PROMONTORY, Utah (AP) — Thousands of people gathered Friday at the remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered 150 years ago, uniting a nation long separated by vast expanses of desert, mountains and forests and fresh off the Civil War. Visitors […]
PROMONTORY, Utah (AP) — The Latest on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (all times local): 10:35 a.m. People from all over the country are gathering at a remote spot in Utah to celebrate Friday’s 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Bill Hanmer […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert increased his tax-cut proposal to $225 million on Wednesday as he pressed his call to restructure the tax system by putting new taxes on services, a project he called the state’s No. 1 priority. The Republican governor gave his 10th State […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A state board wants to change the name of a mountain peak in eastern Nevada’s Great Basin National Park to more appropriately recognize a geological area important to a native tribe instead of honoring a Confederate leader from the Civil War. The Nevada Board of Geographic […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — University of Utah archaeologists are excitedly excavating a sandstone foundation believed to be a military barracks built during the Civil War era at the college’s Fort Douglas. The Deseret News reports the sandstone foundation was accidentally discovered about four years by contractors digging a utility trench. Sheri […]
