Moab

MOAB -- The high-risk sport of swinging wildly on ropes through canyon and arch openings in southern Utah has left a second man dead in little more than a month.

MOAB -- Troopers are investigating whether a medical episode or cellphone use contributed to the death of a 92-year-old driver in Moab.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah is set to get $900,000 in federal funds for the construction of a pathway to connect Moab to surrounding national parks and public lands in the eastern part of the state.

SALT LAKE CITY — Louis Williams cringes every time he tells Moab visitors the name of the canyon with the great hike to a stunning arch: Negro Bill Canyon.

Williams, a window cleaner who has lived in Moab for 14 years, is leading a renewed campaign to change the name of the Southern Utah canyon that he and others believe is inappropriate.

He has posted an online petition that has garnered more than 600 signatures and plans to submit a formal renaming application to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names.

MOAB — Federal land managers’ proposal to offer up to 28 parcels of public land for potential oil and gas leasing at a February auction is stirring protests from some Grand County residents.

MOAB — Utah authorities say nobody was seriously injured when a Colorado River tour boat with 30 people aboard ran aground on a sandbar.

MOAB — Authorities are searching for a 21-year-old Texas man who fell into the Colorado River during a trip with University of Texas at El Paso geology students.