Toquerville News

If you plan to hit the road this Memorial Day weekend, the Utah Department of Transportation urges you to plan ahead - and take into account several construction-related road closures and restrictions.

A transient California man who police say abandoned his teenaged son at the Provo airport two weeks before holding his two other children hostage during a freeway standoff in southern Utah has been sentenced to jail.

The summer solstice still weeks away, the summer wildfire season has begun early and in earnest.

Ski season ended early this year. And the same climatological factors that led to an early shutdown for the lifts also mean that the wildfire season is beginning early, too.

The wet water year of 2011, followed by the current dry one, could lead to more wildfires than normal this summer in Utah.