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Interior Department veterans: Proposed overhaul is flawed

DENVER (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's plan for a major realignment to put more of his department's decision-makers in the field has a fundamental flaw in the eyes of some who spent their careers making those decisions: They're already out there.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS AGO

Interior Department veterans: Proposed overhaul is flawed

DENVER (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's plan for a major realignment to put more of his department's decision-makers in the field has a fundamental flaw in the eyes of some who spent their careers making those decisions: They're already out there.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS AGO

Democrats say Interior boss withheld key facts

DENVER (AP) — Two Democratic congressmen accused Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wednesday of withholding key information from lawmakers while launching a massive overhaul of his department.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Democrats say Interior boss withheld key facts

DENVER (AP) — Two Democratic congressmen accused Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wednesday of withholding key information from lawmakers while launching a massive overhaul of his department.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

The West had a snowy winter, so why the fiery summer?

DENVER — Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

The West had a snowy winter, so why the fiery summer?

DENVER — Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

2017 wildfire season among the worst

DENVER — Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

2017 wildfire season among the worst

DENVER — Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Lead not big problem in Montana water

Six small Montana water systems have reported lead levels above federal standards in the past three years, a review of Environmental Protection Agency records shows.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

What's water got to do with it?

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO

Families of Colorado shooting victims hear police testimony

CENTENNIAL, Colo. - The officers struggled to hold back the tears as they recalled the Colorado theater shooting: discovering a 6-year-old girl without a pulse, trying to keep a wounded man from jumping out of a moving police car to go back for his 7-year-old daughter, screaming at a gunshot …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Hickenlooper stops prescribed burns after wildfire

CONIFER, Colo. - Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday suspended the use of state prescribed burns like the one that may have caused a deadly wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes near Denver.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

Still battling

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An Afghan insurgent's homemade bomb shattered Marc Esposito's lower legs, broke his back and knocked him cold for four days. But the Air Force staff sergeant says the worst part was being torn from his Special Operations teammates who stayed in the field after he was …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

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