"A treaty more than 150 years old shields tribal businesses from Washington state's gas tax, the Supreme Court ruled today."

"A growing number of cities are looking beyond the usual 100-year floodplain and requiring more homes to be built higher for their own protection. "

UPDATE: "All tank fires extinguished at ITC facility in Deer Park" (ABC 13) [15]

"Faced with reservoirs less than half full along the Colorado River, federal authorities and negotiators for Colorado and six other Western states on Tuesday finalized a landmark plan to share the burden of voluntarily using less water as growing cities and warming temperatures deplete the supply for 40 million people."

"A jury in the first federal court trial of thousands of lawsuits by cancer victims against the manufacturer of the world’s most widely used herbicide found Tuesday that Monsanto’s Roundup was a likely cause of a Sonoma County man’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma."

"Spring has arrived in Southern California and with it a crisis has blossomed in the small city of Lake Elsinore, where tens of thousands of visitors have flocked to see a “superbloom” of poppies in a desert canyon."