By MIKE GORRELL, Salt Lake Tribune

SALT LAKE CITY - It was a day for reveling in Utah's Olympic glory days of a decade past, and giving serious consideration to trying to do it again a decade hence.

Although it balked mightily, the Olympic caldron at Rice-Eccles Stadium was relit for a few minutes this week to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the highly successful 2002 Winter Games.

SALT LAKE CITY - Mine safety laws got tougher, enforcement too, after three Appalachian accidents in 2006 and the Crandall Canyon disaster in Utah a year later.

But now a devastating explosion in West Virginia has produced yet another disaster, the country's worst since a fire killed 27 Utah miners in the Wilberg mine in 1984.

Great snow in December might have salvaged the important holiday week for Western ski resorts, but the recession has been taking a toll since then.
New figures from the Denver-based Mountain Travel Research Program reflect the strain that rising unemployment and plunging consumer confidence have had on the ski industry and its partners in the lodging and hospitality sectors.

Not quite three months after her cancerous left leg was amputated just below the hip, Amanda McDaniel watched Paralympian Monte Meier carve fluid one-legged turns last week at Park City Mountain Resort.
"That will be you before long," said one of McDaniel's instructors from the National Ability Center.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has cracked down on Murray Energy Corp., fining the company $420,300 for "flagrantly" violating safety laws at its Tower mine in Carbon County, Utah.

The families of the six Crandall Canyon mine disaster victims still buried in its collapsed workings are closer to having one source of solace -- a secluded memorial where they can be closer to their loved ones. Murray Energy Corp., which owns Crandall Canyon, said this week it will build the memorial in a small, elevated meadow just uphill from the mine.

After August's mine disaster in Utah, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. assembled a commission to evaluate the state's role in mine safety, accident prevention and emergency response.He received an answer Wednesday: 45 recommended improvements in a 97-page document from the Utah Mine Safety Commission.