rivers and streams

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' highest court ruled Wednesday that Nicaragua violated Costa Rica's territorial sovereignty by establ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Investigators are blaming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is dismissing complaints by Republican lawmakers that her agency downplayed the seri...

MOUNT BAKER, Wash. (AP) — Mauri Pelto digs his crampons into the steep icy slope on Mount Baker in Washington state and watches as streams of water ca...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — The latest in the Colorado mine spill (all times local): 11:17 a.m. New Mexico's environment secretary is criticizing Colorado's...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — The latest in the Colorado mine spill (all times local): 11:03 a.m. Colorado and federal officials are at odds over whether it's...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Russell Begaye stared at the yellow water that keeps pouring out of a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, racing down a ...

DENVER (AP) — A million-gallon mine waste spill that sent a plume of orange-ish muck down a river in southwest Colorado on Thursday was caused by a fe...