SACRAMENTO, Calif.— A coalition including environmental organizations, fishermen and the Karuk tribe submitted a formal petition to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife today asking the ...

Mike Telgenhoff moves a hose around in the near freezing water of Crow Creek in Girdwood, Alaska, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, as he works with a suction dredge looking for gold. (AP Photo/Al Grillo) ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. judge in Idaho has rejected a California man’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by an environmental group alleging he did suction dredging for gold in Idaho ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.— A California court has once again ruled that all forms of suction dredge mining are banned throughout California, rejecting a temporary restraining order on the ban in Siskiyou ...

A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court protects Idaho rivers from what conservation groups say are harmful mining practices. The justices rejected a petition to review a case in which a California ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A conservation group has filed a federal lawsuit contending a miner in Idaho is ignoring environmental laws and encouraging unpermitted mining by other gold seekers. In its citizen ...

YREKA, Calif. (CN) - Suction-dredge miners claim in court that California has effectively banned the "the only practicable method" of taking "commercially significant amounts of gold" from rivers. The ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — 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 ...

The California Department of Fish and Game has completed the first round of environmental review documents related to the state’s currently suspended Suction Dredge Permitting Program. The draft ...