CHEYENNE - In June this year, Shauna Stephenson met the members of the Cheyenne-based Outland Adventure Racing Team. They asked her if she was interested in training for a team race in Moab, Utah in October.
CHEYENNE - I'm ready. I'm ready in an opening kickoff of a state football championship kind of way, the huddle, a stinky vibrating mass of sweat and adrenaline, fingers signaling "we're number one" pointed at the sky and deep bass singing "beee ready, beeee ready," over the loud speaker.
NATURITA, Colo. (AP) -- A uranium producer plans to build a mill outside this town to service several uranium mines in western Colorado and eastern Utah.
Chris Eatough's attempt to secure his seventh straight victory at the 24 Hours of Adrenalin Solo World Championships ran into an impassable roadblock Sunday morning - Australian Craig Gordon. Gordon, a 34-year-old former World Cup cross-country rider, hails from Sydney, Australia.
Three years into a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness, housing officials are struggling to get rural Utah to catch the vision. Fewer than half of the 10 regional homeless committees have launched pilot projects. Unless rural communities do their part, the plan will fail, warns Palmer DePaulis, new director of the Department of Community and Culture. It's now or never, DePaulis said
Last week I joined a lumbering parade of gas-hungry RVs and SUVs going to Arches National Park near Moab. Crossing the prehistoric red stones we looked like a pilgrimage to the fossilized source of our life-giving oil.
NATURITA - A uranium producer plans to build a mill outside this town to service several uranium mines in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Energy Fuels Resources Corp., based in nearby Nucla, owns mines near Gateway and in Utah between Moab and Blanding.
Primal Quest Utah, an adventure race that contributed more than $2 million to Moab's economy when it took place between June 25 and July 4, will be televised next week on the ESPN and ABC networks. "Sports are a key component of Utah's economic development and promotional strategy," said Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. "This race will show the world what Utah is all about.
