SOUTHERN UTAH — Surrounded by towering red cliffs and jet-black lava beds, the breathtaking setting of Black Desert Resort is soon to be Southern Utah’s premier destination for championship golf, world-class hospitality and exhilarating adventure. Black Desert lies at the heart of three significant geographical convergences: the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin and the Mojave […]
ST. GEORGE — The state of Utah leads the country in enrollment growth, according to a study by Michael Dinich, a personal finance journalist and CEO/founder of Wealth of Geeks. Supporting this fact is recent data from the Utah System of Higher Education, which indicates a 2.05% average increase in enrollment across its technical colleges, […]
Picturesque Selva is the gateway to the Tramuntana mountain range, a Unesco World Heritage site. Far from the bustle of coastal resorts, this is an administrative hub for the outlying Caimari, Binibona, Moscari and Biniamar villages, all of them steeped in tradition and folklore. Selva’s picture-postcard stone houses and narrow streets are set in a […]
ST. GEORGE — Today with smartphones and the internet, it’s hard to imagine a time when the world wasn’t at our fingertips. Yet it was not that long ago when it took days to get news outside our hometowns, or when we might have used a barbed wire fence to make a telephone call if […]
OREGON – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is delaying a series of town halls he was scheduled to hold in Southern Oregon this week. According to Wyden’s office, the senator is stuck in Washington D.C. and will be unable to attend the original town hall dates on Tuesday and Wednesday. Senator Wyden was planning to […]
ST. GEORGE — The Utah Board of Higher Education recently approved a series of tuition and fee adjustments across the state’s public colleges and universities. After a review, the board agreed to a 3.3% average tuition increase, which was lower than the initial estimates. In Southern Utah, Utah Tech University’s tuition will go up 3.82%, […]
New York City is suffering a retail catastrophe, with 11.2% of storefronts empty — nearly twice the 6% of 2019.
A small earthquake has shaken the Southern California desert near where the Coachella music festival is being held this weekend
The mayor of a town in southern France says that he wants to introduce a curfew that would ban minors from being outside without an adult at night.
ST. GEORGE — Higher elevations in Southern Utah could be in for 18 more hours of winter. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory, which will run from 6 a.m. Friday through 6 p.m. Saturday for the Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs, Central Mountains and Southern Mountains. Snow is expected above 8,000 feet in […]
Malaysia is scrambling to save its $100 billion city of the future. Forest City, the brainchild of China’s troubled property giant Country Garden, located in southern Malaysia’s Johor has Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar as one of its major stakeholders. Billed as a paradise with turtles and white-sand beaches, Forest City aimed at housing 700,000 people across 7,000 acres on four reclaimed islands upon completion in 2035. But many years into construction, the joint venture between Country Garden and a...
OPINION — The St. George metropolitan area is one of the fastest growing regions in the country. Explosive population growth combined with the impacts of climate change, extended mega-drought and dwindling water supplies mandate that we fully optimize our water management practices, especially here in the dry desert country of Washington County. The Washington County […]