The Kootenai River Network will host two public meetings this month to discuss water quality in Lake Koocanusa. The United States Environmental Protection Agency and Geological Survey recently ...

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 ...

We have listened intently for over a year as State regulators imposed a new, very stringent site-specific water quality standard for selenium in Lake Koocanusa, while reassuring those who live here ...

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 ...

KALISPELL, Mont. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is backing a proposal by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a new selenium standard for Lake Koocanusa and the Kootenai ...

After more than a decade of pressure from tribal nations in the United States and Canada, and more recent pressure from U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and the federal government, Canada has agreed to join the U ...

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.

Tell someone you spent a glorious, sunny week at Lake Koocanusa and you might be met with a blank stare. How the 145-kilometre long lake remains so relatively unknown is a head-scratcher. Hiding in ...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) - Following years of rigorous scientific study by a multitude of state and federal agencies, Montana environmental regulators adopted a new water quality standard aimed at ...

LIBBY, Mont. — The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office located the body of a missing man in Lake KoocanusaWednesday afternoon. The body was identified as 47-year-old Johnathan Orr. According to Sheriff ...

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 ...

MISSOULA – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted a new standard for selenium waste in Montana’s Kootenai River and Koocanusa Reservoir last Thursday, after the Legislature dropped plans to ...