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(Springfield-jm) – Governor J-B Pritzker and Democratic leadership say a deal has been reached on a new state budget. The fiscal year 24 spending plan is similar to the one the Governor propose...

Snowmelt resulting from last winter’s record snowpack has caused more extreme river conditions, increasing the risk for people recreating in them.

The last time Colorado’s river basins swelled with above-average spring snowpacks in 2019, 12 people died in Colorado’s rivers and creeks.

As energy companies shift away from burning coal to generate electricity, many are leaving behind toxic waste that could endanger public health and the environment for years to come. New regulations proposed by the Biden administration would expand the number of coal ash dumps subject to federal oversight, a change intended to prevent spills that during the past decade wreaked havoc near power plants in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Authorities have identified the Sacramento County resident who was swept into the American River last month while visiting Auburn with friends.

As energy companies shift away from burning coal to generate electricity, many are leaving behind toxic waste that could endanger public health and the environment for years to come.

As energy companies shift away from burning coal to generate electricity, many are leaving behind toxic waste that could endanger public health and the environment for years to come. New regulations proposed by the Biden administration would expand the number of coal ash dumps subject to federal oversight, a change intended to prevent spills that during the past decade wreaked havoc near power plants in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Spring is a time when ranchers began to gather cattle off the range and brand the calves before turning them out on summer pasture. Today with fenced pastures, it is easier to gather cattle than it was in the late 1800s in Wyoming. Much of Wyoming was still open range, and the spring roundup was a b

One of the sites that would come under federal oversight is the Waukegan Generating Station on Lake Michigan, a former ComEd coal plant ringed by two unlined ash ponds and an unlicensed landfill.

This is part two of the history of the pioneer era of Burmis.