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The Kanab City Council meeting on June 14, started off strong with significant appointments to city positions. Norris Church and Oran Stovall have been appointed to the Beautification Board, and the city manager position has finally been filled as well; Kyler Ludwig will take up the position starting on July 5, 2022. Mayor Johnson said of Ludwig, “This was a tough decision. We had a lot of great candidates … but Kyler stood out.”

HURRICANE, Utah – Fire crews responded to a house fire Wednesday morning, leaving its residents displaced. According to Hurricane fire, a nearby construction worker noticed flames on the side of the house carport at 1029 W 1300 South around 7:23 a.m. The worker alerted the residents and helped them...

The Kanab Area Community Theater, under the direction of the Symphony of the Canyons, has cast its selected musical Hello! My Baby for a run of four performances, August 4, 5, 6 and 8, at the Kanab High School Auditorium. Kortney Stirland, the founding director of the symphony, now in its 40th year, has wielded the baton for the semi-annual community musical productions now for 38 years.

Texas 4000 for Cancer is a charity group fighting against cancer by sharing hope, knowledge and charity in hundreds of communities on their 4,000- mile journey across America. The Sierra Route team consisting of about 20 students from The University of Texas at Austin, pedaled their way through Kanab, on June 18, as part of the longest annual charity bike ride in the world.

(Kanab, UT) -- The Kane County Sheriff's Office is recommending the evacuation of homes and cabins in the area of the Left Fork Fire. The Sheriff's Office said yesterday that residents of the Bryce Woodlands Estates area near Kanab should leave after the wildfire escaped fire lines on the southwest side. Dixie National Forest also expanded road and trail closures in the area. The fire has grown to around three-thousand acres since it rekindled last weekend. Containment stands at 5-percent.

KANAB — The Kane County Sheriff's Office has recommended an evacuation of the Bryce Woodlands Estates in Kanab due to the Left Fork Fire that has burned over 3,000 acres. "Due to increased wind and fire behavior, the fire has crossed the fire lines on the southwest corner," Kane County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post. "Fire managers make this recommendation as a precaution for both firefighter and public safety if the fire continues to progress in that direction."

(Kanab, UT) — The Kane County Sheriff’s Office is recommending the evacuation of homes and cabins in the area of the Left Fork Fire. The Sheriff’s Office said yesterday that residents of the Bryce Woodlands Estates area near Kanab should leave after the wildfire escaped fire lines on the southwest side. Dixie National Forest also expanded road and trail closures in the area. The fire has grown to around three-thousand acres since it rekindled last weekend.

ST. GEORGE — Deputies arrested a man on Thursday after finding large amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine in after-market vehicle compartments during a traffic stop on Interstate 15. On Thursday, a Washington County sheriff's deputy was following a car that was traveling north on I-15 in the fast...

Back in 1984, Kortney Stirland was asked to put together a little symphony for a church event, no more than 20 or 25 people to accompany a production of “The Music Man”. Stirland said, “We had such a good time; we just wanted to keep it going.” And so, the Kanab Civic Orchestra was born … and many of those founding members are still going. As the orchestra grew, more and more people from outside of Kanab started volunteering, to the point that ‘Kanab Civic Orchestra’ became a bit of a misnomer; in 1999 they changed the group’s name to the one they’re known by today: The Symphony of the Canyons.