That most-beloved of all holidays, Valentine’s Day, looms on the horizon. This year, forget the flowers and the chocolates.

A proposal to build an open-air dinosaur museum and park north of Moab is back on track, developers said Tuesday night.

Members of the local community are invited to participate in the search for a new Grand County School District superintendent to replace Margaret Hopkin, who announced her upcoming retirement last week.

The Moab City Council this week directed city staff to begin drafting a resolution that would support a nationwide movement aimed at ensuring that corporations are not treated as individuals and that money does not constitute free speech.

OK, let’s not call it “Snowacalypse.” But Utah is in for a major winter storm as it moves toward the weekend.

With the state’s approval of plans for water to operate a proposed nuclear plant just outside Green River, Utah, the developer cleared a major hurdle.

The citrus-based chemical that a Canadian company plans to use to strip oil from eastern Utah tar sands will leave tailings that could leach cancer-causing compounds into the groundwater, a University of Utah scientist warns.

Torti joined the university in 2003 as a research assistant professor in biology and is currently the associate director of the University of Utah Rio Mesa Center, a research and education center near Moab.

Do not buy this Jeep! Nope, don’t do it! Do NOT buy this vehicle if you never intend to go off road.

We recently went off the beaten path with a Ford F-150 SVT Raptor in Moab, Utah to test the 2012 model’s improved off-road chops.

Utah is weary of waiting for federal funds to complete a heralded swap of recreational lands near Moab in exchange for energy swaths in the Uinta Basin, so state school trust officials plan to start paying appraisers themselves to seal the deal.

Northern Utah was in for not one but two “commuter specials” in the coming days as a major winter storm moved into the region.

A partly cloudy and dry weekend for northern Utah will give way on Martin Luther King Day to morning and afternoon snow showers, the National Weather Service says.

Multiple weapons and bags of marijuana were seized from a vehicle during a traffic stop over the holidays, Grand County Sheriff’s Office officials said.

Utah‘s mid-week forecast calls for partly cloudy and near-freezing daytime high temperatures in the north, while the state’s southern reaches will bask in sunny but windy weather with highs in the 50s.

Biologist Jayne Belnap warns of the consequences for the American West if we don’t preserve a home for the minute organisms that live in desert topsoil Research focus: Study of the biological crusts that hold in place desert dust and their ecological impact on human activities One fine afternoon last may, Jayne Belnap drove north out of Moab, Utah, … (more)

Heavier-than-expected snowfall covered much of Utah Saturday as the first blow of a two-fisted storm system struck the region.

SALT LAKE CITY – What we’re about to tell you may make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

Grand County Council members voted 6-0 at their Jan. 3 meeting to approve an agreement with Moab city for joint planning and funding of improvements for the south corridor.

The issue of homelessness affects most communities across the globe. Every day, millions of Americans, including some in Grand County, wander the streets, sleep on benches or in makeshift camps, and struggle to survive without many of life’s basic necessities.

Every September for what will be 20 years this summer, the Moab Music Festival presents chamber music in the stunning red rock canyon country of Moab.

We make it a point to try to drive everything offered in the world of pickup trucks, as well as vehicles that work like pickup trucks.

No snow on the forecast horizon, above-normal temperatures and mostly clear skies above: it’s difficult to believe Utah is in the depths of winter.

A joint service project involving Williams Northwest Pipeline company and the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration resulted in the removal of an estimated 60 tons of junk and debris piled near Blue Hill in San Juan County outside of Moab.

Partway through a 10-day ski trip to Utah in the winter of 1979-80, Brookfield, Wis.-native Joan Campbell Arata decided she was moving here.