Over 40 years since Butte became a national Superfund site, efforts to clean up harmful mining chemicals like lead continue.

Daily served in the Legislature from 1979 to 1995, championing environmental causes there, and never let up on a relentless ...

The World Museum of Mining received about $245,000 in grants and donations from the Town Pump Charitable Foundation to ...

Copper prices soar above $6 per pound, creating record profits for Butte's mining operations as electric vehicle demand and ...

BUTTE - A class action lawsuit involving Montana Resource’s water contamination incident in August is expected to go into ...

Butte and Anaconda have been selected to co-host the 2008 National Summit of Mining Communities. The event, which will be held Sept. 7-11, will attract elected officials, leaders and industry people ...

Montana’s highest court upheld the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation permit for the Black Butte Copper Mine. Now the project can proceed as planned. Montana Trout Unlimited, one of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Earlier this month, mining company Montana Resources discovered that a fire hydrant hooked up to ...

BUTTE, Mont. – Paige Layne was several weeks into her new job as a security guard – standing watch outside the civic center in her hometown of Butte, Montana – when she found out exactly what it was ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BUTTE — A class-action lawsuit was filed Monday in Butte-Silver Bow District Court against ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Tech’s Native Plant Program is inviting the public to take part in a community planting on Sunday, Sept. 28, from noon to 4:30 p.m. The event will be held at Buffalo Street ...