Green River News

Compressed natural gas is a cheap, safe, potentially plentiful and clean-burning motor fuel.

The Emery County Commissioners called a special meeting to discuss the issues surrounding the emergency medical services department.

Utah's already enviable network of compressed-natural-gas stations for cars is taking root along Interstate 15 and soon may branch out to other corners of the state.

President of The World Bank Robert Zoellick, left, addresses the panel as Pam Inmann, executive director of the Western Governors' Association, right, listens during the Western Governor's Association meeting Monday.

During the legislative tour of energy related fields in eastern Utah on Memorial Day week, attending state legislators learned a lot of new things about oil and gas.

Approximately 10 months ago the decision was made in Emery County Commission meeting to make the ambulance service a stand alone department and remove it from within the Emery County Sheriff's Office.

MECCA sponsors the annual San Rafael Bike Festival each spring on the Swell. The event begins in Green River with a spaghetti dinner.

Andrew Carnegie contemplated the cavernous new wing of his Pittsburgh museum. It needed something to fill it.

The Spring Runoff is slowing and flows have been changed the Bureau of Reclamation.

The wet weather over the last two days impacted vacationers in southeastern Utah.

Although Johnnie Franklin Callahan died in 1995 and James William Dunn died a little more a year ago, they rode into Utah on Friday morning, escorted by hundreds of reverent fans who had never met them, never talked to them.

Emery County scenery is part of the new Star Trek movie. This 2009 production is the 11th in the major movie productions based upon the TV series, Star Trek which ran for three seasons from 1966-1969. Paramount was in the county in May 2008 for five days.

The school year has wound down to its final week and Emery High and Green River High are preparing for their graduation ceremonies on May 21 at 7 p.m. The Green River ceremony will have Crosby Hatt and Brennan Bigelow speak as Co-Valedictorians. Marvin Arnold is the class president and he will speak along with vice principal Pat Brady.

The current state of practice to estimate the risk from intrusion of vapors of petroleum hydrocarbons from spills of gasoline is to measure the concentration of the chemical of concern in ground water under the spill, use Henrya s Law to estimate a concentration of the chemical in soil gas in equilibrium with the ground water, and then assume that ...

The 'Help is Here Express' bus tour will be stopping in Utah throughout the week of May 18-May 22 at various cities in order to help uninsured and financially-struggling Utahans access information on programs that provide prescription medicines for free or nearly free.

The Utah Academy of Physician Assistants, at its April 23-26 conference in Mesquite, Nev., presented its Rural Physician Assistant of the Year Award to Kim McFarlane, Green River, sole provider of medical care since January 2005.

It is anticipated that releases will be maintained at powerplant capacity for five to ten days after Flaming Gorge has reached powerplant capacity on May 12, 2009; however, temperature and flows in the Green River have the potential to impact the duration of powerplant releases.

The paving has begun on the Moore cut-off road. Emery County Commissioner Gary Kofford updated the commission on the progress of the road.

The Division of Wildlife Services is seeking input on fishing regulations in Utah.

Let's shelve the conversation on the safety of nuclear power for the moment and look at another aspect of it that is facing Utah today.