Business & Economy

All 12 Mountain West schools will be involved and Oregon State and Washington State will each play three home games and three road games against members of the conference.

The projections say Washington County will need a lot more housing as its population expands. But after years of increases, the number of new residential units fell this year.

More and more Utahns are having fewer and fewer babies.

The Washington state Supreme Court has granted a request by the University of Washington and the Pac-12 to put on hold a lower court’s ruling that gave Oregon State and Washington State control of the conference.

Fervo Energy, the company partnered with Google, is using the Nevada pilot project to launch others, including one in Utah that will deliver far more carbon-free electricity to the grid.

The sweet, tart and mysterious desert has been attracting hungry travelers at the gateway to Zion National Park for nearly 60 years.

A judge has granted Oregon State and Washington State a preliminary injunction in their legal battle with 10 departing Pac-12 schools, including the University of Utah.

U.S. sheep ranchers are struggling but domestic lamb consumption is up. As it stands now, the country imports more than 70% of the lamb it consumes.

NuScale and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems have called off their project to provide a new kind of nuclear power to many Utah communities.

Utah, Washington, Cache, Davis and Wasatch counties can expect to add more than 4,000 school-age children each by 2060, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.

The termination of the small modular nuclear reactor power plant is a blow to the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda following the cancelations of two major offshore wind projects.

Last year, Wyoming lost 500,000 acres of farm and ranch land, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In the Mountain West, more than seven million acres have disappeared in the past decade, mostly in Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico.