BOISE, Idaho - Officials from the United States and Canada say that American northern border policy, shaped by terrorism concerns and Mexican border issues, is negatively impacting Pacific Northwest communities. "We're trying to decide what to do wit...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will make overhauling the nation’s 137-year-old hardrock mining law a top priority despite a full plate of higher profile issues, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday. Salazar told a Senate committee...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Dozens of fruitful wells beneath the rich Bakken shale in North Dakota continue to fuel a hunch among oilmen and geologists that another vast crude-bearing formation may be buried in the state's vast oil patch. Lynn Helms, director o...

WASHINGTON - Economic policy, which became startling when Washington, D.C., began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need for a ... second stimulu...

Greenpeace activist Brian Jenkins arrived at one of the country's most revered national monuments one morning last week fully aware that he'd leave in handcuffs. Leaning into a video camera from the top of Mount Rushmore, and surrounded by ...