The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001. But U.S. Mine ...

Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, ...

In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough people to fill the estimated 350 jobs needed to staff it.

The cost to reduce smoke billowing from a fire burning deep within an abandoned Central Utah coal mine could run over $1 million, and crews can likely never put the fire out. “We’re going to ...

Searchers began drilling a sixth hole 1,700 feet into a Utah coal mine in a last-ditch effort to find six miners trapped in an Aug. 6 cave-in. "This is the last hole," mine co-owner Bob Murray ...

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This past spring, developers who are determined to open a vast limestone mine in Parley’s Canyon pressured Utah legislators to insulate the mining of so-called critical infrastructure materials ...

Coal is stored outside the Hunter coal-fired power plant, operated by PacifiCorp, in Emery County on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) In past iterations of a ...

Here, Noticieros Televisa interviews Susana Salcido, a relative of miner Manuel Arturo Sanchez. We have all been following the mining disaster that took place last Monday in Huntington, Utah ““ a ...

Built in the 1970s, during a coal mining boom in central Utah, the plants became part of Berkshire’s portfolio in 2006, when it acquired PacifiCorp, owner of utility companies in several western ...

two major Utah coal-powered power plants. But, the last update of the draft doesn’t foresee a closure in the next 20 years. In the 2023 version of PacifiCorp’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP ...

The Winter Quarters coal mines in Scofield, Utah provided a relatively rewarding standard of living for those accustomed to the boom-or-bust cycles of farming the land. But coal mining was far ...