Monsanto aims to stop leaks at Idaho mine dump

Ore. crabbers hoping for good catch, good price

OSU faculty face mandatory furloughs

Court: grape growers can't fight generic ads

Nevada wildlife officers seek elk poachers

Dairy group receives recharge water

Dairy farmers in Southern Idaho have something to be thankful for this month, even in the depths of the industry's worst downturn in decades. They've received 3,600 acre-feet of water to mitigate for the impact that dairy ground water pumping has had on senior water rights holders in the ...

Island's bison given birth control to control herd

AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Birth control for bison? That's what conservationists are giving a herd on Santa Catalina Island in an attempt to reduce the population. Females over the age of 2 will be injected with a contraceptive under a five-year experimental program that begins Friday. ...

Oregon wildlife biologist videotapes wolf pack

JOSEPH, Ore. (AP) -- The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says a wildlife biologist videotaped a pack of at least 10 gray wolves on Forest Service land in Eastern Oregon. The agency says the pack is the largest yet confirmed in Oregon since wolves began returning to the state in the ...

Biologists save fish after landslide

SHANNON DININNY Associated Press NILE, Wash. (AP) -- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish. The landslide that inundated the Naches River last month created a barrier ...

Productivity, sustainability compatible

Editorial Three events in recent weeks in different parts of the world juxtaposed a problem and a potential solution. In Rome, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said the declining aid and investment in agriculture has driven up the number of hungry people around the globe to mor ...