(USCG Photo taken by Petty Officer 3rd Class Wes Shinn) The body of a man missing has been found after a dredge capsized near Nome last week, but another body is still missing. Searchers found the ...

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has authorized IPOP LLC to continue using a six-inch suction dredge in Safety Sound, east of Nome, as it seeks to move forward with a potential project.

NOME -- Last year around this time ... to have a 300-foot buffer for suction dredges around set gill nets and a one-mile buffer around anadromous streams from the time the ice moves out to ...

FISHERIES – Angling groups asked Washington lawmakers to enact restrictions on suction dredge mining in state waters during a legislative hearing in Olympia last week. Prospectors using suction ...

The controversy is about a process called suction dredge mining, a practice popularized on the Discovery Channel show "Bering Sea Gold" but banned for the last four years in California ...

Because state wildlife officials narrowed state rules to define a suction dredge as a hose, motor and sluice box, miners are simply removing the sluice box — an alteration that leaves dredge spoils ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.— A San Bernardino County Superior Court judge ruled today against an attempt by the mining community to start suction dredge mining in California waterways this summer. Suction ...