Chris Reed

IVINS — With a full auditorium that overflowed into another room, Ivins residents and their leaders discussed how to keep the water flowing in their city even with projections that within decades, there won’t be enough water for everyone in the city. The event at Rocky Vista University filled just about every seat of the […]

IVINS — In a meeting marked by compromises, the Ivins City Council approved additional funding Thursday night for a project underway to widen and improve Old Dixie Highway 91 through Ivins, while also approving a last-minute change in the project to avoid the properties of three homeowners. It also approved a rezoning of a little […]

ST. GEORGE — A deceased woman was found in the rear area of the Shell gas station on St. George Boulevard at the corner of 300 West on Wednesday morning. Police said they were treating the death as “suspicious.” St. George Police were alerted to a possible “cardiac arrest” at the gas station and mechanic […]

ST. GEORGE — Many of the hospitals in Southern Utah will soon be getting a different look – and much more fuchsia. In what officials say is a move to emphasize preventative care along with the care provided in its hospitals, like St. George Regional Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare officially took the “care” out of its […]

ST. GEORGE — A crash between two vehicles at the corner of St. George Boulevard and 700 East that hindered traffic on both streets Tuesday afternoon resulted in two citations for each driver who ran red lights, police said. St. George Police said the crash involved a dark gray Dodge Caravan with two women aboard […]

ST. GEORGE — In October, a jury in St. George found two men not guilty of burglary and trespassing for taking two piglets from a pork-producing facility in Beaver County on the grounds that the jury instructions said they couldn’t determine guilt if the animals had no value. And the jury determined because the animals […]

IVINS — It’s been a year in the making, but Ivins City Hall is about to get artsier. The city’s Arts Commission has selected six pieces from local artists that were approved by the Ivins City Council at its Jan. 5 meeting to be displayed throughout Ivins City Hall as part of the new Ivins […]

SANTA CLARA — At their regular meeting last Wednesday, the Santa Clara City Council made a refund and fixed the agreement for electricity customers with solar power and voted to search for a new water well. The council voted unanimously, 5-0, for both the moves on electricity and water detailed in a previous St. George […]

SANTA CLARA — Some solar power users in Santa Clara soon may receive a refund. During a Santa Clara City Council work meeting last Wednesday at Santa Clara Town Hall, the director of Santa Clara Power said a “mistake” in the documentation of the solar power policy created in 2016 caused the city to overcharge […]

IVINS — The Ivins City Council approved a proposal Thursday to make an extension of the Ivins Cemetery grassless and use desert, water-saving landscaping. By a 3-1 vote, with council member Adel Murphy absent because of illness, the council accepted the plan for an under-construction extension of the nearly-full cemetery to use so-called “water wise” […]

FEATURE — It was a year where the eyes of the world were sometimes focused on St. George and Southern Utah. Sometimes, it was because some of the biggest sports moments were happening here, whether it was by top triathletes or the youngest baseball players. In other moments, it was because of a trial over the […]

ST. GEORGE — With New Year’s Eve coming this Saturday night, the word party comes to mind for many. But with at least one company that specializes in short-term rentals, holding a party may not be as easy this year. Airbnb has announced it is putting restrictions on some guests booking one-night stays to host […]

ST. GEORGE — The developer of a planned mix of short-term and long-term residences on 113 acres won a motion to be added as a defendant in a case between a group of Ivins residents and their city. In a Tuesday afternoon hearing at the 5th District Courthouse in St. George, Judge Keith Barnes ruled […]

ST. GEORGE — The three teenagers seen in blackface makeup in a viral online video taken inside the Cedar City Walmart on Halloween are “definitively” not students at any Iron County school, Cedar City and Iron County School District officials said late Wednesday. At the same time, unfounded rumors continued to affect school switchboards both […]

ST. GEORGE — Scientists aren’t officially saying it was a meteor, but it was a meteor. A fireball lit up the sky throughout the region from Cedar City to Mesquite at 7:53 p.m. MDT on Monday night. Captured on some doorbell cameras, the meteor could be seen brightening and seemingly breaking up enough that many […]

ST. GEORGE — More than a month after he was injured falling off the top bunk of a bunk bed at the Little League World Series site, Snow Canyon Little League All-Star Easton Oliverson is out of the hospital and returned home to Southern Utah late Monday. At the same time, his parents have filed […]

SANTA CLARA — Southern Utah’s boys and girl of summer are coming home. The Snow Canyon Little League all-stars, who represented the Mountain Region as the first-ever representative of Utah in the Little League World Series, are expected to arrive home at St. George Regional Airport Wednesday afternoon. After that, Santa Clara city officials say they […]

ST. GEORGE — Nearly three weeks after the search for a missing Dammeron Valley man ended with the discovery that he had taken his own life, his mother is still grieving. But there is another word that would describe the feelings Spring Dykstrahas right now. Gratitude. Dykstra is still dealing with the sorrow from the […]

IVINS —A Dammeron Valley man who had been missing since Friday has been found dead of what deputies say is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Washington County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that deputies found the body of Tanner Marvel, 28, on Tuesday afternoon. St. George News has learned that Marvel’s 2010 white Ford F-150 pick-up was […]

IVINS — A petition signed by more than 150 Ivins residents is asking the city’s leaders to construct more pickleball courts. However, the head of Ivins’ parks said the space for additional courts is nearly non-existent at the city’s existing parks and it may be five years before the city adds additional park space that […]