For decades, many residents of Eastern Oregon’s Morrow and Umatilla counties have relied on well water contaminated by nitrates, chemicals linked to cancers and thyroid disease — and especially ...

For years, Oregon state agencies, local governments and committees have hashed and rehashed plans to clean up a decades-long nitrates pollution problem in northern Morrow and Umatilla counties. While ...

Roughly 60 million Americans may be drinking tap water with nitrate levels that exceed health-protective benchmarks, ...

Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family ...

The architects of a water and soil program in Olmsted County say it has made a huge impact in reducing nitrate levels in watersheds and will continue to do so as more farmers join the initiative. Just ...

LANESBORO, Minn. — Five speakers gave their varied — yet sometimes overlapping — perspectives on groundwater, nitrates and a potential health crisis in Southeast Minnesota on Thursday night, Nov. 16, ...

ST. PAUL (WKBT) -- Minnesota health officials say nitrate contamination is all too common in Winona, Houston and Fillmore County groundwater. Minnesota's Department of Agriculture reported that more ...