Evan Clapper News Today

The Grand County Commission does not seem to have violated the Open and Public Meetings Act when a quorum of commissioners attended a May 25 open house regarding the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission’s possible move to the Red Cliffs Foundation. The Grand County Commission hit quorum at a May 25 open house but

National park managers, government officials and local businesses make changes to rein in the negative impacts of tourism on national parks. Read more.

On April 1, Utah State University will hold a ribbon-cutting for its new Moab campus. The event will include a tour, an opportunity to contribute to a USU Moab Community

The Utah School and Institutional Trust Administration hopes to conduct a large-scale land swap with the federal government, exchanging SITLA parcels within the recently designated Bears Ears National Monument for

A Bureau of Land Management planning process to review the agency’s travel management plan in the Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges area has again drawn out conflicting perspectives in Grand County on

The Grand County Commission hopes to select the final boundaries of new county commissioner districts by mid-December. At a Nov. 30 workshop, commissioners narrowed map options down to two possible

Grand County Commissioners and community leaders are working on a proposal for a public lands bill they hope will be considered by Congress in the next few years.

Commission discusses HDHO, noise pollution The March 2 Grand County Commission meeting included deep discussions of two issues paramount to many residents: the high density housing overlay and excessive vehicle noise in residential areas. The commission also discussed new bylaws for the planning commission. At their last meeting, the commission tabled a vote on a set of “rules and regulations” meant to clarify certain aspects of the county’s high density housing overlay policy. T...

Rally on the Rocks Grand County’s ongoing conflict with local UTV event Rally on the Rocks continues. RotR organizers, after anticipating a denial of their application for a permit to hold their event at the Old Spanish Trail Arena in Grand County in 2021, plan to move the vendor expo portion of the rally to a location just over the county line to San Juan County, while continuing to use the same trails as in past years. Many of those trails are within Grand County, though on land managed ...