Authorities say all eight persons aboard a twin-engine airplane were likely killed when it crashed near Utah's Canyonlands National Park. The Friday night crash came after a fire was reported to the Grand County Sheriff's Department about 6 p.m., Salt Lake City's KTVX-TV reported Saturday.

By Mark Danenhauer Unbelievable. That is the first word that comes to my mind when I think of how fortunate we are to live in a state blessed by so many natural wonders. Utah is home to Zion, Bryce and Arches national parks, red-rock worlds, towering mountains and incredible world- famous rivers.

Labyrinth Canyon of the Green River corridor is a marvelous place on the northern edge of Canyonlands National Park. Twisting its way below colorful 1,000-foot cliffs, it is a premier national canoeing and boating destination. Ancient Indian rock art can be found.

By STORY AND PHOTOS BY SANDY NELSON The Colorado Plateau Seven thousand feet above the Colorado River, the windshield of a single-propellor Cessna reduces millions of acres of sandstone wilderness to a fluid, rectangular canvas.

MOAB, Utah _ What am I getting into, I muttered, as a summer storm crashed across the desert with thunder so deafening, I had to plug my ears. I was at the orientation for a river-rafting trip, a five-day journey down the wild and remote Colorado River in the southern Utah desert.