Grand County 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.

A Lehi woman suffered injuries to her face and eye Friday in an all-terrain vehicle accident.

The Housing Authority of Southeastern Utah now has a new, interim director, officials with the agency told the Grand County Council on Tuesday.

The council voted 5-1 to recommend that the Essential Air Service Division of U.S. Department of Transportation renew its contract with Great Lakes for another two years.

Man arrested for assault Police arrested a Moab man Oct. 28 after receiving a report of a domestic dispute on Kane Creek Blvd.

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An application to develop an open-air dinosaur tracks museum on property at the corner of U.S. 191 and state Route 313 was tabled earlier this month by the Grand County Planning and Zoning Commission.

A worker employed by Envirocon suffered breaks of both tibia and fibula in his left leg last week when a roll of plastic sheeting fell on him while he was working at the Atlas uranium mill tailings cleanup site north of Moab, according to Department of Energy spokesperson Wendee Ryan.

Voters in Moab, Castle Valley and Grand County on Tuesday roundly defeated a voted leeway measure that would have raised about $1.6 million annually for Grand County schools.

An airplane landed bottom side up after a problem with take-off near the Green River Sunday.

An Idaho man died while mountain biking in Moab on Friday, police said. Todd Johnston, 42, of Ketchum, was on the Gold Bar Rim Trail when he complained of being tired and told his friends he wanted to walk his bike, Grand County sheriff's deputies said in a news release.

Two Grand Junction men are recovering after a rig fire and explosion in Grand County, Utah Thursday.

A Moab volunteer teacher and softball coach who served three years in prison for allegedly sexually abusing a 14-year-old student before the Utah Supreme Court overturned her convictions accepted a plea deal involving one count of forcible sodomy.

The Grand County Planning and Zoning Commission last week rebuffed a staff recommendation to recommend approval of a conditional use permit application for Westwater Farms to the Grand County Council.

A Roosevelt man who killed three people in a 2004 drunken-driving crash while on probation for his fourth DUI conviction attended his first parole hearing Tuesday.

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Grand County Utah Sheriff Deputies made a traffic stop that ended in a major heroin bust Thursday.

A former FBI witness turned serial killer pleaded guilty this afternoon. He admitted to killing four people including his uncle.

The Grand County Council has gone on record opposing the transfer of water rights from the San Juan County Water Conservancy District to a proposed nuclear power plant in Green River.

Nearly 17 percent of Utah would become federally designated wilderness under a New York congressman's proposal that will get a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.