AP - The fevered battle over a 57-year-old Jesus statue at a northwest Montana ski resort escalated Wednesday with a new lawsuit arguing the Forest Service needs to boot the relic from its mountaintop perch.
AP - If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.
AP - State-by-state listing of violations cited by Department of Interior to energy companies drilling for oil and gas on public lands, February 1998 to February. 2011.
LiveScience.com - The La Niña that helped fuel some of the wild weather over the past year may die down again this spring, after a brief fall comeback, government climatologists announced today (Feb. 9).
AP - A major bill to impose a fee on natural-gas drilling in Pennsylvania and toughen regulations over the booming industry is on its way to Gov. Tom Corbett's desk.