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Sunrise Stories for April 23, 2024. Fishermen can now cast their line on Pangutich Lake following this month's dam scare.

It's 7,086 miles from Caldwell, Idaho, to Offinso, Ghana. The African town lies on the south end of the huge African panhandle (can I call it that?) in the western part of the continent. That's how far Elder Brayden Call — a full-time missionary in the Ghana Kumasi Mission -- had to travel to his service area for his mission. In a w...

The date was April 22, 1974. It was about time to close the Hi-fi record and stereo shop in Ogden, Utah, with employees Stanley Walker, aged 20, and Michelle Ansley, aged 18, preparing to lock up and go home for the evening. Suddenly and without warning, two vans screeched up to the store and four armed men jumped out and entered the store. ...

We've already had several notable fires in Southern Utah this spring, and there's no doubt more are on the way, with dry air and dry fuel in the region. Luckily, there has been little loss of property and no loss of life in the spate of fires we've seen so far...

Yesterday NASA admitted that there are thousands of pounds of space junk floating in orbit around our lovely planet. In the past 60 years or so there have been more than 6,000 space missions and in large part, those missions jettisoned their leftover "junk," things like used batteries, waste and broken industrial parts...

Southern Utah! listen, soda is good and all, but we have far too many soda and snack shops in Southern Utah. It's ridiculous when you look at it all on paper.

outhern Utah is host to MANY annoying creepy crawlies, but there is one pest that reigns supreme both in the creepy and annoying categories.

There's an update on the elderly couple that was found dead a couple of months ago in separate rooms in their house in American Fork, Utah. Authorities have ruled the deaths of an elderly American Fork couple whose bodies were found in their home this year as undetermined...

Even with a good water year like we've had, the Washington County Water Conservancy District is still offering rebate money if you remove grass turf and install desert-friendly landscaping in your yard (see the bullet points below). Having a large grassy lawn used to be a sign of wealth...

St. George Town Square has received high marks as one of the best of its kind in the country in a USA Today ranking.