Boise, Idaho (AP)
Idaho health officials are urging anglers at southern Idaho and northern Nevada reservoirs to limit their consumption of rainbow trout after a federal study found elevated levels of mercury.
Higher-than-normal mercury levels were documented in rainbow trout caught in Lake Billy Shaw, Sheep Creek Reservoir and Mountain View Reservoir on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, as well as the Wildhorse Reservoir nearby.
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By Jennifer Dobner
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP)
Conservation groups are asking a judge to block oil and gas drilling around trout streams and in roadless forests of northern Utah.
The groups are challenging lease sales held in 2004 and 2005. They contend a multiyear...07-01-2010, 07:48 PM -
By Matthew Brown
Billings, Montana (AP)
Federal officials recently ordered three oil companies to support the monitoring of water supplies on northeastern Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation, after public wells were found to be tainted with salty wastewater.
The...12-24-2010, 03:19 PM -
Richland, Washington (AP)
Benton County Coroner Rick Corson has asked a forensic anthropologist to help determine the age and origin of a bone found in the Columbia River.
The lower jaw and two teeth were found by a boater during late August in a couple of inches of water...09-03-2009, 03:09 PM -
Cheyenne, Wyoming (AP)
Federal authorities have charged two men in connection with death of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found on the Wind River Indian Reservation earlier this month.
U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts said in a news release Friday that 19-year-old...04-23-2010, 05:35 PM -
Phoenix, Arizona (AP)
Tribal and federal police executed search warrants at several homes April 2 in and near the Gila River Indian Reservation.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix said five people were arrested on charges of dealing crack cocaine and methamphetamine....04-08-2010, 04:21 PM