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Sunrise Stories for April 23, 2024. Fishermen can now cast their line on Pangutich Lake following this month's dam scare.

It's 7,086 miles from Caldwell, Idaho, to Offinso, Ghana. The African town lies on the south end of the huge African panhandle (can I call it that?) in the western part of the continent. That's how far Elder Brayden Call — a full-time missionary in the Ghana Kumasi Mission -- had to travel to his service area for his mission. In a w...

The date was April 22, 1974. It was about time to close the Hi-fi record and stereo shop in Ogden, Utah, with employees Stanley Walker, aged 20, and Michelle Ansley, aged 18, preparing to lock up and go home for the evening. Suddenly and without warning, two vans screeched up to the store and four armed men jumped out and entered the store. ...

St. George Town Square has received high marks as one of the best of its kind in the country in a USA Today ranking.

We've already had several notable fires in Southern Utah this spring, and there's no doubt more are on the way, with dry air and dry fuel in the region. Luckily, there has been little loss of property and no loss of life in the spate of fires we've seen so far...

Yesterday NASA admitted that there are thousands of pounds of space junk floating in orbit around our lovely planet. In the past 60 years or so there have been more than 6,000 space missions and in large part, those missions jettisoned their leftover "junk," things like used batteries, waste and broken industrial parts...

Even with a good water year like we've had, the Washington County Water Conservancy District is still offering rebate money if you remove grass turf and install desert-friendly landscaping in your yard (see the bullet points below). Having a large grassy lawn used to be a sign of wealth...

There's an update on the elderly couple that was found dead a couple of months ago in separate rooms in their house in American Fork, Utah. Authorities have ruled the deaths of an elderly American Fork couple whose bodies were found in their home this year as undetermined...

My how time flies -- it has been more than two years since St. George Police Department marksman Seth LeFevre was faced with the choice of a lifetime. Should I take the shot? OK, here's the situation (by the way, this is a real situation that happened in February of 2022): An armed man has carjacked a vehicle in Southern Utah and led police on a high-speed chase...

Southern Utah News: A juvenile in Mohave County was arrested for posting a threat on social media saying they were going to "shoot up the school."