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Alaska state troopers nailed an Alaska reality TV star on four misdemeanor hunting violations Tuesday after a lengthy legal battle.

A federal appeals court today threw out a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-approved fine against a government power marketing agency for violating reliability standards, ruling that the law doesn't allow monetary penalties to be assessed against federal entities.

After years of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tourism is on the upswing as jungle safaris bring tourists extremely close to silverback gorillas.

"Jackass" star Steve-O has admitted to changing a freeway sign in San Diego from "Sea World Drive" to "Sea World Sucks" with a poster and tape earlier this year.

Heavy rainfall in north-central Washington state caused flash flooding and mudslides that stranded drivers and closed major highways yesterday evening.

The National Park Service will begin a three-year study to determine whether grizzly bears should be moved into the North Cascade Mountains in Washington state, the agency said yesterday.

More than a dozen California water districts from Sacramento to Santa Barbara have banned, or at least limited, the filling of swimming pools as a record drought ravages water supplies.

Mexican authorities have arrested three suspects with more than 10,000 eggs harvested from protected sea turtles in the state of Oaxaca, according to the Attorney General for Environmental Protection.

Coral larvae and fish looking for new homes are able to sniff out and avoid areas degraded by overfishing, pollution or other problems, according to research published yesterday in the journal Science.

The Obama administration is working to avoid potential litigation and to alleviate a lot of ill will from New Mexican ranchers, signaling this week that it's willing in some cases to back away from restricting livestock on large federal grazing allotments to protect an endangered mouse.

An environmental group has warned the Interior Department that it plans to sue over the department's failure to protect an endangered bird from threats posed by commercial-scale solar power projects in the California and Arizona deserts.

The League of Conservation Voters injected another $400,000 into the battle for Michigan's open Senate seat, announcing a new television spot today that links Republican nominee Terri Lynn Land with the billionaire GOP donors David and Charles Koch.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pressing for more information on the complaint process against inspectors general.

Legislation aimed at prodding a Silicon Valley billionaire to allow beach access near his $32.5 billion property is headed to the California governor's desk.

An environmental watchdog group is accusing the Army Corps of Engineers of undermapping hundreds of acres of wetlands on a plot of land eyed for development in southeastern Virginia.

PECOS, Texas -- Fueled by the oil and gas boom, this town of 9,000 is one of the fastest-growing in the nation.

The Forest Service this week decided to move ahead with its Big Thorne old-growth logging project in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a move backed strongly by Alaska's ailing timber industry but opposed by conservation and recreation advocates.

U.S. EPA sent a long-overdue final rule setting the 2014 renewable fuel standard to the White House today for interagency review.

What do photos of an inquisitive burrowing owl, a swooping bald eagle and an alpenglow mountain sunset have in common? They're putting the Interior Department on the social media map.

At least 25 miners died last week in the second collapse at a Canadian-owned gold mining site in the Central African Republic in less than two years.

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