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.

National Weather Service forecasters have outdone themselves, offering predictions that extend clear into next year.

In looking back through this year’s news archives, it is clear that 2011 was eventful for Grand County.

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.

“I thought my room was like the Beverly Hills Hiltona it was too classy for me,” said Wendell J. Hathaway, a formerly homeless man who last year moved into a temporary housing facility for mentally ill and homeless individuals – the Willows – run by Four Corners Community Behavioral Health.

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.

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.

In early January, the Middle East and much of Europe were treated to a partial solar eclipse .

Here’s your Christmas weekend forecast, Utah: Partly cloudy skies, sunny and cold enough to frost Rudolph the Reindeer’s nose.

Employees from Williams Northwest Pipeline and the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration joined forces to cleanup approximately 60 tons of junk and debris near Blue Hill in San Juan County just outside of Moab.

The Ford F-150 SVT Raptor pickup emerged in 2007 as a desert runner, was recast as a Michigan mudder and then as a snowbird-slash-missile-site-transporter . For its fourth phase, Ford is positioning the long-travel-suspension pickup as a rock crawler.

Architect Terrall Budge of Design Workshop explains a conceptual map showing the different phases of the planned USU Moab campus.

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.

When Bill Thompson moved to Moab in 1989 with his wife and two small children, the town offered a “nice change of pace” from their previous lives in Los Angeles, Calif., he said.

A modest winter storm was to move into northern Utah Wednesday, bringing up to 3 inches of snow to the valleys and 6 inches or more to the mountains.

A Utah Park ranger who narrowly escaped death after surviving a Nov. 19, 2010, shooting at a trailhead near Moab has returned to work.

Storms continue to avoid Utah heading toward the weekend, and that’s a welcome forecast for outdoor recreationists favoring southeastern Utah’s snow-clogged mountains where an avalanche warning remained in effect well into Thursday.

After 10 years of living on the Mill Creek Parkway, Carey Jones said he feels like he has a new lease on life.

The mobile homes on this section of property on Williams Way will eventually be removed and replaced by a commercial development if the Moab City Council approves a request to rezone the property.

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.