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BOULDER — In an out-of-the-way hot-spring pond just outside of Boulder, a century-old colony of tropical fish known for their appetite for mosquitoes is giving health officials another way to combat ...

Sep. 7—An overabundance of a wetland plant is wreaking havoc at a freshwater marsh pond in northern San Rafael. The dense vegetation in the 20-acre pond managed by the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary ...