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"We’re sending the message to business: Compliance with environmental regulation is expected, going beyond compliance is worthy of recognition," says Dianne Nielson, director of the Department of Environmental Quality.

The settlement clears the way for thousands of former Washington Group investors to get back some of the money they lost when WGI’s stock was declared worthless as part of the bankruptcy settlement in 2002.

"We purposely did not try to run this into the wall," said Hart, who joined the company last summer. "We did not want to leave creditors hanging. We wanted to shut down in a professional fashion."

From the nearly floor-to-ceiling windows of his new conference room, NPS Pharmaceuticals co-founder Hunter Jackson took in a panoramic view of the Salt Lake Valley – and offered a glimpse of his company’s future. "I’ve…

The Wal-Mart effect may be destructive from time to time, but it’s also profoundly creative.

I have two friends who are salmon innovators. On Al Adams’ quarter-acre lot I watched two species of salmon and a foot-long steelhead living in 50 linear feet of water.

The same detection flexibility, and the ease of the PDS-8’s portability, also could make it a life-saving tool on future battlefields, going with combat patrols to provide quick warning of airborne agents.

The plant is currently producing about 16,000 knives a week. By mid-June, 30,000 are expected. Each blade has an engraved outline of Idaho, marking the year it was made.

"I always feel that I work with people, they don’t work for me. They work with us. I couldn’t do without any of them," she said, then smiled. "Well, one or two of them I could do without."

In its heyday, the Canopy Group was Utah’s prime technology incubator. Using the fortune of technology legend Ray Noorda, it launched, funded and inspired the creation of thousands of new, high-paying jobs.