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CNBC's John Harwood reports members of both parties are coming up with their strategies on the debt ceiling; and Gov. Gary Herbert, (R-UT), explains how uncertainty over the debt ceiling is affecting Utah's efforts to balance the budget.
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SALT LAKE CITY-- Private equity firm Energy Capital Partners has raised its buyout offer for nuclear contractor EnergySolutions Inc. to about $378 million, gaining the support of a key shareholder. A deal between Energy Capital and EnergySolutions was initially announced back in January, but needed the approval of EnergySolutions' shareholders.
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SALT LAKE CITY-- The largest health and hospital system in Utah is agreeing to hand over $25.5 million to the federal government to settle claims it improperly contracted with doctors.
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*CME sounds out Chile as location for copper warehouses. LONDON/ NEW YORK, April 5- U.S. exchange operator CME Group is sounding out Chile as the location for a network of warehouses as its copper contract takes market share from the London Metal Exchange, sources familiar with the matter said.
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SALT LAKE CITY-- After four years of negotiations, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Wednesday rejected an agreement with Nevada that would allow Las Vegas to pump massive amounts of groundwater from the states' shared border.
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HONOLULU-- Hawaii lawmakers are debating amending the state's anti-gambling law to clarify that it's illegal to sell goods or services that entitle people to play gambling machines. The Senate judiciary committee met Tuesday to debate the bill and plans to vote Wednesday. Hawaii is the only state besides Utah that bans all forms of gambling.
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SALT LAKE CITY-- Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed legislation pushing back the July 1 start date of the state's guest-worker program. Curt Bramble, one of the architects of the guest-worker law, says the program was set up because there was no federal program, but now it appears Congress may tackle immigration with a comprehensive plan this year.
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Gary Herbert said Thursday he was struggling over whether to let Las Vegas pump massive amounts of groundwater from the Nevada- Utah border. The water comes from an ice-age aquifer under 120- mile-long Snake Valley, which supports ranching and farming on both sides of the Utah- Nevada border.
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SANTA FE, N.M.-- New Mexico can move ahead with establishing a state-run health insurance exchange under legislation signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Martinez is one of a small number of GOP governors to opt for a state-run exchange under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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A group of at least six beavers at a Utah bird refuge have emerged as key players in helping contain a fuel leak that left half of them with severe burns. The Chevron Corp. fuel spill leaked about 27,000 gallons of crude oil into soil and marshes at Willard Bay State Park last week after a split in a Salt Lake City- to- Spokane, Wash. pipeline.
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March 25- Rhino Resource Partners LP:. *Source text: LEXINGTON, Ky., March 25, 2013/ PRNewswire/-- With deepest sorrow, Rhino Resource Partners LP reports that our friend and co-worker, Elam Derk Jones, an employee of Castle Valley Mining LLC in Emery County, Utah, was fatally injured in a roof fall at Mine #4 on Friday, March 22, 2013 at approximately 3:05 local time.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 25- On a frosty December night last year, about two dozen guests slipped into the Alta Club, a century-old private retreat a block away from the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that dominates Salt Lake City.
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SALT LAKE CITY, March 22- A miner was killed and another injured on Friday when part of a tunnel roof collapsed at a coal mine in central Utah, authorities said. The miner was killed in the cave-in at the Rhino mine in Bear Canyon, 10 miles from Huntington in central Utah, which was reported shortly after 3 p.m. local time, the Emery County Sheriff's Office said.
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The miner was killed in the cave-in at the Rhino mine in Bear Canyon, 10 miles from Huntington in central Utah, which was reported shortly after 3 p.m. local time, the Emery County Sheriff's Office said. A call to Rhino Resource Partners, which owns the operation in Emery and Carbon Counties, Utah, was not returned.
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LONDON, March 22- The controversial Tony awards-winning musical "The Book of Mormon" opened in London to mixed reviews on Friday in its debut outside the United States. The show, by Parker and Stone in collaboration with "Avenue Q" co-creator Robert Lopez, opened on Broadway in March 2011 to wide acclaim and won nine Tony awards, Broadway' s highest honours.
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Suppliers like T. Boone Pickens' Clean Energy Fuels, Royal Dutch Shell and China's private ENN Group are scrambling to build natural gas fueling stations along U.S. highways, while Cummins-Westport Inc will begin later this year selling a 12- liter natural gas engine able to power the biggest trucks on the road.
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PHILADELPHIA, March 21- Pennsylvania moved a step closer on Thursday toward getting out of the liquor business, with its House of Representatives voting to sell state-run liquor stores into private hands.
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March 21- Intermountain Power Agency's 900- megawatt Unit 2 at the Intermountain coal-fired plant in Utah will likely return to service by about April 29, a spokesman at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said Thursday.
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March 21- U.S. energy management company EnerNOC Inc on Thursday said it entered into a 10- year agreement that will enable electric customers of PacifiCorp in Idaho and Utah to reduce power use by about 185 megawatts.
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Kaiser Permanente has been touted as the model of reformed health care, but even they can't trim costs enough, the New York Times reports.
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*Baucus warns of growing impatience in Congress. Richard Gilfillan, who is overseeing the initiative at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told the Senate Finance Committee that his agency is now testing three-dozen care delivery models involving 50,000 healthcare providers and more than 1 million beneficiaries.