Learn how coal played a vital role in shaping the Utah we know today. The coal mining industry has been the backbone of rural parts of Utah for over a century. From extraction to refining, Utahns who ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday he was outraged over a plea deal that settles criminal charges against the operator of a Utah coal mine that experienced two lethal cave-ins in ...

SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump expedited the country's first environmental review of a major coal mine project and it happens to be in Utah. "This is a critical step in unleashing the full ...

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) As Utah leaders look more ...

This story is part of a series on the future of Utah’s Coal Country. Read the first story about labor in the coal mines. On the Friday evening after Thanksgiving, the Main Street of Helper, Utah, was ...

WASHINGTON - The Skyline Mine project in central Utah is the first project to see its environmental review expedited under provisions of the Republican tax cut and spending package. The mine has been ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials rejected a mining company’s bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal officials rejected a mining company’s bid for more than 6 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in ...