Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• EPA scaling back basin plan

  April 15, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 A controversial plan to install a plastic liner along 10 miles of the Coeur d’Alene River’s south fork probably will be scrapped. By lining the stream, the U.S. Environmental Protection … 17

• Mining firm pays $6.8 million for N. Idaho pollution

  February 15, 2011 in Idaho A big mining company whose activities polluted North Idaho’s Silver Valley must pay federal, state and tribal governments nearly $6.8 million in a settlement over natural resource damages. 9

• Zanetti Brothers agrees to share of basin cleanup

  January 6, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 One of the Silver Valley’s oldest family-run companies has reached a $200,000 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over Superfund cleanup of historic mine waste. Zanetti Brothers Inc. will …

• County urges ‘dialogue’ on repository

  April 24, 2007 in Idaho on Page B3 The Kootenai County Commission urged the state and a local highway district Monday to have better communication about a plan to dump mine waste near Cataldo, Idaho, but the county …