Lindsay Whitehurst

Associated Press

Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

The Export-Import Bank of the United States offers a number of tools to assist all U.S. manufacturers, and works to ensure that these opportunities are readily available to businesses owned by minorities and women. Watch video to learn more.

A ghoulish group of pallbearers stand in front of a casket representing 3.2% beer on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in Salt Lake City. After 86 years, this Halloween marks the last day 3.2% beer will be sold in Utah stores. Beginning Nov. 1, Utah stores will be selling up to 5% ABV beer, and Budweiser wants to celebrate with a funeral complete with their famous Clydesdales, in the background.

Utah Set to Tap Out on Low-Alcohol Beer Sales

The state will become the next-to-last in the country to say goodbye to lower-alcohol 3.2% beer on Friday.

Travis White, Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Incident Management Team, holds their drone at a drone demo Monday, May 20, 2019, in Park City, Utah. In Utah, drones are hovering near avalanches to watch roaring snow. In North Carolina, they're searching for the nests of endangered birds. In Kansas, they could soon be identifying sick cows through heat signatures. Public transportation agencies are using drones in nearly every state, according to a new survey released on Monday, May 20, 2019 by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

States Increasingly Turn to Drones

The market has seen a sharp increase in drone use over the last few years.

People play new video games during the Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program Launch event at the Master Games Studio on the University of Utah campus Wednesday, April 24, 2019, in Salt Lake City. Drones ferrying medical supplies, packages and even pizza could one day be crisscrossing the skies above U.S. cities, and a team at the University of Utah is working with regulators to keep that traffic in check using a video game.

Video Games Could Help Drone Traffic

A team at the University of Utah is working with regulators to keep that future traffic in check using a video game.

In this file photo, Republican Sen. Jerry Stevenson, looks on during a news conference, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers have reached a compromise deal to increase the amount of alcohol available in beer. Jerry Stevenson said Wednesday, March 13, 2019, the agreement would raise alcohol limits to 4 percent, which is still relatively low but would allow for most production-line beers to be sold in grocery and convenience stores.

Alcohol Limits Raised for Utah Beer

The agreement would raise alcohol limits to four percent, which is still lower than most states but would allow beers like Bud Light and Corona to be sold.

Utah Closer to Raising Alcohol Limit

Lawmakers are closer to adopting alcohol levels for beer that are in line with most production-line brews, despite opposition from the Mormon church.

This Sept. 7, 2018, photo shows Nick Castleton looking down a shaft, near Eureka, Utah. Underneath the landscape of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines, an underground world that can hold serious danger and unexpected wonder.

Abandoned Mines in US

The hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines in the west can hold serious danger and unexpected wonder.

This March 3, 2018 photo provided by Heather Anderson shows, from left, Navajo Mountain High School students Nahida Smith, Myra King and Breana Bitsinne compete in a Utah regional robotics competition in West Valley City, Utah. The team from a remote town in southern Utah is now headed to an international robotics competition Aug. 14 in Mexico City, Mexico. They were invited to compete in the First Global Challenge, which will draw teams from 190 countries to create robots capable of feeding power plants and building environmentally efficient transmission networks.

Navajo Robotics Team Ready

It's been an uphill battle for the team as even getting food for team meetings can be a challenge.

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, and provided by the Wasatch County Sheriff's Office is a research helicopter that was brought down by a leaping elk in the mountains of eastern Utah. Wasatch County authorities say the elk jumped into the chopper's tail rotor as the craft flew low, trying to capture the animal with a net. The two people on board weren't seriously hurt, but wildlife officials say the elk died of its injuries. The state-contracted Australian crew had been trying to capture and sedate the elk so they could collar it and research its movements about 90 miles east of Salt Lake City.

Research Helicopter Taken Out By Jumping Elk

The researchers on board weren't hurt, but the elk didn't make it.

FILE - This Aug. 5, 2016 file photo shows land in West Jordan, Utah. Facebook has chosen a village on the edge of New Mexico's largest metropolitan area as the location for its new data center. The decision followed a roller-coaster contest between New Mexico and West Jordan, Utah to attract the facility.

Facebook's New Data Center

The courting of Facebook began more than a year ago when the state's governor pitched a location that wasn't even on the company's radar.

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Company Tied to Polygamous Group Used Child Labor

Workers were also often told to sign over their paychecks so the money could be used by leaders of the group.