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DOE: SC low-level radioactive waste coming to Utah
The Department of Energy said Thursday it won't halt the shipment of nearly 15,000 drums of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina for disposal in Utah. Comment?
Depleted uranium OK'd for storage
Opponents to the storage of depleted uranium at EnergySolution's Clive facility in Tooele County were dismayed Thursday to learn the Department of Energy has given federal regulators the green light for its storage in Utah. Comment?
(Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources provided the news release below.) See Hundreds of Wild Elk Hyrum -- You can take a sleigh ride that gets you close to as many as 600 wild elk. The rides are available four days a week at the Hardware Ranch ... Comment?
Merit Medical accepts incentive to expand, add jobs
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... to grow, even in difficult economic times, announcing yet another expansion that could add an estimated 400 jobs in Utah over the next decade. The South Jordan-based manufacturer of disposable medical products on Thursday accepted an incentive ... Comment?
Bonus miles for biggest Utah freeway job
Reconstruction of Interstate 15 in Utah County will provide traffic relief all the way from Lehi south to Spanish Fork instead of stopping in Provo as expected, the Utah Department of Transportation announced Wednesday. Comment?
It has come to this. Utopia, the ill-starred fiber-optic network in which 10 Utah cities are enmeshed, is hemorrhaging cash. Comment?
Depleted uranium is on its way here
Trainloads of depleted uranium will soon be on the move, rolling over the objections of critics on their way to a Utah burial site. Comment?
State considers $1 peak-hour toll for I-15 express lanes
... at $1 when the regular lanes are really bogged down, state traffic engineers recommended Thursday. If approved by the Utah Transportation Commission, the rates would apply once the state cranks up its electronic tolling system for express lanes next ... Comment?
GOED board endows one of its own, again
... In October, board member Nikos Linardakis was approved for an incentive of as much as $407,000 to produce in Utah a movie called "A Toast to the American Dream." He will get that money -- a fairly large incentive for a film -- after he completes the ... Comment?
Guv to order across-the-board cuts
... Friday's budget proposal marks Herbert's first as governor, and it comes during the worst economic downturn in Utah in generations, with policymakers forced to find $850 million in cuts or shifts in a budget already slashed by about a billion ... Comment?
ATK to lay off 800 Utah employees next year
... Techsystems Inc. plans to lay off 800 more of its employees, beginning early next year. The cuts are a blow not only to Utah's aerospace industry but to manufacturing in the northern part of the state, which a few years ago saw the loss of hundreds ... Comment?
... the State budget without raising taxes. They write, " Sen. Steve Urquhart is trying to round up a majority of his Utah Senate colleagues to promise to oppose any tax increases in next year's general session of the Legislature. . . . To say that the ... Comment?
... game. Here's the pre-game fun and festivities. 1) Yes, it is VERY cold outside. 13 degrees. Maybe because we're in Utah and it's December. 2) The obligatory references to John Stockton and Karl Malone -- an unwritten law when you cover NBA in Salt ... Comment?
Tooele shelter no longer sends animals to U of U labs
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... the cat that has lived at the shelter for 13 years. The city's animal shelter has not donated animals for University of Utah animal research projects for almost a year. - photography / Maegan Burr Practice of donating animals for research has been ... Comment?
Operation Christmas foundering now as requests flood in
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... may be mailed to the Tooele Valley Community Cooperative, attention Cheryl Adams, at 47. S. Main Street, Tooele, Utah 84074. Please specify on the check that the gift is for Operation Christmas. Families, individuals, businesses, church groups, or ... Comment?
Hogan: Biggest threat to agriculture is regulation
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Stockton resident Leland Hogan was recently elected to his fifth two-year term as president of the Utah Farm Bureau. Comment?
Daughter of Utah gun-shop owner held in burglary
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... dy being held in Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of possessing the two stolen guns. Taylor was booked Wednesday into Utah County jail. Comment?
Tough times continue for Alliant Techsystems as the defense contractor and aerospace company announced on Thursday that 800 jobs would be cut from its Utah work force early next year. Comment?
U. scientist finds dino carnivore
Big meat-eating dinosaurs like the infamous T. rex sprang from a much smaller carnivorous dinosaur that ate pretty much anything it could get into its tooth-festooned mouth, whose skin was covered by a wispy plume of feathers and roamed the planet when Utah was beachfront property and earth was a single gigantic continent. Comment?
Depleted uranium headed to Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Thousands of drums of depleted uranium will be coming to our state. Comment?