The Kanab City Council chambers were full on the evening of October 14, with some poignant items on the agenda. Following the opening procedures, including a public comment period which went unused by the public, the agenda began in earnest with a pair of employee recognition presentations. The first presentation was dedicated to Officer Trevan Harris. Officer Harris was the first officer on scene to an accident on September 11, 2025, and by providing emergency aid in the for

The federal government remains in a partial shutdown more than two weeks after funding expired at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2025, with no breakthrough yet in congressional negotiations to reopen agencies. United States Capital Roughly 750,000 federal employees continue to face furloughs or work without pay as lawmakers remain divided over spending levels and health care subsidies. The impasse has halted or slowed operations across multiple agencies, delaying economic data r

An Ace Hardware store is moving forward in Kanab following city approval of a site plan for a 26,000-square-foot building at 850 South Highway 89A. The project, reviewed by the Kanab Planning and Zoning Commission on May 6, 2025, will include 87 parking spaces, new access points to the highway, and adjustments to meet city lighting and fire safety standards. Image via Google Maps According to city records, the property is zoned commercial and sits north of the Lofts apartment

On September 25, 2025, Fredonia Elementary School’s first and second-grade students welcomed special guests from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Kanab, Utah, for an exciting and educational presentation about how landforms are shaped by nature. Two students construct their own model mountains out of marshmallows and cream. The marshmallows represented layers of land, and the whipped cream held them together. Once completed, students were invited to blow as hard

I spent much of the past forty years researching historic events. Recently, I set out to study lesser- known actors who worked in the early movie industry in Kanab. The earliest documented moving picture shot in Kanab was the 1924 silent film, The Deadwood Coach. The movie starred cowboy heartthrob Tom Mix heading up a cast of over a dozen actors and actresses. The film was made in the Kanab area, including locations in Zion National Park and Cedar City, and undoubtedly was n

Michael Anthony Schoenfeld grew up in Kanab from the age of four, after starting life in Prescott, Ariz. He went to college in Cedar earning a degree in Mathematics, moved to Phoenix securing a job as a programmer. From there he went into software, met his wife, they moved to Cincinnati, to be closer to her family and back to programming. Then on to Indianapolis, Tony summarized, “Mainly I was a software engineer for 30 years, it was very high pressure. We would work 60-hour

Cartoonist Brian Crane continues to prove that humor, like love, only gets better with age. His long-running comic strip “Pickles,” which joined the Southern Utah News lineup in 2022, remains a reader favorite for its mix of warmth, wit and the small joys of daily life. Pickles creator Brian Crane at home in his studio in Sparks, Nev. Photo courtesy of picklescomic.com Created from Crane’s home studio in Sparks, Nevada, “Pickles” follows Earl and Opal Pickles, a retired coupl