The Spectrum Online Edition - Fri Nov 27

Southern Utah's elected officials spoke up this week against a citizen's initiative designed to create an independent ethics commission and code of conduct for the Legislature.

Deseret News - Fri Nov 27

It's cold and flu season on southern Utah's Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, only it's not people who are sick - it the tortoises.

ScrippsNews - Fri Nov 27

In an effort to learn more about what biologists suspect is an upper respiratory tract disease, reserve officials got funding from the Washington County Commission to pay a veterinary pathologist to conduct necropsies on up to six sick tortoises.