Oregon tries new tack in fight against meth
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More states consider limiting access to cold medicines that are used to create methamphetamines.
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A new suspect has been named in Daniel Smith case:  methadone.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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By Laura Griffith, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Sep. 7--Illinois is taking the fight against methamphetamines to the manufacturing level with a grant program meant to heighten security and safety measures at anhydrous ammonia facilities.
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The 14th-ranked Oregon Ducks came to the desert aiming to prove their controversial victory over Oklahoma two weeks ago was no fluke. Mission accomplished.
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By Laura Oppenheimer, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Sep. 4--Parks supporters will make the case this fall that drinking clean  water, trekking through the forest and watching animals play are as valuable  as traditional government services competing for money on Portland-area  ballots.
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WICHITA, Kan. &#151; It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves red-handed, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
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SALEM, Ore.  A dead crow in Oregon&#39;s remote southeast corner brought the news: The West Nile virus had arrived in Oregon, previously among the last states to be free of it.
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Rescue teams equipped with ice axes, ropes and other high-altitude gear were once again frustrated Tuesday in their efforts since the weekend to find three climbers on Oregon's highest mountain. After battling high winds and blowing snow, search teams broke for the day without success.
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More than 200 firefighters from Arizona and Oregon joined the fight Thursday against a group of fast-growing wildfires in southeastern Washington, and officials said they still need more help.
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Oregon's defense didn't get a chance to test itself against one of the premier scorers in the nation, but the way the 22nd-ranked Ducks played on offense, it's hard to imagine it would have made much of a difference.
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n the wake of a new study showing increased drug use, the hunt continues for the elusive -- more likely impossible -- prevention strategy that will keep Canadians straight and sober.
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By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News  A cadre of concerned residents and politicians wants to clean up Salt Lake County's air problem now, and they're finding that reaching a solution to such a widespread problem is no easy task.
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By Doug Smeath Deseret Morning News  Rocky Anderson is taking his fight for a more eco-friendly Salt Lake City to a new enemy: bottled water.
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Drug stores will have to start locking up common cold medicines that contain chemicals used to make methamphetamine and limiting sales of those medicines to two at a time under a bill Gov.
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SALEM, Ore.   Accusations of dirty tricks are rare in Oregon politics, but Ralph Nader&#39;s presidential campaign has sparked charges and countercharges between his campaign and backers of Democratic nominee John Kerry.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  May 30--GRANITE CITY -- A man who scampered out a back door during a police raid was still running Tuesday from Granite City police and a charge of making methamphetamine, a police spokesman said.