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Casper Star-Tribune
2d ago
The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana. The pachyderm broke through a fence and stopped noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before eventually being loaded back ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
2d ago
The dying words of an Oregon man who had an asbestos-linked cancer are being replayed in a federal courtroom for a jury hearing a wrongful death case against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway. Attorneys for the estates of Thomas Wells and ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
4d ago
A quarter-century ago, the Justice Department had few meaningful relationships with Native American tribes. The recently retired longtime director of the department’s Office of Tribal Justice says the federal government worked with state and local police and courts, but tribal ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
6d ago
Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on federal lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule from the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule finalized Friday raises ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
6d ago
The fight over a newly revived 1864 Arizona law criminalizing abortion throughout pregnancy unless a woman's life is at risk has engulfed the state's lawmakers. The Arizona Legislature devolved into jeering Wednesday as Republican lawmakers shut down discussion on a ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
1w ago
Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion. In 2024, the question could be put before voters in yet more ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
1w ago
Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth. Their lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles county court names the companies responsible for Instagram, Snap, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
1w ago
An attorney for two people who died of a rare lung cancer is urging a jury to hold BNSF Railway responsible for pollution in a small Montana town near the U.S.-Canada border. Thousands of people have been exposed to toxic ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
1w ago
Jury selection has begun in a lawsuit against BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos from a vermiculite mine. For decades, the W.R ..read more
Casper Star-Tribune
1w ago
It's been almost 25 years since federal authorities, responding to news reports of deaths and illnesses, descended on the small northwestern Montana town of Libby to clean it up. Now, some asbestos victims and their family members are seeking to ..read more