Residents in a sparsely populated area of Iron County are speaking out against a contractor that's asking Iron County to allow them to build a mine in the area.

The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.

Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah. The fire, burning in a coal seam in the historic Kenilworth ...