Greg Abrahamson News Today

SPOKANE, Wash. – Uranium mines were an economic driver for the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Decades later, an onslaught of cancer cases has left a complicated legacy surrounding the mines.

Originally published Oct. 27 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.

In June of 1940, Native American tribes from across the Northwest gathered at Kettle Falls in northeast Washington to mourn the loss of their historic fishing grounds.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration agreed Thursday, Sept. 21, to spend more than $200 million to fully fund Native tribes’ plans to reintroduce salmon in the Upper Columbia River

Dams had blocked salmon’s passage, driving them toward extinction and violating tribal fishing rights. The money will fully fund Native tribes’ plans to bring fish back to the region.

The federal government will devote more than $200 million over the next 20 years toward restoring salmon in the Upper Columbia River basin under an agreement signed Thursday. The agreement …

Those living just yards away from the shootout are grateful more people didn't die. Bullets from the gunman were flying everywhere — including the walls of several houses off 25th Street South.