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CEDAR CITY — A Cedar City man accused of shooting another man during a suspected road rage incident on Wednesday afternoon is facing multiple felony charges. Jason Bryan Stolworthy, 46, was booked into Iron County Jail on Wednesday evening. According to a probable cause statement filed with 5th District Court, he faces one count of […]

CEDAR CITY — Officials recently celebrated the grand opening of Savage’s new transload facility, which will provide transload services between trucks and railcars, on-site storage for shippers, and direct access to Union Pacific Railroad. Joining Savage company officials at the grand opening ceremony on Friday morning were elected officials from Iron County and Cedar City, […]

FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — Love is in the air, and wedding season is upon us. Like many elder millennials, I grew up watching sitcoms in the 1980s and ‘90s. Whenever those series needed a ratings boost, they would feature a wedding. Those special episodes taught me that weddings usually involve young lovebirds: think Elvin and […]

WASHINGTON CITY — Brian and Liz Baker have been self-admitted sky watchers for over six decades. But around noon on Sunday, they saw something in the skies above Washington Fields they say they have never seen: a band of prism colors. At first, they thought they saw a sun dog – a refraction of light […]

CEDAR CITY — One man was arrested and another man was hospitalized following an alleged road rage shooting Wednesday afternoon. “We received a report of an alleged road rage situation involving a motorcyclist and a vehicle,” Cedar City Police Chief Darin Adams told Cedar City News at the scene on Fiddlers Canyon Road, a short […]

View our evening newscast for Wednesday, June 12, in the video player above, then read the full stories below. Full story links: Desert tortoise mural in downtown St. George has ‘a story to tell’ Hurricane approves water rate increase; academy business license revoked Homeowners claim the Halfway Wash project ‘far exceeds’ what St. George city […]

It might seem counterintuitive, but back-to-back winters with above-average snowfall has officials worried that this summer could bring large and dangerous wildfires to Utah. That’s because a healthy snowpack leads to more vegetation — now, with what has been an abnormally hot and dry spring, that vegetation is drying out, making it prime kindling for […]

ST. GEORGE — Utah’s Office of the Medical Examiner has identified the remains found near Duck Creek in Kane County as those of Courtney Lynne Townsend, who was last seen six months ago. Kane County Sheriff Tracy Glover confirmed to St. George News on Wednesday that identification was made possible from both evidence collected at […]

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