DENVER (AP) — U.S. officials must consider climate change effects from leasing about 250 square miles (648 sq. kilometers) of public lands in Colorado and Utah for oil and gas drilling, under a federal court ruling issued Wednesday. The order from U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington follows a […]
OREM, Utah-Monday, Utah Valley men’s basketball coach Mark Madsen confirmed the retention of director of basketball operations Bobby Horodyski on his staff. Horodyski assists the Wolverines with academic oversight, travel, equipment and overseeing the managers and graduate assistants. Horodyski is also in charge of film exchange and directs the Wolverines’ […]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A 40-year-old Chicago woman faces nearly four years in federal prison for using fraudulent federal nutrition benefit checks to purchase nearly $220,000 worth of items at Kmart stores in 11 states during a four-month crime spree. Lynada Laticia Mahone was arrested in Arizona, pleaded guilty to […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne over the weekend […]
LOGAN, Utah-Per a Thursday resort, Utah State football will appear on national television eight times during the 2019 season. This consists of five home games and three road games. Four of the broadcasts are on the ESPN family of networks and the other four are on CBS Sports Network. The […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A utility company is considering early retirement for one Wyoming coal-fired power plant and part of another to keep down costs. Portland, Oregon-based PacifiCorp is studying the potential savings of retiring coal-fired generating units as early as 2022. The company said Thursday that four coal-fired units […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Reservoirs around the Colorado River basin are in good shape after an exceptionally wet winter. The largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are expected to be more than half full this year. They haven’t been near capacity since 1999 when drought took hold of the […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four conservation groups have asked a judge to block a Trump administration plan allowing drilling, mining and other activities in seven Western states they say will harm sage grouse. Western Watersheds Project and other groups asked for the injunction in U.S. District Court in Idaho late […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday through Saturday, Utah baseball (11-19, 3-12 in Pac-12 play) hosts #12 Arizona State (28-7, 10-5 in Pac-12 play) in a key Pac-12 series at Smith’s Ballpark. Should the Utes win a game this series, that victory will be the 600th in the career of head coach Bill […]
LAS VEGAS-Thursday, Utah State men’s basketball (25-6, 15-3 in Mountain West Conference play) returns to action at the Thomas & Mack Center against the New Mexico Lobos (14-17, 7-11 in conference play) in the Mountain West Conference quarterfinals. The rested Aggies are the #2 seed and are facing a Lobos […]
