Kanab News

CEDAR CITY - What could have been bad news for county correctional facilities housing state probationary and state parole inmates turned into a more cushioned fall, but local officials are not satisfied.

The Satanic Ritual Abuse conspiracy fad of the 1980s may have torn apart families, destroyed the lives of innumerable innocent people and set the credibility of clinical psychology back at least 50 years - but for fans of sleazy, poorly researched, exploitative true-crime books, it was a godsend.

Fewer people have lost jobs in the Intermountain West than elsewhere in the country, so with a holiday weekend ahead, AAA Travel figures Westerners are more likely to travel than anyone else.

A judge has ruled that a former Bureau of Land Management official charged with sex abuse of a child can continue to be represented by a public defender.

Model T enthusiasts roll through Zion National Park on Friday as part of a week-long rally in Kanab that ended on Friday.

The Book Cellar will host a celebration of local film history and culture. "Return to Little Hollywood" is a locally produced, CEBA/DSC documentary about a small town that made it big.

High school students from Oklahoma and their instructors walk a ridge Tuesday while exploring the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.

The Southwest Utah Public Health Department is offering an International Travel Clinic to residents in Washington, Iron, Kane, Beaver and Garfield counties who are planning trips outside the United States.

Southern Utah is amazingly beautiful. I took this picture through the window, while driving, not far from Kanab.

Afew years ago, I asked a good friend of mine, former Spectrum photo editor Nick Adams, what his secret was to hiring good people.

She wants to "do art for the rest of her days" and 64-year-old Maria Bardini is starting with a 14-ton brick of sandstone.

A Utah Department of Veterans' Affairs Outreach Program officer will be at the following locations at the dates and times indicated to assist veterans with disability claims and information about veterans' benefit programs.

Dixie State College English professor Stephen B. Armstrong is planning to debut a new documentary about the history of Utah's "Little Hollywood" this month.

Travel the roads surrounding this pretty southern Utah town and you can't help but feel that you've been here before.

As a kid I never understood how lucky I was to grow up in southwestern Utah. Nor did I comprehend my good fortune in having grandparents who lived in San Juan County on the other side of the state.

Lifelong St. George resident has seen her share of changes in nearly 100 years By KEVIN JENKINS kevin@thespectrum.com ST.

Matthew Van Mackelprang, age 28, returned to his Heavenly Father on May 26, 2009, at his home in Kanab, Utah.

Huntsman Goes to China Jon Huntsman Jr., U.S. ambassador to China. It may be a hit for the country, but it's difficult to imagine Utah won't miss him.

All highways are built to get drivers from one place to another, meaning that they connect the communities through which they run.

Photographs, recordings and other documentation of a weekend protest ride up southern Utah's off-limits Paria River have been referred to the U.S. attorney's office.