Monticello News

Lessons learned from a failed attempt to rebuild the La Sal Mountain Loop Road in 2001 were rehashed as officials from Grand and San Juan counties, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Federal Highway Administration, met last month to begin a process to repair the road before the cost of maintaining it gets out of hand.

Self-described cowboy Mike Noel, the Republican state representative from Kanab, has said he plans to introduce legislation next year that would have local cops, not the dreaded feds, enforce laws on public lands.

According to the National Weather Service, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year is 1-to-700,000. Those are numbers that mean absolutely nothing to C.J. Forrest.

Neighbors of the Moab Business Park at 11850 South U.S. 191 got a big surprise a couple of months ago when the park's owner, Kevin Carroll, broke ground on a new project - " he started digging a gravel pit right behind a number of homes and upwind of many more.

Kamas Police chief Adan Jones sets up a new "radar trailer" in one of the neighborhoods close to three schools in Kamas.

The San Juan County sheriff on Tuesday left open the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against federal agents he says used too much force during the June artifact raids.

The San Juan County sheriff on Tuesday left open the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against federal agents he says used too much force during the June artifact raids.

A young boy from Draper has died after the ATV he was riding crashed into a dump truck near Monticello.

Reporting from Blanding, Utah -- Shortly after sunrise last week, a squad of flak-jacketed federal agents surrounded the remote home of Dr.

Twenty-four people were named as criminal defendants Wednesday in the theft of archaeological and cultural artifacts from public and Indian lands in the Four Corners area.

Twenty-four people were named as criminal defendants Wednesday in the theft of archaeological and cultural artifacts from public and Indian lands in the Four Corners area.

Salt Lake's Wingpointe Golf Course is among four Utah golf courses ranked among the top 50 municipal golf courses in the nation by Golfweek magazine.

The last thing I expected when making cinnamon rolls for the first time was that I would succeed in round one.

A driver who last year ran a Utah Highway Patrol trooper off the road, then ran a red light in Monticello and killed two women was sentenced Monday to a $1,579 fine and 36 months probation.

A 7th District Court judge has ruled that mug shots of a man and woman booked into the San Juan County Jail are public records under Utah's open records statute.

Photo-essay of 21st annual "Kids Fishing Day" on Salem Pond, employees from the Utah DWR helps kids learn to fish.

The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been solved with the help of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and the National Geographic Society.