ARTICLES BY BRIAN SKOLOFF

Washington fires grow by 100 square miles

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Maximum mercury

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Border agent remembered

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Guns blamed for western wildfires

SPOKANE (AP) — Campfires, fireworks and even lit cigarettes can spark wildfires. In the tinder-dry West, there is growing concern about the threat from guns.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Breaking in on the cops

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Arizona wildfire spreads, health conditions worsen

SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. - An eye-stinging, throat-burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east as central New Mexico, prompting health officials to warn residents as far away as Albuquerque about potential respiratory hazards.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

500-year-old book surfaces in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY - Book dealer Ken Sanders has seen a lot of nothing in his decades appraising "rare" finds pulled from attics and basements, storage sheds and closets.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Miracle in the Gulf

ON THE FLOOR OF THE GULF OF MEXICO - Just 20 miles north of where BP's blown-out well spewed millions of gallons of oil into the sea, life appears bountiful despite initial fears that crude could have wiped out many of these delicate deepwater habitats.

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