(AP) – An Indian tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen filed a lawsuit challenging the return of suction dredges to mine for gold in California rivers. The lawsuit was filed late Monday in ...

BOISE, Idaho — A suction-dredge gold miner from California who operated in an Idaho river containing federally protected salmon and steelhead without permits required by the Clean Water Act must pay ...

A suction-dredge gold miner from California who operated in an Idaho river containing federally protected salmon and steelhead without permits required by the Clean Water Act must pay $150,000, a ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new permit and rules for recreational miners who use small-scale suction dredging equipment to explore for gold in rivers and ...

A federal court has upheld an environmental law that protects fish habitat from a certain type of gold mining in Oregon rivers and streams. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed ...

the legislation brings Washington into line with other Western states that in recent years have banned or severely restricted the recreational sucking up of river sediments in hopes of finding ...

A bill that restricts motorized mining in salmon and trout streams advanced in the Oregon Senate Wednesday evening. Senate Bill 838 would place a five-year moratorium on suction dredge mining, the ...

This might be news to city slickers, but down in southwest Oregon there's still plenty of gold in them thar rivers. Dave McCracken, founder and president of The New 49'ers Prospecting Association, ...