Huntington News

It's been 20 years since a construction worker's backhoe dug up something far more interesting than dirt - the 10,000-year-old remains of one of the planet's last mammoths.

Catholic Masses - The schedule includes: East Carbon Good Shepherd, Saturday at 4 p.m. Green River St.

Emery County Sheriff LaMar Guymon urged motorists to exhibit extreme caution while driving the streets in Emery County.

The school days for these classmates may have ended years ago, but they can still recall the memories fondly.

On July 2 a call came into the Emery County Sheriff's Office dispatch center reporting a small child had been hit by a car on Huntington Main Street near the city library.

Five hundred and fifty scouts, their leaders and instructors lived in Huntington for one week working on the tamarisk removal project.

Huntington/Cleveland Irrigation Company toured their salinity project along with invited guests from various agencies.

The Huntington Glee Club was organized almost 90 years ago as a High School Male Chorus at Huntington High School.

Editor's note: Columnist Lee Benson is spending the week bicycling west to east across Utah, from the Nevada line to the Colorado line.

July 4 at 7 p.m. Events-stick horse barrel racing, 6 and under ; mutton bustin, 6 and under ; calf riding, 7-9 ; steer riding: 10-12 ; cash cow chase, 7-9 and 10-12 ; chicken chase, 0-6, 7-9, and 10-12. ...

Commissioner Gary Kofford called the Municipal Building Authority meeting to order and began by introducing a contract with the Permanent Community Impact Board for the Huntington Airport improvement project.

"What should I do for the rest of my life?" "What kind of career would I enjoy?" "What kind of education will I need to get?" These are questions that many high school students think about.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health provides extensive resources that can help mine operators and mine workers to anticipate risks of roof falls in mines, to anticipate potential hazards ...

Those heartbroken women. Sculptor Karen Jobe Templeton's thoughts kept coming back to the wives and mothers as, day after day after day, she listened to radio accounts in August of the Crandall Canyon mine ...

WASHINGTON - Top company officials at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Huntington, Utah, where nine miners perished in August 2007, concealed facts that would have prevented the deaths and should be criminally ...

What happened at Crandall Canyon mine in Huntington, Utah last year was a terrible disaster that perhaps, could have been avoided. via The Grand Junction Sentinel

Posted by David Roberts at 11:52 AM on 09 May 2008 Mining accidents and deaths cause a flurry of press coverage and then fade into our collective memory. via Gristmill

“I believe that UtahAmerican Energy may have deliberately and significantly downplayed the extent of the March bump in its conversations with MSHA staff”

The Associated Press 1 comment Federal prosecutors should open a criminal investigation into the deaths of nine people in a Utah mine collapse last year, a leading House Democrat said Thursday. via ABC News

“With what the Huntsman family has so generously donated, it will be enough to get the job done”

Thanks to $125,000 in donations from the Huntsman family, funding is largely intact for a public monument in Huntington that will honor the nine men killed in August's Crandall Canyon mine collapses. via Salt Lake Tribune

“Regulatory agencies must do all they can to prevent the worst from happening”

Senators from the Rocky Mountain states on Monday reacted to federal accusations that mine safety officials were responsible for the deaths of nine coal miners in central Utah last summer. via Kutv.com