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A Utah company plans to dig a series of underground caverns that it hopes to one day fill with compressed air, releasing it to generate electricity by turning a turbine and solving one of the most vexing problems facing the clean-energy industry — how to store power.
New court papers indicate the undercover operative in a federal bust of artifact trading doesn't have a criminal record, wasn't promised leniency and is still being paid for his services.
When auditors looked at an oil-and-gas royalty trust set up by Congress to benefit Utah's Navajo Indians, they found $50 million had disappeared or was squandered on bribes, bad business deals and payoffs.
The government auction of a Utah fraud suspect's car collection will include some fakes.
An agreement to protect a Utah canyon decorated by ancient American Indian art is expected to allow energy development in the area to move forward.
The Utah Supreme Court ruled Friday that a company fighting to build a coal-fired power plant in central Utah will have to try to obtain a pollution permit anew.
The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that a company fighting to build a coal-fired power plant in central Utah has to obtain a pollution permit all over again.
The federal government has acknowledged it never prosecuted anyone who failed to pay a bid for drilling rights in Utah until a college student offered his bogus bids in an act of environmental defiance.
Utah regulators hurried a decision to issue a strip mine permit after the coal operator complained to Gov. Gary Herbert that they were taking too long, according to a memo written by a state official.
Defense lawyers for a college student who disrupted the auction of oil and gas drilling leases on land around some of Utah's national parks outlined in court papers Monday a plan to put global warming on trial instead of their client.
Closing Utah state offices on Fridays has delivered an unexpected bonus: a big saving on overtime pay.
A few months ago, the family of Everett Ruess, an idealistic young artist who vanished on a wilderness journey in 1934, was ready to accept his grim fate — that he had been killed by Indians.
Closing Utah state offices on Fridays has delivered an unexpected bonus: big savings on overtime pay.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of President George Bush to favor oil companies in oil-shale leasing.
The phase-out of the space shuttle program brought 550 layoffs on Tuesday to a Utah company that makes the booster rockets.
The Utah father of Elizabeth Smart said he's horrified by the parallels between the latest abduction story to grip the nation and his own daughter's long journey with an alleged kidnapper.
A mechanical failure forced a NASA contractor on Thursday to call off the first test firing of the main part of NASA's powerful new moon rocket.
Judges have begun approving payouts from a multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from the collapse two years ago of a Utah mine that entombed six miners and led to three rescuers' deaths.
A major Southwest dealer is surrendering a vast personal collection of ancient artifacts in another break in the federal investigation of looting and grave robbing in the Four Corners region.
Brian Wixom's company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only to never put a rig in the ground.
Federal authorities in charge of the nation's biggest bust of artifact looting and grave-robbing are targeting more suspects ranging from those who do the digging to wealthy buyers in the lucrative black market of ancient Southwest relics.
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Tuesday alleging a law firm arranged thousands of fraudulent visas for foreign workers at Utah companies.
A federal appeals board has cleared the way for oil and gas drilling around prehistoric ruins in southern Utah.
Any doubt that remains found in the Utah wilderness were those of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, seemed to be erased by a battery of forensic and genetic tests a few months ago.
Two years after a Utah mine collapsed, entombing six miners more than 2,000 feet under a mountain and also killing three members of a rescue team, the state's coal operators are backing away from rich coal reserves held deep under the ground.
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