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FEATURE — Add long-lasting beauty and pollinator appeal to your garden with this year’s Perennial Plant of the Year, Jeana garden phlox (Phlox paniculata ‘Jeana’). Selected for its tall sturdy habit and fragrant dense flower heads it is a welcome addition to perennial, meadow and pollinator gardens as well as mixed borders. Grow this perennial […]

CEDAR CITY — Firefighters were called out to two fires at midday Friday involving a shipping container and a radio-controlled car in a kitchen. Cedar City firefighters were first called out around noon to a fire in the kitchen of an apartment at the Libertad housing complex on North Novi Hills Drive. But Cedar City […]

ST. GEORGE —Business owners and staff sparkled in formal attire Thursday evening at the largest Best of Southern Utah gala on record.Around 600 people attended the event hosted by Canyon Media and St. George News, with Dixie Power as the title sponsor at the Dixie Center. “We are excited to be able to celebrate your […]

ST. GEORGE — Piles of lumber, tractors, workers walking around in hard hats – welcome to Southern Utah. The area’s growth is seemingly unstoppable, with new buildings and renovations springing up everywhere you look. In this episode of “What’s Going There,” Southern Utah’s show about developments and businesses in the works, Tom Callister with Linx […]

ST. GEORGE — Access from northbound Interstate 15 into Leeds at Exit 22 has been closed due to a downed power line. According to the Leeds Town Facebook page, a vehicle accident in the area damaged a power line and Rocky Mountain Power has initiated an outage from 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. so work […]

View our evening newscast for Friday, June 7, in the video player above, then read the full stories below. Full story links: Driver charged in ATV crash that killed his wife on Cedar Mountain ‘Is this your song?’ Cedar High School graduate tunes in to nostalgia, releases song of remembrance Voter guide for 2024 Republican […]

ST. GEORGE — A brush fire that started near Rockville Friday afternoon at approximately 3:30 p.m. and resulted in the closure of state Route 9, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. Eastbound SR-9 closed at milepost 28 (Rockville) and westbound at milepost 30 (Zion Park Boulevard). UDOT officials originally projected the road may be […]

ST. GEORGE — A brush fire that started near Rockville Friday afternoon at approximately 3:30 p.m. and resulted in the closure of state Route 9, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. Eastbound SR-9 closed at milepost 28 (Rockville) and westbound at milepost 30 (Zion Park Boulevard). UDOT officials originally projected the road may be […]

ST. GEORGE — Effective at 12:01 a.m. MDT on Saturday, June 8, fire restrictions will be implemented in Zion Canyon. Restrictions include no smoking near vegetation or building campfires in Watchman Campground. According to a news release issued by park officials Friday morning, restrictions will stay in effect until lifted by the park superintendent. “One […]

ST. GEORGE — The primary election is fast approaching with mail-in ballots beginning to arrive in the mail. In races on the federal level impacting southwest Utah, four Republicans are vying to be the GOP candidate on the November ballot to replace outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney. In Utah’s 2nd Congressional District, incumbent Rep. Celeste Maloy […]