreation Area of Iron County.  The agency is asking for volunteers to help locate 71-year-old Carol Stratton who disappeared amid unseasonably cold weather in late October of 2019.  County offici ...