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 ...

An Indian tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen are battling in court against gold miners who want to suck the precious metal out of riverbeds in California in a process known as suction ...

While a total of nine dredges scoured bedrock gold in the Blue River area, only five worked at one time, during 1917 and 1918. The powerful Tonopah Placers Company dominated area dredging at that time ...

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 ...