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In the summer of 1960, Rod Slifer quit his sales job at an office supply store in Denver and joined a friend riding three-speed klunker bikes to Union Station. There, according to the new book,...

Welcome to the Beehive Archive—your weekly bite-sized look at some of the most pivotal—and peculiar—events in Utah history. With all of the history and none of the dust, the Beehive Archive is a fun way to catch up on Utah’s past. Beehive Archive is a production of Utah Humanities, provided to local papers as a […]

In the summer of 1960, Rod Slifer quit his sales job at an office supply store in Denver and joined a friend riding three-speed klunker bikes to Union Station. There, according to the new book,...

Our weather pattern becomes slightly more active as high pressure moves away, but the poor air quality in our valleys remains for now.

The prospect of oil-filled trains from Utah rolling next to the Colorado River suffered another setback this week. A Dec. 4 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a...

The proposed 88-mile Uinta Basin Railway would connect drilling operations in northeast Utah to the main rail line near Price, sending up to five two-mile-long oil trains a day along the Colorado River and through Denver toward Gulf Coast refineries, increasing production by up to 350,000 barrels a day. Legal action by environmental groups  and Eagle County, including nearly $450,000 in taxpayer-funded legal feels, has delayed if not outright derailed the project.

/PRNewswire/ -- Ecoteq Energy ASA, a forward-thinking clean-tech energy company developing an environmentally friendly oil and bitumen production process with...

Railroad industry news about: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, proposed Uinta Basin Railway, Surface Transportation Board, crude by rail, environmental impact statement. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine

WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders and Indigenous community advocates called on the Biden administration to protect more ancestral homelands by designating them as national monuments. The Indigenous Voices o...

The enhanced geothermal project has started operations, with carbon-free electricity flowing into the local grid serving Googles Nevada data centers.