The layoffs of thousands of miners in Chiatura, Georgia, ought to be big news in a country of under four million people. But ...

In his mining history column for Mining the West magazine, UNR mining history professor Eric Nystrom looks at the history of ...

More than 130 recently-fired federal employees in Alaska have applied for state unemployment benefits in recent weeks, amid efforts from the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency ...

ALASKA SLED DOG RACE ANIMAL HANDLERS VETERINARIAN CHECK NOME, Alaska — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won ...

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska ...

Rolling in on another parking mystery! 🚛 A motel calls in a tow, but there's no clear info—abandoned, illegally parked, or ...

The law appropriated nearly $3.8 billion over 15 years to clean up abandoned mines like this one in Pennsylvania. Last year, his property was listed as one of the first abandoned mine cleanups in the ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania hiker had followed his dog off a mountain trail this week when he glanced toward a deep coal pit below and saw a tail move near a pile of rocks. Collin Leiby, an ...

These two approaches focus not on starting from scratch but on repurposing and enhancing the wealth of existing abandoned oil wells and gas infrastructure. Apollo’s HOP2 program transforms ...

Another industry besides fishing has weighed in on how Pebble mine -- a proposed copper-gold-molybdenum mine ... A new study by University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers highlights the strong and ...

- It will take many years and many millions of dollars simply to manage and not even remove the toxic wastewater from an abandoned mine that unleashed a 100-mile-long torrent of heavy metals into ...