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The garden in the middle of a 35,000-acre former mine is supplying thousands of pounds of fresh produce to families in three counties that have few grocery stores.
The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought.
Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen.
"It’s been a lackluster, underwhelming, frankly problematic response."
Projects face a shortage of power lines and delays in connecting to the grid — two issues the debt ceiling deal does little to address.
With little fanfare, the administration is using infrastructure funding to revive dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs in rural areas across the U.S. West.
More than 200 science, technology, engineering, and math professionals are candidates at the state and municipal level this year.
These powerlifters and strongmen are lifting heavier weights with a diet that's lighter on the planet.
$10 for 3.2 billion gallons of water? A loophole in Utah law could enable the country’s first commercial oil mining operation.
