Aug. 15—A petition submitted by Lincoln County commissioners to ease selenium standards in Lake Koocanusa met resistance at a public meeting held by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality on ...

Jun. 6—Nearly 300 anglers competed in the 2025 Lake Koocanusa Fishing Derby. The winners of the 21st Annual Fishing Derby, held May 17-18 at Koocanusa Resort and Marina, display their catches. Wendy ...

Koocanusa Reservoir north of the Libby Dam. (Image courtesy U.S. Forest Service) Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality on Tuesday denied a petition to weaken Lake Koocanusa’s standard for ...

Environmental groups in Montana and Idaho are defending a water quality standard Montana adopted in 2020 by suing a quasi-judicial board that’s spent the past year trying to invalidate it. The lawsuit ...

HELENA, Mont. — A Republican lawmaker from Libby on Wednesday spoke on behalf of a bill that seeks to strike the existing water quality standard for selenium in Lake Koocanusa and double the limit.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Officials in Lincoln County are asking the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to ease ...

Montana's Department of Environmental Quality and a Canadian coal mining company whose toxic runoff flows into Montana continue to battle over limits on selenium found in the waters of Lake Koocanusa.

A pair of Canadian environmental organizations have asked Canadian regulators to consider several issues that could throw a wrench in a major coal mine sale north of the Montana border. The request ...

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