Hailey was a bustling town of 3,500 people, 18 saloons, five newspapers and dusty streets crowded with merchants, gamblers and miners when Idaho's first Episcopal bishop, Daniel Tuttle, stepped off a stagecoach in 1881.

COEUR DALENE, Idaho----Hecla Mining Company today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell securities to selected institutional investors for aggregate gross proceeds of $21 million.

RENO, Nev. -- Documentation of an "impressive" number of steps being taken to save the sage grouse from extinction may be enough to keep the bird off the U.S. list of protected species despite significant loss of its habitat to wildfires across much of the West in recent years, a top Interior Department official said.

Silver Falcon Mining, Inc. announces its readiness to become a gold and silver producer at its mill in Melba, Idaho.

COEUR DALENE, Idaho----Hecla Mining Company today announced it has been notified by its banking group the mine plan is satisfactory. Accepting the mine plan confirms the bridge loan maturity date of February 16, 2009.

Logging planned in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in southwestern Montana would put owls at risk, say two groups who sued the U.S. Forest Service in an attempt to block the project.

A forest-thinning project near Philipsburg threatens owl habitat and should be reconsidered, a pair of conservation groups said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Missoula.

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Tue, Dec 9, 2008 (7:21 a.m.) New statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau show Elko County has the highest median family income in Nevada, thanks to the mining industry.

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