Japan

After the war, Walt Becker eventually moved to Casper where he founded the Becker Fire Equipment Co.

Governor Mark Gordon is continuing the State of Wyoming's partnership with the Japan Coal Energy Center (JCOAL) in a collaborative effort to promote and strengthen the coal industry. The two entities renewed an MOU in July. The collaboration includes work to develop a Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) test project at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center in Gillette...

Australia’s biggest newspaper publisher, News Corp., said it is suspending printing of 60 local papers.

I am not typically a very sentimental person, but Veteran’s Day always reminds me of my dad. He was a vet who served in World War 2.

The first plant is expected to begin operations in 2020.

Dad was swimming with a buddy at Waikiki when the first wave of Japanese planes hit the harbor at 7:55 a.m. Life got much harder after that.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Radioactivity from Japan’s power plant disaster has been detected as far away as almost 400 miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say ocean water showed readings of up to 1,000 times prior levels of the substance cesium-137 from the Fukushima nuclear power plant...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan says its trade deficit ballooned to a record high 1.48 trillion yen ($18.7 billion) in January, the biggest in the three decades that such data became available. The numbers released Monday by the Ministry of Finance highlight this nation’s surging import of fuel after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster sent a nuclear plant into meltdown...