Tue June 06, 2017
President Monson Announces Five New LDS Temples
Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced plans to build five new temples, located in Brasília, Brazil; the greater Manila, Philippines, area; Nairobi, Kenya; Pocatello, Idaho; and Saratoga Springs, Utah....
Tue June 06, 2017
St. John Properties Begins Construction on Grove Tower
St. John Properties has commenced construction on its newest office building. The 190,000-sq.-ft. Grove Tower is next to I-15 and Pleasant Grove Boulevard (Exit 275). Grove Tower follows on the company's recent completion of two other adjacent single story office buildings within their 60-acre master planned development known as Valley Grove....
Micah Garbarino - Tue June 06, 2017
Construction Begins on Innovation Center at Hill AFB
Developers at Hill Air Force Base are breaking ground on another new construction project, creating more space for new jobs near the base. Air Force and Utah officials participated in a ceremony March 3, 2017, to mark the progress at Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park....
Giles Lambertson - Tue June 06, 2017
Bingham Canyon Mine Displays Monumental Character
Big. That little word captures the essence of Rio Tinto Kennecott's Bingham Canyon open pit mine. Situated a few miles southwest of Salt Lake City in Utah, the mine is big…as in one of the largest man-made excavations in the entire world, a hole so vast that astronauts can spot it from space....
Rebecca Boone - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue June 06, 2017
Cleanup at Idaho Nuclear Landfill on Hold After Collapse
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Some cleanup efforts at a nuclear waste landfill in eastern Idaho are on hold while workers try to figure out what caused a collapse in a dig area that sent an excavator into a pit. The excavator was digging up transuranic waste — which is waste contaminated with highly radioactive elements....
Tue June 06, 2017
Honnen Promotes Murphy, Krausch
Honnen Equipment Co. announced the promotion of Matt Murphy to director of John Deere sales. He will be responsible for contributing to the overall sales strategy of Honnen Equipment throughout our ten branches in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and southern Idaho....
Tue June 06, 2017
Oregon School Wins Forestry Award
SUTHERLIN (AP) On behalf of the Oregon Natural Resources Education Fund (ONREF), the Society of American Foresters presented an award certificate at a May 15 Sutherlin school board meeting to Sutherlin High School and instructor Wes Crawford to show support for the school's commitment to providing educational opportunities in forestry....
Jennifer Rupp - Tue June 06, 2017
Reconstruction Along I-90 in the Heart of Idaho's Silver Valley
The small town of Mullan in Shoshone County, Idaho, marks the start of a 4.5-mi. reconstruction project along I-90 extending east to the Idaho/Montana state line. By the 1980s, this area known as the Silver Valley, had produced more than a billion ounces of silver, 3 million tons of zinc, and 8 million tons of lead, totalling more than $6 billion in value, ranking the valley among the top 10 mining districts in world history, according to the Spokane Daily Chronicle....
Lori Tobias - Tue June 06, 2017
Tillamook Estuaries' $12M Project Restores Oregon Wetlands
For decades, folks in Tillamook, Ore., looked for ways to diminish the flooding that so frequently troubles this agricultural community, damaging property, threatening lives and generally shutting down town....
Fri June 02, 2017
Construction Sign Causes Social Media Stir
A construction site in southern New Mexico, which sparked buzz with a fake sign announcing it as a future home of a Cheesecake Factory, is really a future emergency center. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (https://goo.gl/aIJF5k) that officials say pranksters put up the bogus sign on a gate as a joke....
