Oquirrh News

If Rio Tinto can simultaneously boast in its Sunday, Nov. 20, full-page ad, "The copper exhibit is on the outside," about the 100,000 pounds of copper it ripped out of the Oquirrh mountains to sheath the new Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center, and enthuse about the museum's "sustainability," we either need to upend our ... (more)

Newswise - SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 10, 2011 - A truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah this month as University of Utah meteorologists use it to get an unprecedented look inside snow and rain storms over the Salt Lake Valley and the surrounding Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains.